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What do you think is New Zealand's most hated car? And why is it the Nissan Cube?

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be in yourself, buckle greetings, welcome. Could a Marcus
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(00:31):
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That's my promise. We'll just put some talk around that. Also.
That's me until midnight tonight. If it's really important to
breaking news, there will be a breaking news sing. Then
I'll tell you what the big news is, such as life. Anyway,
just before I cut into it, I'll tell you what's

(00:51):
frustrating me at the moment. There is an ad in
the commercial. You know when you hear an ad like
the Whiteitomo woman singing well, the one I can't work
out the voices and added that last voice break. I
don't know if it's playing nationwide. I just where I
hear it here it and the guy says, okay, wood
Fire Pizza. We have pepperoni with extra pepperoni for Tony
and Rocket and pairfect clear so good ed, well written.

(01:13):
Who's the voice because I'm thinking it's Move Smith, but
it can't be Becau it's two reconces he dies. Anyone
knows who that has? Let me know. Every time I
hear who was that? It's extremely well voice acted. Do
you say voice actor or just say acted for commercial?
I don't know extremely well voice acted anyway. I'm just

(01:35):
putting that out there if youone knows who that voice is.
But the last ten times of who was that voice? Anyway,
I probably could ring the edge of advertising people that
put those together. I thought you might know. I get
in touch. My name's Marcus. Welcome head twelve until on
tonight Tonight, tonight, first up, I got two topics tonight,

(02:00):
two topic Thursday. Oh there'd be more because I'll tell
you what. When it comes to topics, sometimes you think
you've got a one topic Night can't get more than
one call on a topic. Other night you think you've
got a forty topic. Night needs one thing happens, and
it goes and runs with it all night. Impossible to predict.
I think I think your screens might be back to

(02:20):
front there, Denimal. I'm looking at you on the on
the far side. Anyway, get in touch Marcus to him
at night. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
First question for you, and I don't know the answer
to this. So the cyber truck, Tisla's cyber truck, right,
Tisla's cyber truck has become the world's most hated car,

(02:47):
there's no doubt about that. And the sheares are through
the floor, and the owners want Musk to go because
he's tanking the company. But here's a question for you.
Putting the cyber truck aside because you can't buy them
in New Zealand and for that we should be grateful.
I think they passed the safe the test because it's
all kind of solid aluminum. But here's a question for you.

(03:13):
What would be New Zealand's most hated car? What would
it be? I've never had a real strong reaction towards
a car. There's some of those people with money that
drive around and flesh cars. I think, what's the point
do you want people to look at you, but what

(03:33):
would use it most hated CARBI. I don't think I
can answer that. I don't think I've got a strong opinion. Peter,
Marcus welcome, Hang on, Peter, Yeah it's Marcus there.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, that voice is Ian Mune.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah you might be right. I think you're right.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah is he?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Is he actually acting in it on the TV?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh that's perfect.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
That's a poor rest home.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh that's why it's so well voice acted because actually
really is acting in it. Okay, that's perfect. That's that's
my night. Sort anyway, that's that gone, so sort of
course it's m Mune. I thought it seemed like Meve
Smith and the our some were looking so I could
probably picture Immune as well. Oh, well done in I mean,
that's a great performance. Rock and pair for clear, tremendously written,

(04:34):
with tremendous pauses New Zealand's most hated car. I'm trumping
over time and over history because even those new brands
of Chinese cars like the Great Wall, people got to
love them quite quickly, didn't we. I don't know what
a car that's come through that's really polarized us. I

(04:56):
know the Ford and the Holden people hate each other.
But that's a material now, because I don't think the
holders exist anymore, do they. Oh, the people say, oh,
it's not a hold it's an opal vector out of Europe.
People love to say that, don't they. Craig Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Yeah. I think Tiesla. Tesla has a lot a lot
of cars in Tesla. Do's very wolves as cars, believe
it or not. Yeah, he does very well, very well.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
So before Tesla, what when you're in in his most
hated carby.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
Most car, I wouldn't know. I've never driven, but Tesla
is a nice car.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
You don't drive, No, I've never driven.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Amal lives.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Wow, you got a bike and I'm I'm.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Coming up sixteen and I'll tell you what. I've never
driven all my lives. But Tesla for their lovely car.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, that we're sort of moving beyond testa. The question was,
I know that Tesla's America's most hated car, but what
would be the most hated car in New Zealand. It's
kind of what the question was. We'll go that will
stick with it. Eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nineteen
nine to de text, of course a Dean me. I
feel silly asking that was a TV commercial as well.

(06:15):
Oh well, people say most hated car is a Lada
or the Holden Captiva.

Speaker 8 (06:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Wow, someone thought it was a guy that did the
sausage air that thought it was Lee Hart Dion Dion
Dion Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus, Hi Din.

Speaker 9 (06:41):
I was going to say, I know this is a
bit kind of almost off topic, but I'd say that
book on public transport would be the most hated form
of transport.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wow. Wow, Maybe I didn't frame the topic that well.
But most people are you a bus catcher or you
hate buses?

Speaker 9 (07:04):
I do, I do, no, no, I catch buses, but
I also drive. I was going to say Tesla as
a vehicle, but that could be jealousy as well.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
H but putting Tesla aside, Okay, so you hate buses
because I don't turn up.

Speaker 9 (07:21):
I have worked for Ukham Transport as a person who
took complaints about Ukham Transport, left there as a person
who didn't catch transport then and now I do sometimes
catch transport and find myself complaining. So that's quite interesting.

Speaker 10 (07:43):
But I mean, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yep, you were young to be excellently pushing the button
as you when you're on the phone.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
I wasn't.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I heard a beep.

Speaker 9 (07:55):
Though, must have come from an alien invasion, because there's
nothing around here that went deep unless I swore no.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I think yeah, with your ear you pressed anyway, that's
a material. I was going to say thank you for
your service with the complaints for all transport. Most of
us didn't think they had a complaints line that was answered.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
It was this.

Speaker 9 (08:21):
This was mainly emails.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Though do you want to hear you? Do you want
to hear your beep?

Speaker 9 (08:26):
D on, go ahead and find myself complaining. So that's
quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
But do you hear that.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I did?

Speaker 9 (08:37):
And I'll tell you. My phone is about a foot
away from my old speak really from my face, and
my fingers are around my phone, so there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
But it's a lender. Is it a leadline or a
cell phone?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Cell phone?

Speaker 9 (08:52):
I'm sitting sitting in a sip of my car park
and I say that my phone might have been hacked.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
You could be right nice to talk. Well, talk about
beat denial. Someone says the scot of someone says the hummer.
You go a long time before you see a hummer.
I'll tell you on here's something I like, Marcus. Most
hated car would have to be the Austin Princess. What
a pig. That was ugly looking car. I'd back that up.

(09:20):
Someone says for most people, the most hated police carr
is the most hated carry is the police car. I
read that badly. I read the punchline too soon. Matthew Marcus,
welcome home.

Speaker 11 (09:29):
Ifhew good a Marcus, I reckon the Ford Taurus is
up there.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'll have to do I'll have to google imagstry it's
I think I hate it by the sounds.

Speaker 11 (09:41):
It's a sedan. They tried to sort of stretch it,
but it looks it's just wrong on so many levels.
And then second car would be the Leaf.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
What about here's one for you're just looking at the
Taurists now right.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Right?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh yeah, flip, what.

Speaker 11 (10:01):
Is that D D A U r US taus it
was I'm trying to get I don't know, receive it.
I don't know. It looks it's awful. It's an awful car.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
What about the Cargo? You've seen one of those terrible?

Speaker 11 (10:19):
Isn't that a snail?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, but there's a car called the Cargo, which is
sort of like it's like a bad, boxy looking Volkswagen
and listen is cargo that's what it is. You ever
see one of those?

Speaker 11 (10:33):
No, I'll google it when I'll get off. When I
get off the phone, I'll have look.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Text me James, Marcus, welcome, good James, thank you?

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Do you do you have a producer on this? Marcus?
There's just you and the office, just me.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
I put on a different voice. I put on a
different voice way out to the phones.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
I was noticing that stitch job you did before on
the rail when you played the guys uh talk.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
And you can do that, yeah, or you just record
stuff and play it back. But I can't because people
do that beep? Can you do that beep? Push one
of your what are you on a cell phone? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Did that come through?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah? So he did that. He pretended he didn't. They pour,
it's normally. It's normally people in bed on landlines and
they roll over onto the phone or something.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah. You ever thought of it working around as a soundboard,
put some sound effects in.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, but that yeah, that that's about nineties.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
It's a big chimmicky yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, ooh, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I was gonna I was gonna pipe in the Nissan Cube.
Terrible looking cat.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh what's that one? That is cargo or then the sact?
The cube is that and not even symmetrical?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Right, there's there's no there's no shape to it.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's not symmetrical. It looks terrible at the backside of it,
doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
The cube is a symmetrical I thought it was. I
thought it was.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
If you look at the back of it, right.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Let me look, I haven't seen her in a few years.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
If you look at the back of it, the window
comes down and around the corner with no back window pillar.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Ah, all right, Oh that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
It's the an unsymmetricle car is terrible.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Okay, I got the winner.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
You've driven it.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
No, my friend had at Come.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
On, friends don't let friends drive this and cubes? What
sort of a florist?

Speaker 10 (12:39):
What?

Speaker 12 (12:39):
What?

Speaker 4 (12:39):
What was my friend?

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah? I mean what would they Why would they have
in the same cube X frame and need a cube?
Must have won in a bit?

Speaker 10 (12:50):
Did he.

Speaker 12 (12:52):
He liked it?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Really?

Speaker 13 (12:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (12:55):
I loved it for what reason?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Looking well, I know he had it for years.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'll I'll do what I always do when I find
something I hate I'll google Miss and Cube tattoo. There's
always some clown that's gone and got the world's worst
thing tattoo. Hey, don't there be anyone that doesn't there
anyone that there's there's one there. It is a this
and cube tattoo. Flip. Look at that.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Set right on the that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
You seeing that as well? I'm liking you. You go
along with me on the jay. We'll put that on Facebook.
You think of something bad and is there a tattoo there?
You go there, this and cube tattoo. That's amazing. Give
you a hundred bucks if you get that down tourer bucks. Okay,

(13:47):
there we go. We're gonna get ourselves involved with something now.
Three ound of bucks to get in This and Cube tattoo,
I think probably need to be looks terrible Miss and
Cube tattoo from Yeah, you can't really see the whole
roll of the this is Someone says on Twitter, could

(14:10):
you see me a bit of the full tattoo? I
want to get a cube tattoo. It's so sick well,
I think they say sick. I think that means actually
it doesn't make you feel slightly unwell. Leonard's Marcus Hello, I.

Speaker 14 (14:24):
Have to agree with the caller before you. Definitely the
missing tube and to top that would be the Hondis
Shuttle in the late eighties came out.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I want to have a look at the Honda Shuttle.
But part of me wonders what goes through someone's mind
before they buy a Honda Cube. What would you be thinking?

Speaker 14 (14:49):
Yeah, okay, yes, sorry, a missing tube? Yes, I really
don't know. I had a friend that had one and
she bought it because her mother bought it for it
because she was broke.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh yeah, well yeah, okay.

Speaker 14 (15:03):
Yeah, and the most stelling cat ever. And I'm in
Macca fees now and I tuned heads at the time
with Eric seban in.

Speaker 15 (15:12):
The pop up lights.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
But you love the pop up lights?

Speaker 14 (15:17):
Yeah, and nothing beats that back in the eighties. That
was just extreme to see one of those, you know,
flying down the street.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
What you had the Honda shuttle come out?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh, it looks terrible shades, It looks terrible looks.

Speaker 13 (15:37):
They were the first new little.

Speaker 14 (15:39):
Car terrible after the money, after the money, cheap as creepers.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
I reckon the reason you'd buy in this and Cumberlin right, yeah,
no one would steal it.

Speaker 14 (15:56):
Good point, not like the Daimy is it is it?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yea yeah for rem orates, I think, but you're not
going to ramorate in one of those. And no, yeah,
no one's going to steal that. You're good to go.
And that's my take on that one New Zealand's worst
car or the most hated car. We're not talking the
police car oh eight, one hundred and eighty Teddy and
nineteen nine text No Lines Free, Marcus. The most hated

(16:27):
car of the nineties ripoff would have been the Honda
Prelude aka Russ Bucket, especially if the owner live near
the Salty Sea sprays, which escalated the rust. But the
ugliest car ever design even above the lard, has to
be a Purple Princess from the seventies. Ugliest car has
to be a Ford Multiplier, Marcus. I had a tourists

(16:52):
for quite a few years. Great k you could leave
the Keyser anywhere you went and no one would steal it.
A lot of votes for the list and Tilda Marcus
nice talked earlier and now I have been hacked based
on you playing the beat that I physically could not

(17:13):
know not have done. Dion Well, I reckon you did
do it down because I didn't do it. I don't
touch anything a not aloud Marcus anything convertible. Kiwis hate
convertibles and the morons that drive them. I agree with that.
If I see someone driving a convertible, I think less
of them. I think, really, what's going wrong for you?

(17:37):
The only one thing worse than convertible cars? It's people
in southm that have convertible cars. I'm thinking, really, and
that's optimism. Although today has been beautiful, Paul Marcus, good evening,
I might have sail you good. Thank you, Paul Good.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Hey Nien Duke with a D D d uk. Yeah,
Nissen Duke.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Is it a current car?

Speaker 16 (18:08):
I've been around for a while, but yeah, they're really
ugly as once.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Honestly, I've actually think i've been in I can't say who,
but I've been.

Speaker 10 (18:18):
In one, okay, Jude.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, the bright colors and sort of quirky panels and
cramped in the.

Speaker 16 (18:26):
Back yet and the lights on the front looked like Friday's.
And it's got too metta around like down the bottom.

Speaker 17 (18:32):
Minute they're about squashed up at the back.

Speaker 16 (18:35):
It's all squashed up at the back and it's like, yeah,
I wouldn't even drive one of those of somebody gave
me a million backs.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Really, it'd be nice to do that for you, Paul,
Thank you, Brenda Marcus, welcome Hi now.

Speaker 18 (18:48):
The the best of the time, but the worst car
to ever get your licensance. When I was sixteen, which
I now seventy three, was a see it, five hundred
of them beener Wow manual, no synchronicity in the gears.

(19:11):
You had to double the clutch to go down the
gears and the real rear wheels cantered inwards, so going
round the corner was a little.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Bit tricky, cheapest.

Speaker 18 (19:30):
It's only saving grace was that it had a sun roof,
which was a vinyl a bit of the roof that
folded back, and that was its only saving grace because
it was the only tower on the road at the time.
In the sun roof, if.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
You shut your eyes, could you still remember all the
gears were.

Speaker 18 (19:54):
Oh absolutely, I could still double the clutch today.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Five gear with a reverse down below the fifth gear,
isn't it No?

Speaker 18 (20:04):
It had no It had four gears in reviews, but
when you went to change down gears you had to
double the clutch.

Speaker 19 (20:19):
You had to.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I had to say it because I've got on about this.
I don't know what double the clutching means. You're kidding, No,
I'm not kidding. Well, I kid you. I'm brave enough
to say something, and now you're mocking me.

Speaker 18 (20:32):
Well, you know when you go through the gears, they
automatically synchronize so they don't grunt when you go.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Is that what the clutch is for.

Speaker 18 (20:47):
Yes, But in the five hundred when you changed down,
the gears didn't messy, so you've had to puss on
the clutch. We have the break so that the gears
all got into nchronicity while the gears would engaged because

(21:15):
you'd press the clutch before you could move down into
the lower gear.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I don't think it's a five speed.

Speaker 20 (21:28):
Yeah, don't remember that, mate.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
I wonder someone will know, because it's one of those
things that people will have argue about to the end
of time.

Speaker 18 (21:42):
Yes, but having learned to drive in one of those
with its cantered rear wheels going inside, yeah, you can
drive just about anything.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
You wouldn't want to be in one. Now hit by
a Ford Ranger, would you afford ranger use or something?
Like that, you'd feel vero vulnerable all these giant cars
these days.

Speaker 18 (22:09):
Oh anything, anything sits by the little then in the
ben Bena to.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
How fast you get it going, Brenda?

Speaker 18 (22:20):
Oh, I think well it was miles. Then I think
I got it up to just over about eighty miles
on the motorway. But one of the great things was
because in those and then in the sixties when you
went over the.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Harbor Bridge, there were.

Speaker 18 (22:43):
Still guys meaning the tolls, and so your passenger could
stand up and hand the toll man for money.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Brilliant. Nice to hear from your Brenda. What's the guys
as mister Smiley was on the toes, were always like
to give a shout out to him as avery time
we talk about the tolls. Matt Marcus.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Welcome Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Think you met?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I'm here to stick up for the cube.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Wow? Are you the other guy's mate?

Speaker 3 (23:15):
No? I would never buy one, but didn't listen to
the great thing and they made it so the door
can open wide and you can fit a palette in
the back.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Wow, that's why every florist is in this and cube
every you know, small company that needs to pick up
the old palette here and there you can put a
palace on the back. That made it purposely and made
the wheel arches wide enough.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's probably it's probably some Japanese.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
That door opened out wide and you can put a
palace in the back.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
So it's probably some Japanese wonder car that in fact
that you know Japanese industry, there's people everywhere. They're driving
around of these because they can deliveral their goods.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Say that's right, and oh it's an amazing car. For
that reason, no one else has done it.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Would florists have a pelleted I suppose they would.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I don't know, but they always seem to be a florist.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, I'm thinking about that that guy, that guy that
had a bar, because he'd have his kigs in the back.
Probably the guy with the.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Bar, Yeah, the kigs in the back.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
What's the other thing you other side done?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Oh? I'm just saying the worst cars anything made by Austin,
apart from the many like the Princess, the Allegro. They
were just disgusting.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
What was going on there?

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (24:48):
It was.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
It was the Midlands. It was Birmingham and that's where
Austin was made.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
But you think they could have employed a designer.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, but they employed everyone. Everyone in the Midlands worked
for Austin. H oh, I don't know. They're just disgusting.
The illegro. The Princess is quite interesting because the head
a shock system which was which was amazing, so where

(25:22):
it worked it exhorbed all the bumps and the Austin
Princess was amazing. It lasted six months before one side went.
It was going on an angle for the rest of
the time.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
I remember if as a child having a having a
teacher that had an Austin Princess, and even when we
were seven or eight, we mocked them endlessly because it
was just so even as children were, and it was ugly,
like a brown color, so it was terrible.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
It was always brown. The interior was brown. Yeah. No,
they were an overly car. But there were what they
did with the with the sorry, the shocks and stuff.
Who took it on board Citrons?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
You sure it wasn't vice versa because the Citron had
beautiful hydraulics, didn't it. They use those. They use those
at race tracks to film the horse racers. They had
the cameras on them. They were that good.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's that's right as anything else was bumping up and down.
So yeah, Citran Citron took what they do on board
and made it better or vice versa.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I think we'll find out. Nice to hear from your
Matt nineteen to nine, Denine always that's always love to
hear talking when we talk about Citrons and people say
they oh, you know what they say your dB Marcus
six Paggan on their good Evening.

Speaker 10 (26:50):
I'm here to stand up for the Iticago Wow. One
stage the Little Hammers of O Tira was probably the
Fina goes. We had sex in the village? Really and.

Speaker 12 (27:14):
Where did you?

Speaker 13 (27:14):
Where?

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Did you say?

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh I thought you might be going to Okay? Had
there wrong?

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Is that right?

Speaker 11 (27:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (27:23):
And until they've driven one. Every time I drove one
of the villages ones, you end up with a smile
man face, so roomy inside and it just fun to drive.
They don't do anything special. They're just a fun car.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Why would there be so many in Otia?

Speaker 10 (27:42):
Oh, we've got the hots for them. One couple brought
two villain Christine bought theirs and they are a very
practical cab, especially for the pub. They can go into
Graymouth and really fill this thing up and there was
no shakes for speed, but it could it could hold

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a lot of produce in the back. And one of
the other villagers had two. He had to get two
to raid one to make one.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
So at that stage, were they like ten years old
or you weren't buying them new, were you?

Speaker 12 (28:18):
No?

Speaker 10 (28:18):
No, they were all sick at hand. And yeah, they
just were just.

Speaker 21 (28:24):
Sort of.

Speaker 10 (28:26):
Adopted them.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
And then and that lasted a while.

Speaker 10 (28:35):
Uh yeah, I think when the nets left died. Also
the cousmselves died quite quickly. They last behavor of rustling
out the rear door.

Speaker 17 (28:46):
Well, I didn't think that.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
I don't think that, rascals. You're so far in landed
o Tira. But I don't know. Did the salt blow
up that far?

Speaker 13 (28:51):
Did?

Speaker 10 (28:52):
It was just badly bought it and you couldn't get
a warrant. It is the warrants. It was more expensive
to get a warrant in the Also, the two rear
swing exels would go okay, hen I Gary had to
have two of them, the cannibalized one to make the

(29:12):
other one work.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, what to be just out of interest because people
will know that Bill and Christine years because they bought
the whole town. What year were you in o Tira?

Speaker 10 (29:22):
I was there from nine o nine till fourteen, I.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Think, Okay, it did five years. That's long enough, isn't
it five years?

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (29:32):
Now I would stay I should have stayed there, but
I wanted to get back on water, so I had
to move propicted.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, okay, but how many how many were you when
you were living there? How many people were living in
the in the town was it was?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
It?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Would there be fifty?

Speaker 10 (29:48):
Yeah? I was just say forty five plus or nine
to five Okay, so just depends on how many of
the rentals were occupied and people were drifted and drifted
out regularly.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Would have had a fantastic reality show that town. I
don't know why they didn't do it, but yeah, it
was pretty compelling.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
A nobody would believe it. Were you working there? Yeah,
driving trains to the tunnel.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Oh, jeepers, creepers.

Speaker 10 (30:25):
I'm a trained well, I wasn't back stage.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Jeepers, Okay, I just thought you must okay, yeah, okay, Wow.
I thought there'd be special railway houses there for people.

Speaker 11 (30:36):
These aren't.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
The village itself is all raway houses. Okay, But when
the Raways sold the village. They'd already crowded Rawah houses.
Raway houses died early when they sold everything. Yeah, but
there are no railways has no housing fluds staff through

(30:59):
heavy road.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
But I was.

Speaker 10 (31:02):
I wasn't in the Ralway's houses at the doctor's house.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
And the doctor the doctor the row.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah wow, And I could.

Speaker 10 (31:12):
Park my locomotives outside my house. My commut to work
was three minutes on my feet.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Are there's still people there? There's there's still locomote of
drivers living in a tier right to take the train
through the tunnel.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Is it right? We have to be proved.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
There were pro four some of the most of the times, relieve,
But yes there's four on on the roster at any
one time.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Wow, Okay, it's interesting. Yeah, I've got to move on.
I got other calls d B, but I can't talk
too much about drains. But it's fascinating and I'm liking
about this cargo as well. Ten from nine Pete Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Okay, Marcus.

Speaker 22 (31:49):
I just look at that on Google everything That listening
tree was on Leon Musker's first Carben is in university.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
They reckon really?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (31:58):
I just han year old but.

Speaker 13 (32:00):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I like the way you're wrong naming and with leon Musk,
I like that.

Speaker 12 (32:07):
Yeah, but I've actually owned one of those.

Speaker 22 (32:09):
They're actually feary.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You're joking.

Speaker 22 (32:13):
I didn't have that for that long.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm going to put that on your profile, Okay, writing
that down? Okay, you're joking.

Speaker 22 (32:22):
You know, a good carriage and the hell the stuff
on tray, It's amazing what you get inside of them.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
What was going wrong? What was going wrong in your
life to buy this? And cube?

Speaker 22 (32:32):
I just sent head an intention of selling it, No,
I know, no intention of keeping it. But you see
a lot a lot of people, a lot of people
have them.

Speaker 13 (32:39):
How did you?

Speaker 2 (32:39):
How long did you? How did you own it?

Speaker 13 (32:41):
For?

Speaker 12 (32:43):
Probably about six months?

Speaker 10 (32:44):
Wow?

Speaker 22 (32:45):
But they actually go quite well. They're actually quite a good,
little pippy, little color. And they used to there used
to be people that used to have they used to
have it all. They used to have copy. They used
to use them as.

Speaker 21 (32:58):
A coffee as a.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
People would Pete would pe, people shout funny things at you,
like when did you join the circus or stuff like that.

Speaker 22 (33:12):
Oh yeah, I just don't.

Speaker 12 (33:13):
I didn't worry me.

Speaker 22 (33:14):
I had to serve my purpose. I didn't worry me
at all.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
That would people give you a hard time for driving it?

Speaker 8 (33:19):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (33:19):
They sort of see, Well you're driving that thing for
worrying me. It's very good for getting stuff in you
butt drawers and eg but dryers and E get a
fridge and freezer. You get a fridge in there, fridge
freezer in there. Put the seats right back. You had
the old knee knees up to your stomach. But you
can imagine what you can get inside them. Wow, great
little cars.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Did you sell it for more than you bought it for?

Speaker 22 (33:45):
Ah, didn't make that much out of it, but made,
if you don't, not much but.

Speaker 11 (33:49):
A pocket money.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
You got to say that case of text mens, case
of text Men's this thing a yeah?

Speaker 22 (33:55):
But now good little good, little little cart.

Speaker 23 (33:57):
You know a lot of you still see a lot.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Of them around.

Speaker 22 (33:59):
I still got very reliable motism as well.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
That you might buy another one again.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
Well thinking about a year.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Paul ats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
Hey Marcus, funny story you had an engine driver on
My father was on the railways, drove the Seely flyer,
and he drove steams and he took a promotion in
nineteen sixty five, we moved to Blenhim and my mother
still lived at the railway house.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Cheaps.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yeah, I think it's a bit rich judging people based
on what cars they drive. My other half sold a
sold them as the mg BGT and we bought an
Amazda NA, which is the first one with a pop
up headlights. I taught both the children to drive in it,
did over three hundred thousand kilometers and sold it for

(34:57):
more for the convert the hard top because they used
them for racing nowadays, so sold the hard top for
more than we originally paged the car, and she bought
an NC which is the and she's done a couple
of hundred thousand k's in that and me's the fives
of the biggest selling convertibles in history. And you'll never

(35:19):
get to buy another car.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Wow, you never get one.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
You'll never get her to buy another car.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You took about your wife, Yeah, she loves it. I
don't know what to say.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Well, it's not often, you're speechless.

Speaker 10 (35:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
But does she get the top down very often?

Speaker 16 (35:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Again, something we live in christis she gets it down
quite often, but a little bit out of.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Town, don't they all break all the sort of the
soft tops. Don't they all sort of a ride or
get caught in the wind, and don't they all kind
of have to get fixed because they deteriorate.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
We've never fixed the soft top in twelve years or something, right, Okay,
So anyway, they are incredible, well engineered cars. She's got
a six speed, two liter manual. She loves it. She
wouldn't have an automatic because that's not a sports car.
And yeah, she just she just loves it. And anybody

(36:21):
they keep talking about them being Heir Dress's cars and
all the rest of it. If you one, if you
didn't want to drive one, people love them.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Don't you think it's a bit entry level?

Speaker 5 (36:36):
Well, you want to go for a Jaguar F type.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
I don't know. I always say that people drive that
because that's the cheapest of the conver I don't know.
A lot goes through my head, but I've never thought
there are hear Dress's cars. But I guess probably. I mean,
good on you, because you're driving what you want.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
She's driving what she wants. She wouldn't drive anything else.
Good in mind, she had a MG before that, and
she loves us way more than she had loved the
MG It's probably.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
More reliable, way more.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I just wonder why they call them a hair dress's car.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Because they were they were the cheapest convertible you could buy.
But they are an incredibly good driving little car they.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Drive.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
I'm driving Audi and she drives an Ex five and
she wouldn't swap for the world.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
You know, I've just googled it. It says the term
headress's car is somewhat a somewhat derogatory and humorous nickname
used to describe sporty, often convertible cars that some people
receive as been driven by individuals who prioritize style and
image of a performance, with the MASDAX five and mgbbing
common example. So yeah, you got that one right, Yeah, No.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
That's pretty much here.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Is she listening?

Speaker 10 (37:54):
I hope not.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Okay, sounds like a keeper. Nice to hear from you, Paul,
Thank you never heard that. I'll use that. I'll talkback
one nights, Cave. I'll say that to Pete. Fancy Peter
having this in cube, nothing wrong with it, So I

(38:17):
like where Pearl drinks talk Mackay, nothing wrong with it.
You can put a dryer and a dishwasher in it.
I mean, where would you go with one of those?
For a freezer in it? Most don't want to transport
freezes around this in Cube, the fear of O Terra

(38:37):
get in touch by name is Marcus, welcome hitded twelve.
There's a million texts that can't be bothered. I can be,
but they'll also the same thing. What about this? What
about that? New Zealand's most hated car? Is it the
this in Cube? Marcus the new Mjesus shocking bought an

(38:58):
MG three for twenty twenty twenty three did eighty thousand
k's responsibly kept up with regular servicing, transmission, blew itself
up upgraded to Navara. Listen Cube, fantastic car uses a
secondary delivery vehicle. Took the back seats out unbelievable capacity.
Surprised that no one's calling it the tartis Marcus. The

(39:22):
voice carry you had the misfortune to buy was a
jow at javel and heavy car with a small motor.
Couldn't even give it away. Marcus, don't hate any cars,
but lots of ugly and reliable cars arrived on the
shraws of New Zealand. Owned a crap Teva, set Me Broke,
Most Fun, hond City Turbo and the Wet Dear Marcus

(39:48):
Brownhilven Hunter sold as a hunter, but ready quite a runter, Marcus.
It's not called a cube because it's square. It's called
a cube because it has one cubic meter of space
in the back. It's a pretty interesting stuff people are saying.

(40:09):
But I said it was a show. It's been a while.
Her greetings are welcome. We are talking about New Zealand's
most hated car, which it seems to be well, it's controversial,
it's not exactly then and cube, but people well it's
a cubic meat large, which is news to most people.

(40:31):
That's what we are talking about. Feel free to partake
Oh eight one hundred and eighty eight Teddy and nine
to nine to de text Mike it's Marcus. Good evening
and welcome home.

Speaker 12 (40:38):
Make hey, thanks Mackon.

Speaker 8 (40:42):
I reckon.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
The most hated car was the helmet m Ah looked terrible,
didn't it.

Speaker 12 (40:49):
They're going only I actually tried to buy the cargo
and then he ends up buying a cube as a
promotional car. I blowing a crane company called All Grane
Sales and service, and I wanted something of a gimmicky,
so I bought a cube and we've put a crane
move on of them and the hot on the front,
and my parts guy drove it around. It was an

(41:12):
eye turn of people keep looking saying, is a a
real crane? And they are pretty ugly great little cars.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Your phone lines hate, Mike, your phone line is not great?
What sort of what sort of business did you have?

Speaker 12 (41:25):
A cine? We didn't portant to sell cranes.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Because you're not gonna fit. You're not gonna fit a
crane in a qube, are you.

Speaker 12 (41:33):
No, it was a gimmick. It made We made it
look like it we put we put a crane verm
on top of it.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Wow, okay, I'd like to see that and worked well,
all right, to drive.

Speaker 12 (41:45):
A great little car. I'm actually going to be in
Bluff just before Easter so we can do that. I
met up with Eddie and ray went up at the
oyster first of all last week.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Oh wow, wow, we call it, hey, Mike. Yeah, we
call Eddie Keith okay Keith and Raywan.

Speaker 12 (42:12):
Calls him any though, No, I don't. I don't think
she does, a boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I'll be Keith. It's a n uggly guy that opens
the oysters, right.

Speaker 12 (42:23):
Yeah, sure, eleventh for Jerio and the first for Juiro
was was pretty much hated too, because you know what
they had her nickname. Yeah, we'll go into down the radio.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Okay. So, so did you meet Keith and Rayman at
the oyster opening? Is that where you met them in.

Speaker 12 (42:45):
The last four years? Okay, I've got him with Bluff
Bluff Orphan. We've got a couple of customers down the
ascendants and and real journeys.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
So you come down to Bluff occasionally, do you?

Speaker 12 (42:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Originally do you go and see Do you go and
see Keith and ray when when you're down?

Speaker 12 (43:04):
No, only see them at the Oyster them.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Okay, Oh, we should get We should get together next time, Mike.
I'll bring a photo of the Yeah, do that and
we'll catch up.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
Then.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
My neighbors Keith and raywhen they're the way. He's an oyster.
He's an oys to mem but he also goes up
every year open oysters at restaurant in Auckland. He's sort
of great people. I've never heard him called Eddy. I
won't be happy we're talking about them. We're going to
bone to pick with you, She'll say. Anyway, ten past nine,
eight hundred and eighty twenty nine nine. Didn't work out

(43:40):
what the Nuver's company was. I'll google that up. I
think it was Cranes. Anyway, Rose, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (43:48):
Oh hi Marcus. How are you?

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Good thing you?

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Rose?

Speaker 13 (43:52):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (43:52):
Goosh, I'm believe it or not, I have a Boston princess.

Speaker 12 (43:58):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Tell me about that?

Speaker 8 (44:00):
How old?

Speaker 2 (44:01):
How old were you? Did you buy it you?

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (44:04):
No, we got given it by my father in law.
It was the only reason we got it because I wasted.
Is that ugly?

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (44:16):
And he gave it to you.

Speaker 6 (44:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (44:20):
Yeah, anyway, it was really really roomy. But we used
to call it the crab because it was crab along
the road.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Yes, I think they used to call a lot of
cars lend crabs, but I don't think. I don't have
the print. Was it it's yeah, I don't even know
what its nickname was, but it might.

Speaker 20 (44:35):
Have been that.

Speaker 19 (44:37):
Yeah, I don't know either, but what we called it
the crab?

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Did it die?

Speaker 19 (44:41):
And did it die?

Speaker 3 (44:43):
No?

Speaker 24 (44:43):
We flipped it off and board a Triumph Girald convertible creepers.
And then do we have some fun on met car
really though, really yeah, really really and.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Then what sort of like what sort of fun?

Speaker 6 (45:00):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (45:00):
Cruisingly on the highway with the sleeper and the.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Back or with the what in the beg.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
My phone owne is not great, Rose, but thank you?
Lines are cutting out twelve but it might be me
twelve past nine, I read to the text I wait
for your calls. Marcus. We love on this and cube
great headroom for tall people, fold the back seats down
and can put lawnmower. Isn't it My electric bike and
a big rocking chair my daughter borrowed for breastfeeding. My

(45:31):
brother folded a queen's size mattress in at once and
took it over the Tarkka Hills with a load of timber. Amazing, Marcus.
You can drives, sit fron ds on three wheels, Marcus.
When I was a teenager at a Morris Marina, it
was awful been a teenager or Ben. I had a

(45:53):
Bam beef bamed beaner for many years in the eighties.
My mates used to move it so sitting sideways in
a parking spot or move it somewhere inappropriate. Also played
how many we could fit into it? I think ten
was the Max Top Top was the better for this.
People love twisting around a Bambiner. Marcus Newman Tires an

(46:15):
Ash Burt and have Nissan Cubes as their customer car.
I love driving and it's like driving in a glasshouse. Cheapers,
get in touch. If you want to talk about New
Zealand's most hated car, Honda City from the nineties. What

(46:41):
do you reckon? I can't picture a lot of these cars.
I've got to google them. In the trouble with me
googling is I work in the dark now. It's hard
for me to see the keyboards. I need to glow
on the dark keyboards. Is that such a thing? When

(47:07):
I've typed Homer City where I actually mean Honda City,
I didn't know that the city good at home? Oh yeah,
ah so ugly, that knows, mind you saw him into
these days? You probably think I'll give you twenty K
for that. It's got that kind of ugly though. Tell
me what rock's really good? If you see a Minta

(47:27):
and early Honda Civic beautiful, I guess been the best
looking of all the Japanese cars. I love a Honda
Civic and like a metallic brown I've never been one
that loves an antique car. I'm not really a car

(47:48):
person to judgmental, but we are talking about the worst
and New Zealand's most hated car, which i'd say is
in Listen Q. But it's quite a lot of the
Thanks Mike I can look at. I think I've got
an image of Mike's. I don't know what, Yeah, but

(48:08):
give us a shout out when you're down in bluff,
get Keith and Ray when well come to the four
square that seeing you in my way? What's Sanford till
he's a bit a bit of controversy with the old oysters.
I don't really want to get involved with that, but
some of the restaurants have stopped telling them because I

(48:29):
think the numbers are down. Yeah, i'ctually had a dozen
a half dozen today cocked don't do it very often,
but they weren't huge. If it complicated because the woman
had number to slicks here and I wasn't quite sure

(48:49):
which my order was. So anyway, that's fine. Marcus. The
Leyland Princess from the seventies pretty fugly. I like it
as a car from Zech and gisbond and this and
is cargo advertising car not made for locks. Yeah, there's

(49:13):
something kind of funny about the lines on that that
looks terrible. I always think, just like I don't like
the NIS and Cube because if it's unsymmetrical, there's something
bad about the on The lights are a bit funny
on the cube, but there's something funny about the is cargo.
It looks sort of un aerodynamic. Dead Marcus Dead hid

(49:43):
in this and cube a few years back on way
hike and the rental guy told him it was a
mini Hummer. Oh don't you love a rental guy that's
making it of a legend of his job. Oh, you
got the old mini Hummer. Hummers were a terrible car,

(50:03):
weren't they? Goodness? But I don't know how many are
there still Hummers in the country. I think some of
the radio stations had the promo cars for a while. Today, Nina,
good evening, Welcome, Hey Nina.

Speaker 25 (50:19):
I'm a high Marcus.

Speaker 20 (50:20):
How you going think?

Speaker 3 (50:23):
So?

Speaker 25 (50:23):
I was listening to the radio. My husband has been
on to me for about three days now about buying
a nineteen eighty five Honda City. And you should have
seen his face light up. When you meet from the
car name like he thinks this as a sign there
is going to be.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
But hang on, we're going to blow up.

Speaker 25 (50:43):
He loves them.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Hang on, Nina, I said, Honda Civic, not Honda City.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Is that right?

Speaker 25 (50:51):
I think that's really Honda Civic.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
But if you're going to get a Honda Civic, I reckon,
that's fantastic. If you get early one of those.

Speaker 25 (51:01):
No City, nineteen eighty five city is all he wants.
He had it onto me about it. He thinks this
is a sign he's going to get one.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
But I don't know if they went. But I don't
even know how long they made Honda Cities for.

Speaker 21 (51:14):
He'd know.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Is he a car person? Oh yeah, I'm looking at
it now. Yeah wow okay, yeah, okay, gee wow, okay.

Speaker 25 (51:22):
Yeah, he's seen one on Facebook marketplace. Like, I promise
you this weekend it's going to be in my driveway.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
For you for you to drive.

Speaker 25 (51:31):
No, I don't want to. I don't want to get
on this.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
I think some of them were like convertible to cabriolet
with a soft top. I mean that's pretty, she she,
but it's forty years old.

Speaker 25 (51:40):
Shown me one of those. Yep, yep, will come with
like a little motorbike in.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
The bat Really okay, I've seen that now, wow? Really?

Speaker 25 (51:50):
Yeah, So I think this is a I think this
has just solidified it for me in my life.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Does he does he? Is there a color.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
White?

Speaker 25 (52:00):
He's looking at a white one?

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Okay, Well, I shouldn't say, because I think if I
might want to go and buy it now, so you said, Shakira.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
Absolutely, well yeah, what's that noise?

Speaker 21 (52:13):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (52:13):
Sorry, that's my reversing.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Oh I quite like it.

Speaker 25 (52:15):
Sorry about that, ye go.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Good luck with that, Nina. By the way, I can't
see a good picture image of the Honda Civic that
I'm meaning to see. But anyway, I'm about to sneeze also,
which is awkward. I kind of feeling it's like a
nineteen Ah. I need a picture of an early Honda Civic,

(52:38):
you know, I get in touch with your talk. My
name is Marcus. Welcome early. Oh that's the beautiful one
generation by generation. Yeah, no, no, I don't think anyone
ever thought the Hondes Civic was an ugly car. The
original ones seventy three to seventy nine. That's the one

(53:00):
to have the first generation. That's a gorgeous looking car.
Gorgeous looking car burnt orange. Yeah, that's the answer anyhow,
how it's or going people feel free to get involved with.
But the in Form eighty four they're disgusting looking in

(53:25):
the sedan because most cars, you leave them long enough,
they start looking good again, don't they.

Speaker 7 (53:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Pedestrian has been hit in Makanawa, Ryan Road, Flora Road.
That's north in Vcago. That's just information just through. I
don't know if these diversion's old look so the old
advertisement for the Princess. Someone sent me through the Austin Princess.
It's like cheese. You can drive around and pretty wacky,

(54:00):
isn't it. Marcus mas TOMX five most popular sports car
ever according to the numbers. Yeah here risks car, cheap
and cheery. Not a man's car for sure. Brought lots
of cars for friends over the years. Had a lady

(54:21):
friend in Devenport. Wow, it sounds like a bend lady
friend and Divenport. Had a lady friend and Devenport who
asked me to find an MX five had to have
a black soft top. Sourced a nice green one and
tuckapoona one Saturday morning. Sure enough, black ragtop took it
for a long drive, roof off. Suddenly the can, seeing
single men and other MX five's waving at me, took

(54:46):
it back and the sales manager told me gay guys
love them. Wow, it's a lot in this email. Never
drive another one. But my lady friend bought it, had
it for twelve years and loved it. I think my
findest fee was a bottle of Chardonnay Lady friend and Divenport. Wow,
great email, car, Marcus. I've had two four tourists, one

(55:12):
in Sydney, one in New Zealand. Damned fantastic cars. Do
you remember last week I told you I was buying
a Fit five hundred. Drove it back from Wellington to
napri it to fantastic surprise. He comfortable for a micro car,
thanks Roger. New Zealand's most hated car. By the way,
I've got the TV on. It's going to be Penrith
versus Melbourne last year's final, the repeat of that. But

(55:35):
looks like Seawn Johnson's got himself a gig. He's up
there with Cooper Kronk doing all the comments, put himself
in a suit, got himself a rollings, don't I guess
he'll be fairy good at comments. Seems to be a
new gig for him. Be more fun than flogging non
fungible tokens. Looks nice. The pin with Jewsey too. It's

(55:57):
like black and gold. They'll come back. They'll come back.

Speaker 17 (56:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
By the way, I enjoyed all the commentary and other
stuff about Sam Ruth today. I heard some great interviews
with him after the extraordinary race last night. So yeah,
I've actually been sent the list of New Zealand's fifty
subformant milers. It's quite a confusing list because of course
a lot of New Zealand's subforminate milers. Well, it's confusing

(56:33):
because you've got many of them that done multiple sub formuluts,
so you've got the quickest and you've also got their
first It's kind of a confusing list. But what is
and I'm not going to talk because I know that
not everyone's in the middle of it's running and I
am slightly fixated on it. But what is pertinent or
salient from the list is when you look at the

(56:55):
names of the fastest subforminate miles in New Zealand, and
I'll read those out to you.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Three p.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Forty nine John Walker three p fifty, Nick Willis three
fifty three, Rod Dixon three point fifty four, Sir Peter Snell.
So it hasn't got the dates beside me. But that's
from the sixties. Well, that might have been the fifties
or the sixties and the seventies and the eighties, so yeah,
we might have had some golden ages since for middlest

(57:27):
it's running, but it seems to be a long time
ago that we were really at our peak. So what's
that about anyway, Enough st he's in it's most hated cars,
but that does look good, that Honda City anyway, Marcus,
my friend's mother had a seventy nine Civic. It was

(57:47):
a two speed auto. Also, Bruce Willis drove an eighties
modern polp fiction always good if you've got a car
that's appeared in a movie, isn't it. Yeah, that's always exciting.
We always had a Pergio four to roh three, which
they also which Colombo drove, which always made us feel
slightly more which made us feel slightly less car shamed

(58:15):
because she's a fairly old car in the day. But yeah,
once you know Colombo's drive, well, actually it wasn't a
bad car, but it was old at the time. I
don't know why Columbo drove one. I think his might

(58:38):
have been a convertible. But yes, always good when your
car is driven in a TV series. Don't see those
are very much. I saw a four h four today
in the Vicar. We haven't seen a four row three
on the roads for a while. With the nineteen fifty nine,
convertible has won in the Colombo. There you go, great

(58:59):
detective show or one of the greats. Always sold the
crime to it in then his fumbling way brilliant. Keep
your texts coming through in your calls. I feel I've
almost like we've always done a show already. Tonight, I'll
keep your emails coming through to if you don't want

(59:19):
to talk. We are talking about New Zealand's most hated
car besides the Tesla. I find myself making noises when
I see someone in Tesla now, particularly if you see
someone in Tesla and bluff, because they're always tourists, always
sort of off down to the sign, always looking a bit.

(59:41):
Can you drive smugly? I don't know if they drive smuggly,
but you get that kind of impression from them. It's
probably in my head to be fair.

Speaker 20 (59:48):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
I keep seeing headline saying bombshell development with last ditch
search for MH three sevens are every article I've called on.
I can't see any Have you seen anything dead? I
can't see anything. Okay, Queenstown's having new laws by laws
about freedom campers. Local business owners report streets becoming toilets

(01:00:14):
and rubbish pitch due to camper's behavior. Mine it was
an election year, meg LINN Lewis who swift action to
manage hotspots and enforced regulations effectively. Oh well, I don't
know what the new freedom camping by law is going
to be. Oh, the Motor Caravan Association sort of judicial review.

(01:00:37):
So the bi law was squashed by the High Court.
Queenstown man Rob Greb told the council forty years had
owned businesses in the area, including Pinewood Lodge. You'd never
seen this level of bad behavior from freedom campers.

Speaker 8 (01:00:53):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Daily, nightly, this is all the time of the night.
We're getting campervan people who are camping on the streets
coming into Pinewood, taking showers, pinching stuff at the communal kitchens.
On rubbish day, model bins go out and by the
time the staff got to collect them. The bins are
half full. Goodness, it's inexcusable. We've had enough. Bless me

(01:01:20):
apologize for that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
All.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
The only breaking us is the Malaysian government has approved
a search for the missing MH three seven zero flight.
So there we go. That's ten years since it's been
so it's not like they've found it. I thought that

(01:01:47):
was something exciting, Marcus. I think the most hated car
is also the biggest linkr the Ford Ranger, always driven
fast and aggressively. Probably hated by the owners when they
have constant transmission and engine failures. Also hated by people
trying to park their car because you park your car
and it's right next to the giant Ford Ranger, and

(01:02:08):
you think, well, I hope they don't think I've parked
them in when they can't get into their passenger door
and damage the car be opening get aggressively. Oh yeah,
I think that's likely to say about the Ford rap money.
All those giant mutes look the same, don't they They're
pretty much very muchness. See Isuzho's a giant kind of

(01:02:30):
an I don't know what they've got them for. What
they put in the back sparples. We're talking about using
the most hated cars, and that's just kind of pivoting too.
Car stories in general always good people have to talk
about cars, Marcus. My husband's first life insurance is something
word that's wrong. Insurance to come to head. A Wee

(01:02:51):
Cube here in Boomtown, bailin. It's been a great Wee
promo car. We love it. Pops a smile on your dial,
super reliable. Funny story. A large family of seven. One
weekend when the esteemer was in the mechanics, we took
the seven of us to Nelson for a sports tournament.
No shopping was allowed for the trip. Hime no room
in the inn. Lucky, some of the young ones could

(01:03:14):
fit in the back seat. Loll Get in touch of
your talk, Marcus. Till midnight and the Honda Civic. Do
you ever see an eighties one around? Because boy, they
look good. I don't know what the color palette was.
What do they call them now? The color? What are
the different word for color? What do they always talking
about the color? What's that word the millennials use.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Color?

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
It's a color. They always say that it's in a
different What's the word I'm looking for when they talk
about colors. I can't think. Hello, Samantha, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:03:55):
Hello, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Thank you Samantha.

Speaker 6 (01:03:59):
Hi.

Speaker 15 (01:03:59):
I just wanted to let you know that I have
a nineteen ninety seven Honda manual.

Speaker 24 (01:04:05):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (01:04:06):
What color it's black. I bought it about seven years
ago now and it's still going strong. It's up to
about two hundred and eighty thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
K's what's the reception? Is old enough now for people
to get excited by.

Speaker 15 (01:04:19):
It, Yes, very much, sir. I've had a few comments
on it now. And when I do drive down the
road in it, I do get a lot of people,
like other people in Honda civics because they are quite
rare now. So I do get other people in Honda
Civics and they do a little way. And this is
an older generation.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
This is the sedan or the coupe.

Speaker 26 (01:04:39):
The coupe, Wow, the hatchback.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
It's still yeah, because it still looks I'm just trying
to think how it looks. It does for a car
that's thirty years old. Almost It doesn't actually look that data,
does it?

Speaker 15 (01:04:55):
I don't think so. But they are quite recognizable now
because you don't see them when I had bought the car.
They work quite common, but now I feel like they
just disappeared off the road and you see maybe one
a month.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Yeah, okay, yeah, because you know, because when you've got
a car, you always do as other cars the same.

Speaker 17 (01:05:10):
Don't you.

Speaker 8 (01:05:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:05:11):
Yeah, I also have a Mini Mini one that is
very common at the moment. They're everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Okay, what years the Mini one that's the more recent one.

Speaker 13 (01:05:18):
Is it? Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:05:20):
Twenty thirteen?

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Okay, Hey with you with the Honda, right, did you
say it's going to turn onund seventy thousand?

Speaker 25 (01:05:26):
Yeah, to eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
What do you think will be the end of it?
What will cause you to get rid of it?

Speaker 15 (01:05:37):
If it's to the point where it's needing something that's
going to cost more than the car to replace?

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Yeah? Yeah, And how far do you think that's a
sensible thing to say? How far away do.

Speaker 17 (01:05:47):
You think that is?

Speaker 15 (01:05:49):
I don't. I actually think it's still got another few
years in it, to be honest, I don't know. I
bought it because it was no one for its reliability
and they just go and go and go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:05:59):
I'm keeping it warranted and registered and it's just still
going strong. It's the only thing I've ever really needed
to replace in it a seat belt and tires.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Well, yeah, so if.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Your in reliability, it begs the question why'd you buy
the minih They're No.

Speaker 15 (01:06:18):
One for the most reliable European car.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Okay, and before that, I don't know if Minis are
unreliable or not, but it's just a British car and
they normally fairly unreliable, aren't they they are?

Speaker 15 (01:06:30):
Yeah, European cars are known for their unreliability. I had
an RDTT that I spent about two years of just
problems with. It was just constant problems. It was spent
more time in there are mechanics than what it did
in my driveway.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Just what people say, Hey, what year was it? Has
you got it like ten years old?

Speaker 6 (01:06:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:06:49):
It was quite an old one. It was a two
thousand and five I think so, Yeah, it was quite old.

Speaker 13 (01:06:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Did you manage to sell it to anyone?

Speaker 13 (01:06:59):
I did?

Speaker 15 (01:07:00):
I did sell it. I don't want to say that
I sold it from something that I probably shouldn't have
sold it for on the radio, but I just sell it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
I just around the thanks for that twenty past ten.
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty. It's always yeah. I
always like, well, I say that we've sold cars and
brought them back again, which is a great thing to do.
When that becomes a win win scenario, that's a great thing.

(01:07:32):
We had one car we sawd that we're going to
need and we saw a guy on the motorway with it.
That's our car, and then we brought it back and
he had he put a new sound system in it,
and then we sold it a guy that was a hunter. Yeah,
that's right, Hunter up Nelson Way because he flew down

(01:07:56):
to Nina, had to have been at the airport and
catch the bus back. That was exciting. I have not
This is not me. This is a text. I have
a ninety five Master familiar with turn on sixty two
k T thousand K is it a lot? What's Boomtown?

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
B l N?

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I thought there was an overseas text where they talked
about going to Nelson Boomtown sixteen to ten High Gary evening, Marcus, Well.

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
Today, how are you tonight? I just got a quick story. Well,
just the good and the bad of cars. So a
little while ago I did an impulse by and bought
a Morris Minor. It's a nineteen sixty two to one
and it was in the museum down at Hastings, and
I bought it without even looking at it. It just

(01:08:52):
looked good in the photos. So we got it up
here and then I just went through mechanically. I had
to get a lot of stuff done, so I've got
all the breaks done and did a lot of the
kind of the mechanics on it. But the paintwork and
the inside, the interior everything, it looks shiny and it
looks nice. And the ironic thing is when I park

(01:09:15):
it outside my house, to the annoyance of my son
who's got a very collectible BMW and you have the
two cars outside, everybody stops takes photos of the Morris
Minor and wants to be and they've all got people
of a certain vintage, all seemed to have a story
about a Morris Minor. How they first went out, and

(01:09:37):
it's how they bought one, how they learned to drive,
and it's and all.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
The rest of it.

Speaker 7 (01:09:41):
So the things cost me a little bit to get
it back on the road, but the ironic thing was there.
And I had a flatmate went past my house and
he's pulled in and stopped and he said, I used
to do all my training. When I was at New
Zealand MotoCorp on these and I said, oh, it's not
going and he said, oh, hang on a second. So
he's straight away, head under the bonnet and he's pulling

(01:10:02):
all the stuff out, and I'm like, what are you doing.
He goes, oh, you need to get a new petrol
and then it's no good. I went, oh, okay, and
he goes, it's an N three to two oh one
or something like that, and I said, what the hell
is that. He says, that's the part number, and I
was like, I said, how the hell can you remember that?
And he goes, oh, I just remember that happens. Thousands
of them were replaced, and I was kind of well impressed.

(01:10:24):
So I must have met every time. It's like every
time I've got it out in the driveway and I've
got the bonnet up, he said. He comes past his
motorbike straight away, stops and then he's kind of helping
fix with it, which is really grand because you've got
he's just been able to fix everything on it. So
we were able to get it what we understand, never
gone since it stopped going about nineteen eighty four, and

(01:10:46):
so we got all the tank re done, we got
the petro tank done, all new lines, carbureta reconditioned, ne
coil distributor points, the whole lot done, put it all together,
and he goes, well, let's go. He's give it a tries.
We turn it on the petrol pump. If you don't know,
they pumped up and they go, you know, dog dog,

(01:11:08):
dog dog may slowly stop. I said, okay, are we
going to give it a try? And he goes, go on,
let's go. So we started second turnover at fired up. Wow,
word of a I it went and I went and
we just kind of went yay, like salvation. He goes, shit,
let's go. So he jobs then and we drove off
around the block about five times, laughing their heads off.

(01:11:29):
It's the best excitement they've ever had for a long
time in the car, of just absolute success that this
thing hadn't gone since eighty four and we've got it going,
and it just shows the reliability of sometimes these really
really old cars. And I just thought that was really
a good thing. And the really weird thing is I
live in a kind of area in Auckland, and there'll

(01:11:51):
be no other one somebody else has bought one exactly
the same color as mine, and he's one street away. Unbelievable,
And so I get all these weird waves when I'm
driving around now, so obviously he's getting waves from his
friends and they're probably waving at meat and it's the
same car. So it's kind of But the other thing
is the negative ones have to be these these rangers

(01:12:17):
there are, you know, the big utes, so impractical for people.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
That like them. Range your owners. But yeah, what was
it like to drive horrible?

Speaker 7 (01:12:25):
Oh it's just okay, you beg you're up high, but
go into a super market and try and park the thing.
It's just ridiculous. It's like, you know, you're trying to
astin powers and the tunnel, trying to go backwards and
forwards about ten times just to get into a parking spot.
It's just the ridiculous. Then you get out, like you say,
you get out and you have to try and I'm

(01:12:48):
not small, you know a bit of you know, you know,
life's been good and I've got a kind of bit
of a t So you try and get out of
this thing and you're trying to get past the door
and squash it that you know, you're not trying to
touch the car extoor and or the rest of it.
And it's just yeah, now, car.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Parks and all our infrastructure is not designed for cars
that big. It's crazy. But anyway, Hey, just back to
your Morris right, how many miles on the.

Speaker 7 (01:13:11):
Clock about one twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
I think they are such a beloved car. I don't
know any I don't know why they're so be beloved,
just because they're so adorable looking and they're kind of
quite famous from TV programs and stuff like that. Were
they gary with?

Speaker 13 (01:13:27):
Was that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
And it a made car?

Speaker 20 (01:13:30):
Possibly?

Speaker 21 (01:13:31):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
I think I think it might have been assembled here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Yeah, because your mate would have known what did they
have it? Place to look to see if it was local,
because I presume that's a big deal as if they're
assembled locally.

Speaker 7 (01:13:42):
Yeah, I haven't had a hundred look. It was actually
the first owner. Her name was Beatrice Pilgrim from Betty Pilgrim,
and I thought, I thought what she was from the
vin and I thought she was what.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
She's probably listening.

Speaker 7 (01:14:00):
What a perfect name to owner Morris Minor for the
first time. And I've got like I've got the original papers,
which is really weird.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
But Yeah, it's just I don't know why a museum
is selling it, but that's museums for you.

Speaker 7 (01:14:13):
I think the guy who owns the museum sold off
a lot of cars he had. I think they I
think he passed away and they might have sold off
the whole museum and there was about two hundred and
something old vintage cars that got rid of. And it's
just it's one of the ones that I've spent spent
more than I should have ever spent on doing it up.
But it's one of those ones I'll never sell, just

(01:14:33):
keep it and just kind of And the funny thing
is you hop inside like I have to. I have
to kind of reverse and with my backside, you know,
and then swivel in because you know it's just kind
of tight. But when you're inside it said, you've got
an amazing and feeling of like got huge head room.
You could wear a big hat, and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
So you shure you should wear a top hat. You
should always wear a topic when you're driving it. Why
have you got off, Gary, Wat's the point?

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
What's the point? The point was, I'm going to make
it into a daily I'm going to make it my
daily driver. And I'm gonna because I kind of live
close to work now and kind of that top you're
looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Ruffles, you're looking for laughs, or you're just you're gonna
enjoy it.

Speaker 10 (01:15:15):
It's just unique. And I've bought a cheese.

Speaker 7 (01:15:16):
Cutter I've bought a cheese cutter hat. I'm going to
put that to work. You're going to look the part
as you go along as you do, and I'll buy
some kind of I'll make sense you look. Probably if
I get something like you know, Harry Potter glasses as well,
that'll that'll fill.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
The little little Guess what Gary does for a living.

Speaker 7 (01:15:36):
Now, you'll never guess what I do for a living.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
You're not an undertaker, No, you're not an accountant.

Speaker 7 (01:15:43):
I did deal with a lot of guests before my
previous job.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
You work at you work in an office.

Speaker 7 (01:15:49):
I know I'm outside even outside now. I'm working now.
I finished my other career, long career, and then I'm
actually outside now doing my job, and I'm standing in
the beautiful Auckland's evening.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Looking out security guard.

Speaker 7 (01:16:07):
I am, well, it's kind of has a sense of
your name, but it is. I am a security guard.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Yeap, brilliant and nothing nothing to report tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:16:19):
No, No, it's all calm on the Western front as such,
so I'm kind of down ad a Marina.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Oh god, well, so you have Gary soon. You have
the powers of arrest and you can pursue people. Your
Morris Minor and your cheese cutter.

Speaker 7 (01:16:33):
Hey, that's the thing I should get, like a little
flashing light that I can put in the dash.

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
They probably were police cars once on Google. Thanks for
hanging on there, Paul. Good evening. Welcome, Hi, Paul.

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
Mate.

Speaker 20 (01:16:45):
That last call was brilliant with a lot of money,
and I'm glad he's going to enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Well, he seems like he's going to.

Speaker 20 (01:16:54):
Yeah, it's outstanding.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
I think.

Speaker 20 (01:16:59):
I think the one thing I've got to say when
you brought up the cube, there's something interesting in that
car because top Gear did that car. I'm sure that
Jeremy Clarkson did.

Speaker 6 (01:17:20):
That car.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
And loved it.

Speaker 20 (01:17:25):
There's Jags, there's Audi's, there's Porsches. You should have seen
where that car came. It was unreal, you mean a
race or in his review just rating the whole vehicle
because they do the PEP performance, they do you know, engine,
they do the whole thing. That car was outstanding.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
For what reason? Performance or comfort or.

Speaker 10 (01:17:57):
Yeah all round?

Speaker 20 (01:17:59):
It rated like so high. But I'm like you, it's
as ugly as a hatful of backside markets. It doesn't
look like a good car, but that's why people have
bought them.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
And I'm not to be fair, I'm not a big
Clarkson's fan. I mean, I prefer him to the other guy.
What's the annoying guy called? Oh wow, world cheepest creeper.

Speaker 20 (01:18:23):
He'd be a piece of work, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Be a piece of work? I think I think the
wife shot the wife shot through, hasn't she I saw
on the flat papers like she's she's sick of him,
had enough of his simpering manner.

Speaker 20 (01:18:35):
Look, they don't sell cars, but they rate them. And
and the cube to me, and I've driven past a
couple of thing. Thank god I'm not driving at But yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
That's I didn't realize it could take I didn't realize
it could take a meat a cube. I didn't realize that.

Speaker 20 (01:18:55):
Was why it was called yeah me, neither me neither.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
That could be a bit of misinformation. You know what
talkbacks like first casualty of talkbacks the truth. But I'll
check that.

Speaker 20 (01:19:03):
Out meter of Florest's plants. Okay, Floris love, yes, exactly,
lovely talking to you mate?

Speaker 12 (01:19:14):
Is it from you?

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
I'm gonna watch the kickoff in the in the Rugby league.
Say in the cube they've got a cubic meter doesn't
even say that. I'm just looking on the wiki, don't
you love Wikipedia? This in cube exclusive slightly larger load
caring to than this and Micra doesn't say it's going
to meet a cube because it wouldn't be called the
cube in Japanese, would it. Well, I've got time to talk.

(01:19:40):
Why is in this in cube called in this in cube?
Why is in the same cube called a cube? More
will be revealed. Gary has wound up the Ranger owners.
Hey Gary, I own a Morris Minor and a Ranger,
love them equally.

Speaker 17 (01:20:00):
What a knob.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
Jay make is listening in from Los Angeles? Have just
been the Lakers versus Denver at Crypto Arena. Amazing experience.
Great to share it with my brother. American sport is
something else. James and Dave, nice to you, James and Dave.
It's all gone bad with old Lebron's son, hasn't it.

(01:20:23):
I presume he didn't at any court time, Marcus. My
mother had one of the first v w's and crochies
the nineteen fifties. I remember a man looking at and saying,
it's even got an outdoor motor. I have a fifty
five Morris mine. I love That car was as semil
in South Africa. I also in two os today thirties
one of van my every day run around cars and

(01:20:44):
this in Micra two thousand and seven, Andy and Partia
Boomtown has Blendham didn't know that, so thanks for that.
I might have a I don't know if I like
the that Micra?

Speaker 12 (01:20:56):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
I have to google that up. I'm afraid people Melbourne's
gone ahead penwith looking weak in defense. They played the
entire thunderstruck and didn't come out of the changing rooms
until that was finished. But a brinksmanship. There love about
a thunderstruck, don't they? Amy Stadium? Now, what's this car.

Speaker 8 (01:21:21):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Getting touched on tok My name is Marcus, Welcome Nissan Micra.
I'll have a look at one. I'll recognize it. I
think another gimmicky car, isn't it? Oh you don't mind it?
By the way, there's no reason it's called a cube
because it's got one cube meter of space. I can't
see that written anywhere, so I think it's just called

(01:21:47):
a cube because it looks qb qbqb. Ten past ten
we're talking about Zeland's most hated car, which seems to
be the Nissene Cube, although it's a polarizer lurry.

Speaker 8 (01:21:57):
Fus. I think here the trigger. Even though it was
one of the New Zealand's probably the only carefully made
in New Zealand, I think that that was pretty unpopular
after anyone that's sort of drive them on around for
a while. Rather government departments bought them or and well,

(01:22:19):
I know we were given them to do map chicks,
you know Land and when the map topographical map gets published,
used to have to go out and drive the whole
round every every road on the on the sheet and
the well to check well usually when they're going to
be revised, so I mean, and that at that time

(01:22:43):
a lot of the mapping was done off aerial photographs,
but some of that could have been several years between
when it was drawn before it got published. So just
just before they published and you went out and did
a complete map chick, drove every road and then some
of them were. I used to go and walk all

(01:23:04):
the tracks as well, which it was a pretty good job.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Next week, Yeah, it sounds like a great job if
you're the maps.

Speaker 8 (01:23:11):
There's a good YouTube video done by the National Film Unit.
It's called an Inch to the Mile and it covered
the whole process of of that and on there. There
was also a shot of somebody driving around a trikcker
that was you, No, it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
It wasn't.

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Look, every time I was seeing a tricker come up
and there's that one at Tipapa or one to trade
me for sale. I always think they always look pretty good.
But the engine was gutless, wasn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:23:36):
There was a scuder engine. Yeah, yeah, they and they
I think the transmission and that used to give up
on them. They think of sort of limit as as slipt.
But compared to I mean the other vehicles we either had,
you know, like Leandrovers or the short wallased Toyota. Yeah
for four you know which are the shed blue flame

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engine and you know, the old tricker wash was a
poor substitution.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
I mean it was before all my time. But did
government departments have a lot of them?

Speaker 8 (01:24:10):
They did well. I think the agriculture and the certain
the land of survey line. They picked up on them,
and you know they were because they were quite relatively cheap,
I suppose, and they thought they were sort of like
a poor man sort of a land rove, but really
they were. They didn't have the four wheel drive and
they didn't have the endurance, you know, sort of, but

(01:24:31):
they were.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
They were aleminium bodies either. Were they a silly question
because then.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
The land rover was.

Speaker 8 (01:24:38):
Yeah, the Toyoda and some of those early Toyotas they
were a bit of a rust bucket as well all
after all.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
But the trigger was the Eleminion, was it?

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

Speaker 8 (01:24:48):
That's hard. I think they felt a bit before they
But hey, the one you liked. I had a nineteen
seventy seven Civic. Yes it was a Deluxe. I bought
it and I come back from Sammia, so I've been
away for a few years. I got big it in
sort of Judy free.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Oh yeah, that was all a performance in those that
you couldn't just buy a car good.

Speaker 8 (01:25:11):
No, No, it was a silver one and nextally he
had air conditioning in it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
It is what it was.

Speaker 8 (01:25:19):
A deluxe I think, so, yeah, So I took it
out after have been working in Parmi for a while.
There was a guy who had who was running. He
was an agricultural contractor who had a cab. It was
quite a dusty job he had, and he wanted an
air conditioner so he could sort of, uh do both

(01:25:39):
the runs up and down into the wind sort of
stuff you know, how to come by. So I took
took the air conditioning out of the hound and sold
it to him.

Speaker 27 (01:25:48):
And he was rapped.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:25:49):
He was doing what they spinning drains and what they
call and so like if there's raised a hell of
a lot of dust. So if you're doing it in
one direction, you know the dust, they wouldn't could take
the dust away. But if you're doing it the other way,
it was sort of, you know, really choking up and
you couldn't actually operate it well with spinning. So yeah,

(01:26:10):
he was wrapped. He could sort of close the doors
and spin away within their conditioner sort of kept the
air clean.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
So how long did you keep it for, Laurie? How
long did you keep the Horndes Civic for?

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
Ah?

Speaker 8 (01:26:22):
We actually had a ding somebody a motorcyclist ran into
when my wife was driving and one night went straight
into it, basically, and so it was never we've got
fixed under insurance. Never so flipped it off. But I

(01:26:42):
mean they the rust proofing wasn't that great on those,
and a lot of a lot of them didn't survive
that in that stage. But it was a pretty good vehicle,
you know, it was, Yeah, it was that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
What was the fine print? If you're coming, if you've
lived in Samo for ten for two years, you can
bring a car back with you, but not did you
have to have the car in Samoa?

Speaker 8 (01:27:07):
No, you didn't know, well what I did. I wasn't
somewhere for four years. But you arranged with the local
agent there and he would you selected it, then he'll
get put it on a boat from Japan and that
would get delivered directly to went into Actually that's where
it turned up.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
So what's the theory is that because you've been overseas
you can bring a car back with you.

Speaker 8 (01:27:30):
Yeah, yeah, you're returning. You were sort of you've been
out of the country for a number of years, so
you're you're just like you're somebody who was arriving with
their goods.

Speaker 7 (01:27:37):
You know, Okaye doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
But you know, I guess that's the trouble with bureaucracy.
There's always someone finds the way around it. So there's
probably a special dealer whose business was to sell cars
to people living in or overseas people.

Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
Yeah. Well, I think the fact that had been shipped
over and it coming only I think, you know, it
might have been on deck or it seemed a bit
more susceptible to the rest broefing. You know, the fact
that had been in the c year and never probably
sort of washed off, mould have been partly as the
rest of it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Yeah, but yeah, you didn't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Drive it, and somehow I had no no k's on
the miles on the clock.

Speaker 8 (01:28:20):
Arrived, No, no, there was brand new.

Speaker 12 (01:28:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:28:23):
Yeah, but yeah, there was a hell of it to
do with all PaperWorks.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
Don't about that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
I mean, why are they're bringing cars across the only
hanging wolf and I mean cheapest anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:28:35):
That's it's a job. You would have liked the old
map checking.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
No, no, exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:28:41):
The whole it's called ended up being called map purification,
and I still we were still doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
You got to go on every you got to go
on every road, every road, yep, drove the whole lot.
And so one of those lands and surveys maps, right,
how many were there, like four hundred to the country,
how many with it to New Zealand.

Speaker 8 (01:28:57):
Off there was it's uh, it'd be probably no, maybe
one hundred and fifty or so.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
So how long how many people and how long would
it take to verify one map that's semi urban.

Speaker 8 (01:29:14):
They weren't all done together, and like they were they
were were they were coming through in bits and pieces basically,
so and they get clicked after the district officers. Sometimes
you could split them into four and you get different
people doing them. But quite often you get you know,
you get the whole sheet allocated. And I had held
a lot of stuff down the West coast. And when
you could go away from.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
The months, did you find many mistakes?

Speaker 8 (01:29:37):
Oh yeah, you'd find quite a few. Yeah, yeah, different
odds and end stuff that couldn't be seen that well.
And and at that stage they were still doing power
lines and telephone lines that ran cross country and some
it couldn't at that specification at that stage was still
a military specification, which was that's changed later on when

(01:30:01):
they didn't do a lot of the cross country lives
in the military. Specification also required that every bridge you
went over you had to classify it. And what didn't
so much what the dick was. You actually had to
climb out and look underneath and see what supported it,
and that was you know, you steel or stuff like that.
And that was so that they knew what they need

(01:30:23):
to blow it up with, basically.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
To stop the enemy advancing.

Speaker 8 (01:30:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it was the specification for a
long time. With the topographical mapping, that's what they got,
and they started it during the war and then that
sort of carried on.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
Laurie, you might be ready for a podcast the early
days of lend and Survey and you said, I've got
to run, Laurie, but thank you. Eighteen past ten Melbourne
running away with at ten erl. Peter's not getting a
look and they look rattled. Rattled anyway, get in touch
with I talk about moated car anything correlated. This is
to show people cars, cars cars. Mark is is speaking

(01:31:01):
of roads per se. What are the rules around a
paper road? Are they a public ride and ride way
or not? I don't know the situation where I think
probably fed farmers are kicked up on that, I think,
and close the paper roads for people fishing. There's been
some sort of go around there. Marcus Iversuzuki s X four.
I love it had one years ago and like an idiot,
sold it, but managed to get it to get this

(01:31:23):
twenty thousand and eight, two thousand baby blue one in
pristine condition, only forty on the clock. Drives like a dream,
though bit hard on petrol. One up from the swift Marcus,
awesome topic, My most had carras and make that does
the U two and suddenly drives like a Sunday Special.
Looks that he has so many of them. The Preus yuck?

(01:31:45):
What about the Vauxhall Viva Sadan, the hold in Chavette
Helm and Hunter station wagon things Linda get in touch with.
We're talking about Zeland's most hated car or your almost
hated car. Just it's a chance for people to talk
about the cars they hate and the cars they love,
if you want to do that as well. It's about

(01:32:06):
the Nisan Cube and the s Cargo. But the Nisan
Cube's got the best response. Fancy and Oterra. There was
five of them. Someone says they've sent me some information
the Nisan cube offers eleven point four cubic feet of
cargo space with the rare seats, and use expanding to

(01:32:29):
fifty eight point one cubic feet with the rare seats
folded down, and a cubic meter is thirty five point
three one four six cubic feets. It's actually a cube
and a half. It's pretty interesting. I'd like to get
in one. There's one in Bluff. Oh yeah, we know

(01:32:50):
your cars and Bluff small town. Hard thing. I was
small tower because youve got to wave to everyone when
you're driving around. That's hard work. Oh so I look
the other way. You know all the cars pretty soon.
But well, my name is Marcus Good Evening oh eight,
one hundred and eighty Teddy and nine nine text cars, cars, cars,

(01:33:17):
It's all about cars and Laurie lends and surveys lorry.
Wow for e E a chicken map These days all
be on Google Maps, wouldn't it, Marcus? Not nothing wrong

(01:33:39):
with a triumph here old station wagon. Oh gosh. I
won't read the rest of that text. But we're talking
now about rights of passage. Marcus. Have you seen the
Chrost Ditch City Council map that made the three news
to Note online shows one big red splotch because of

(01:34:01):
all the road cones, roadworks. It could be a Jackson Pollock.
I think that's the first time anyone's text about Jackson Pollock.
Jack the dripper.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Marcus bort in New Japan Airport SUZUKIX four in the
new year, had nothing but issues with it so far.
Missing my Nissan. We sold NRL Melbourne over Penrith twelve nil.
This is at Amy Stadium in Melbourne. So for a
big home crowl biggish home crowd for league in Victoria.
But there we go. That's a situation there. Get in
touch with talking about the hated cars New Zieland's most

(01:34:35):
hated cars. We can't talk about the cyber truck because
we haven't got any. But that's quickly become America's most
hated car. Well not quickly. I think they hated as
soon as the plans were revealed. Hollow George, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:34:49):
Top of the evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
How would you be Yeah, top of the EVD to
you to good Thank you George. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 21 (01:34:55):
I was great to hear your voice. Now one of
the biggest Lemons are very very small car that ever
come out and never lasted long. It was called a
Mayflower in the late fifties early sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
Wow, tell me more.

Speaker 21 (01:35:09):
Well, my uncle was a school teacher. Also he was
a great rugby played against the Lions. And his car
before that was a great big d Sota, a great
big square vintage type car. And he bought the small
thing for tetroal consumption and oh the motor and was
just problems, problems, problems. And I can't remember whether Laylan

(01:35:32):
put down or who did?

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
But Mayflower that last long? Did you see many on
the roads?

Speaker 13 (01:35:38):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:35:38):
Look, if the car lasted ten years, that would have
been maximum, I think by memory, by memory.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
But who was the guy? Was your uncle? Did you say?

Speaker 11 (01:35:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:35:50):
He played for back in the old days they had
combination he played. He was the hooker for a mid Canbary,
North Otago and South Canterbury team that played the Lions
and Timuru.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
What a day, toughest tea he'd be okay, and they
were they.

Speaker 21 (01:36:10):
Got a hiding, No they I just forget the score.
But it was a pretty close game and it was
synonymous if I remember rightly, by one of the locals.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
The woman with an.

Speaker 21 (01:36:25):
Umbrella must have been a wet day she went out.
And then I just forget who said, whether the ref
she took too or somebody any or the player.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
And I'll still be talking about that there, won't They
sort of fifty years on, I.

Speaker 21 (01:36:40):
Remember that may play every time you saw them, how's
that cargoing, uncle us? And he'd he'd roll off another
you know, few one hundred pounds he had to spend
on the damn thing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
You know, it was a Triumph.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
I didn't know you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
And it's hard to tell how small it is looking
at it, but it's and sometimes it looks like a
big car because he had quite a long nose. Other
photos it looks like quite a small car or something.

Speaker 21 (01:37:11):
Yeah, very small and a funny looking car, very funny
front of that, and you know, being a big man,
a hooker, you can imagine him trying to get in
the damn thing.

Speaker 4 (01:37:21):
You know what I mean, to drive.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
Maybe the old car dealer thought, well, a local, kind
of a local guy that played the lines might be
able to sell a few more, might have given him
a discount, you know, to have him driving around town
on it.

Speaker 21 (01:37:33):
Yeah, that was Ashberty would have bought it. Yeah, you
give bet your boots, you bet your boots, and it
wouldn't have been Rod mcilray. Rod mclray was had a
great car. You hadn't a great racing car driver.

Speaker 7 (01:37:44):
But that was a lot Yet later what do they
call a spurtin?

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
They call it the w town? Oh, the corporative town
or something.

Speaker 7 (01:37:52):
Don't they.

Speaker 21 (01:37:53):
I haven't got up on that one. I just remember
it as ash Vegas, you know, But no I can't.
I can't help you there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Nice to hear from you, George, Thank you for that
one hundred and eighty. Are you all going? People? My
name is Marcus Eddle twelve. What do you got New
Zealand's most hated cars? That's the Mayflower? Silly name for
a car, too, isn't it. What'd you call a carra mayflower?
Isn't the mayflower name of a boat? What is the

(01:38:28):
mayflower name of?

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
The worst ship. The Pilgrims went to the New World,
the Pilgrims sixteen twenty oh, because you couldn't, because they went.

(01:38:55):
They don't want to plan pray in private. Who knows
why you'd sail away for a whole New world. That's
what people we going to different planets soon because of
some religious disagree agreement. Anyway, I think the old the indigenous,
the Indians helped them out, didn't they talk to how
to eat turkeys and stuff. Should make a movie about

(01:39:19):
the Mayflower, shouldn't they. I've never seen the movie. There's
a lot of things they ever made movies about. It's
just a suggestion. Someone says, Marcus, do Tesla's have a
new car smell or an elon musk Ah? That's good,
although I see as our talkback callers are called leon musk.

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
Love that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Marcus just tuning in my burning question for the day.
Saw the headline, not the content. Are they moose? And
for Jordland? Hey look, I saw and read that article?
Was it today? I clicked on that was on the track?
They wasn't on the kepler track. I saw that and
I thought, where's the photos? Because I couldn't see photos
in the story. I have been hunting moose with Ken

(01:40:05):
Tustin in Fiordland, but they're such big animals, right, and
Fjordan's so steep. I don't know what the terrain's like
in Canada, but it seems to me it would be
very difficult for them to get around in Fjordland and
people would see them. That's just me, Marcus rip any Jordan.

(01:40:28):
I remember the bright yellow Jordan F one cars. Jensen
Button started his F one career in a Jordan. Oh yes,
so now I see that the name separate just as
a Jordan. I am familiar with that, so thank you
for that. Marcus. Remembering the sing of Vogue like a
helm and hunter for a lemon. Yeah, that's what I
wonder about. If we're doing talk back in twenty years

(01:40:49):
and it's all hope we're not, you wouldn't be talking
about the most hated cars of the twenty twenties because
they all look the same. That like a tuss Hayndo Tucson.
I think now that they've got wind tunnels and stuff
like that near it an amics. Basically every car is identical. Yeah,

(01:41:15):
that's right. Enough said about that. The better because when
you try, and we tried a couple of years ago.
We had to try it, had to choose a new
car and came down to the airps sale. It came
down to the salesperson actually, because the cars were identical.
One of the sales people had a bit more energy,
bit more pip and that was kind of it for us. Anyway,

(01:41:44):
twenty seven away from eleven, New Zealand's most hated car,
and I've encouraged everyone that it should be than this
and cube because it's because of its sheer lack of symmetry,
because that back door open sideways. That really upsets me.
I mean, I don't I don't like an unsymmetrical. I

(01:42:04):
don't like anything unsymmetrical. Get in touch if you want
to talk about this or anything else. He'eled twelve. If
Peter welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:42:19):
Has anyone discussed I haven't just listening anyone discussed land
rovers tonight? Is they've got to be that most loved
and the most hated cars in one.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Breath, I was you will?

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
They always say the best the best two days of
a land drover owner's life for the day they bought
it the day they sold it.

Speaker 24 (01:42:35):
Is that right?

Speaker 17 (01:42:36):
Yeah, I've made that mistake three times out. I still
got one, but I've had three of the das.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
Tell me I always get confused, but I always get
confused by land rovers and yeah, okay and rain drovers.
But what have you had?

Speaker 7 (01:42:48):
Have you had the.

Speaker 17 (01:42:50):
Well, initially I had, honestly a terrible can and the
most Landrovers would agree that that Landro a free Lander,
that was a terrible car.

Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
Even's wrong with that?

Speaker 17 (01:43:00):
But I got with her there and I thought the
proper one that descend there, the square, square box on wheels,
I always thought that would be my car. Read that
it was a big orange mine and had all the
off road equipment, and I loved it, but you know,
it was six months or so something terrible would go
wrong with it, and then it would cost league, and
honestly it was terrible to drive.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
So so I got rid of that.

Speaker 17 (01:43:21):
But then stupid may I sort of fell in love
with the tradeing head on trade me for a series
one Lander of it nine and tirsty one.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
Oh I'd like that, That's what I'd like.

Speaker 16 (01:43:32):
Yeah, well maybe maybe to go.

Speaker 17 (01:43:33):
By selling Extacson. I'll quite keep and selling.

Speaker 23 (01:43:37):
That.

Speaker 17 (01:43:37):
It took me six years to sort of restore it,
with the help of lots of other people in them,
you know, and I love I love it, but also
you know, it's not the most practical awaking, so I
obviously can't drive it long distances. So I've got a
toy to surf to get me sort of a any
decent places.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Your first what did you say your first lander over
was called?

Speaker 17 (01:43:56):
It was called a free Lander. I think there's not
many on the road now. They were probably probably regarded
as the worst lander of it e.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
It was like, which is not a very high not
a very high bar is it for the worst land drover?

Speaker 17 (01:44:11):
I think most people most lend would agree. There's a
good looking car, and they sold skullings. But they had
some sort of funny toiled drives where they that constantly failed.
So I did get rid of.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Did you buy it new Peter the free Lander?

Speaker 17 (01:44:26):
No, no, I didn't buy me. I bought it ticking
him without proper researching. But it was a good looking car.
You know, there's people loved the things, the early one,
the first first decision anyway. And then then I went
to the defend down now selling. I bought this finished
for nothing on trailing and then posta don't need to restore.
But it does look good and that's one of the

(01:44:47):
old originals.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
It has it got a tray.

Speaker 27 (01:44:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:44:55):
The original you know when they bought them after the
wall and they had left their out minium from building spits.

Speaker 12 (01:45:02):
It was the story.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
But so you say you can't if you're not if
you'd taken it into the country.

Speaker 17 (01:45:09):
Well, I've taken on the motorway sometimes I live in
the city. But it's you know, if you ever driven
an old car, especially and without power steering, and the
steering is you know, there's a bit a sort of
fifteen degree place you can't really You've got to concentrate,
You've got to sort of hang on to the dare steering.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
Wll you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
Remember now I have driven one. Yeah, it's I drive
one for about a weekend.

Speaker 25 (01:45:34):
I do.

Speaker 17 (01:45:36):
Yeah, there's a story in the paper that someone tried
to drive out up the steps that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
I've got.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
But we'll hang on the gear shift on the floor
or column shift and.

Speaker 10 (01:45:51):
It's it's on the floor.

Speaker 17 (01:45:54):
The peoples go right through the force. So you've got
to sort of stamp on them as I think the
next model that they realize that, I think a lot
of things they realized that they can improve, which I've got,
and it's it's a lot of fun that someone will
have it. You know, someone there might he must see advertising.

Speaker 2 (01:46:12):
Do you want to sell it or you just or
you've got to.

Speaker 17 (01:46:18):
It's probably years on it. It's probably time to move
into some other hobbies, you know. But but you know,
it's one of those things some people someone someone I
count up to it and said, are there worth about
seventy thousand pounds in the UK? And then but you
it's a difficult one to sell because you get a
lot of purists out there that will pick pieces.

Speaker 27 (01:46:38):
You know.

Speaker 17 (01:46:38):
You know he hasn't got this original Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
God, you wouldn't want to because there worth one hundred
thousand or it could be twenty thousands, you know.

Speaker 17 (01:46:46):
So so I thought I just lifted and I think
I'd say, you know, open the office, maybe a perhap
tray for a small house and central otag or something
like that, just to be you know, I don't want
to know.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
He must be.

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
Advertised, makes sense. I've tried Japan with the rare cars.
That's what they're doing for what and what cars are
going down to for in Japan. But for a while
there they'd buy anything, weren't they, Or scooters or something.
Twenty two to eleven fourteen four Penrith have scored Lee
Martin Lear. Martins had his haircut too, which is good.
But anyway, get in touch with you want to talk
Marcus till twelve. What a great player he is, Marcus

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Google Cube car turned into a pickup a fashionable thing
to do in Japan. They look great, carry as much
as a Ranger. The land Rover Freeland. They had the
worst safety review Marcus in this and cube looks like
a Lego car. Imagine a Lego man driving it. That

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would be a laugh. James Duneden. Marcus worst car ever
drove was my father in law's mid seventies to hold
in Tirana. Had a tiny four cylinder engine plus automatic
and c G conversion, so it was gutless, utterly gutless.
With four people, would hardly move. Marcus. We'd a blue

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you may Flower that my parents import her from the
UK and fifty three. It served our family of seven well,
although quite squashed. As I recall Olliott's Marcus.

Speaker 23 (01:48:16):
Good evening, Yeah high, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
Thank you allie?

Speaker 10 (01:48:22):
Best?

Speaker 23 (01:48:22):
Karen, New Zealand, without a doubt, has to be the
classic Landrover Defender.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Yeah, okay, here we go.

Speaker 23 (01:48:27):
You just can't go wrong. So I'm currently driving a
Ford Ranger. It's awesome. Does everything you wanted to do.
But it's just it's got no feelings. There's no nostalgia,
there's no style of land rover office. Now I'll tell
you a funny story. First time I met my wife's grandmother.
She lived in rural Dneeden. She had this beautiful land
Rover sitting in her bark, immaculate condition. Knew like it

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was straight out of the showroom yesterday sort of thing.

Speaker 10 (01:48:55):
And I thought I'd love to get my hands on that.

Speaker 23 (01:48:56):
I tried to buy it off her there and then
didn't want to Barronford. We went packed down. Another time
she'd spotted it for a ride on law Mark and
I was devastated. Sorry, right on roma and a new
set of teeth a good They even pay for a
couple of teeth for a tooth. But still, this thing
would be a huge value. And someone someone got themselves
a bug, and I hope they enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
What I liked about what you said? Hang on, hang on, Ollie,
what you said that?

Speaker 9 (01:49:22):
I like?

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
You said? A Ford Ranger does everything you want.

Speaker 13 (01:49:25):
It to do?

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
What do you want it to do?

Speaker 12 (01:49:29):
I'm a builder?

Speaker 23 (01:49:30):
You see something hanging on My way back from Plymouth
to Wellington. So it's sort of the only car that's comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
And it hasn't got a secure tray though, has it?
Or you could get an after market thing, can you.

Speaker 23 (01:49:47):
That's that they come out and standard with just an
open trade you've got to pick yourself a canopy. So
the's range of options and things there, but a little
bit by carry about a ton of tools in the
back all the time, often gowing up to three tons
and it does everything you want, but it doesn't do
it with the style of a land rover.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
You're you're a track, you're a trade. See you're excuse
because you need that, don't you? If you're a building,
it is there. It's a work cast that works for you.

Speaker 3 (01:50:13):
Is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:50:16):
Gets the job done?

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
Where are you going from me? I'll drive back to Wellington?

Speaker 12 (01:50:20):
Are you so?

Speaker 6 (01:50:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:50:22):
We've got job on it.

Speaker 27 (01:50:25):
Up getting Wellington?

Speaker 12 (01:50:27):
How was you play with?

Speaker 23 (01:50:30):
Beautiful?

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Beautiful in a higher I am cheapest, chraepy. Not to
hear from you, allie. Just fading out a little bit
there and there we go, I Penwrith coming back. They've
scored twice fourteen to eight Melbourne Penworth A lot of
feeling this game. This is the Grand Final last year
repeater where Melbourne underperformed, although it's one of the players

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one fiftieth game too, so Amy Stadium. I'll tell you
what Thunderstruck they played. The whole song Jeepers. Creepers has
really developed much since Thunderstruck?

Speaker 17 (01:51:00):
Has it.

Speaker 13 (01:51:02):
Done?

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
Some songs work in a stadium, don't they anyway? Cars
texts emails Marcus not ugly, but would like to tell
you and yes, even built car was the does go?

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
I had been familiar with this built and fatada West
Coast by the Giles family. Eight built, another thirteen were ordered,
but sadly excess text brought everything to a halt. An
amazing vehicle. If you look up YouTube, even Billy Connley

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has seen it, does go du Zgoye. It's a very
interesting stories about Kiwis trying to locally produce cars. Oh
that might come again with tariffs and stuff. We might
go back to make our own cars. I can't see

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it because we can't even make shoes. What do we make?
E Graham, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 27 (01:52:13):
Oh Marcus. There was a cow I drove once so
well it was like a jeep sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:52:19):
It's called a trekker.

Speaker 27 (01:52:21):
Oh, you supposed to take over the land rover and
the forestry got a lot of them, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
We started off their We started off the hour with
a guy talking about those because he was at land
and Survey. Because two wheel drive it looked but yeah,
it looked. It looked like it was four wheel drive
but kind of loaded the ground and two wheel drive
with small wheels and ever really took off.

Speaker 27 (01:52:42):
It was the wheels were sort of bent in the face.
The thing was it was an h H gear change
and it was behind you. If you were driving on
the right, it was behind you with you had to
change it between the seats at the back sort of
things behind your sort of thing. And they were terrible
things to drive.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
How could a wheel be a strange shape?

Speaker 27 (01:53:06):
Well it was, no, it was round, but it was
pointed inwards.

Speaker 2 (01:53:11):
You know, like rounded, like rounded side like rounded.

Speaker 27 (01:53:16):
No, no, not rounded. It was instead of being square
on the chassis, it was sort of pointed inwards.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
I have to go look at a picture, Graham. You've
got me fascinated by that. I've got some images. Don't
you love Google image search? Anyway? How you're going people
by the way, just fyi, the Trekka has gotten extremely
good and clear website about the car and about its history,
and it's fascinating. Two and a half thousand Trekkers were

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built on his in between nineteen sixty six and seventy two,
seventy percent local content content on a Scoda Octavia station
wagon mechanics at the situation interesting enough, they've now started
importing them into checkers of varkieah reconditioned ones because just
because they can. In fact, the Czechoslovakia, the company, the

(01:54:10):
Scota companies reported them for the museum. One they got
was actually one that was bought by a West Australian
because fifty were exported from New Zealand to Australia. Anyway,
there's a good website for that. Someone's emailed they've driven
a fat Bambina in Scotland had as of sun roof

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to slide back. I mean six foot two. I could
drive it with my head sticking out over the roofline.
Sunglasses were necessary for bugs.

Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
There's something else you want to add, It would be
nice to hear from you. It does go. Some texts
about the does go. Terrible name the U ZG. Well,
it's a funny name, isn't it. But it's not a
serious name for a car. I'm surprised they got texts problem.

(01:55:15):
Someone said, with the wheels point, he is talking about
positive camber. I don't really understand that. Has anyone mentioned this?
And cube came in a seventh seed and that's great, Marcus.
GM just started making a new Hummer and it's electric.
It's got four wheels steering. As it's so big, it

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us enough resources to make three small cars. It's horrendous,
someone says. Someone says, I remember in the USA some
states gave away an AK forty seven with every Hummer sold. Kendle,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:55:53):
Good evening, Hello, Marcus. You had somebody speaking about a
Triumph Mayflower.

Speaker 29 (01:56:04):
Yes, another another one came out. It was larger and
it was called a Triumph Renown and it was very
similar to a royal car.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
They're usually just black and a.

Speaker 5 (01:56:21):
Lot of glass.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
Ih have a look at that? Was it a good car?

Speaker 8 (01:56:27):
Well?

Speaker 28 (01:56:29):
I couldn't say, but there wasn't a lot of them around,
but they were head turners when you did see them.

Speaker 2 (01:56:37):
Oh, yes, they do look quite royal, don't they?

Speaker 28 (01:56:40):
Is now another thing. Six months ago, I purchased a
Honda Civics sixteen hundred turbo and I'll tell you what.
It's eighty five years of age and I've got the

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sporty sort of car. But it is it's quite nice.

Speaker 2 (01:57:08):
What year is it, Kendall?

Speaker 28 (01:57:10):
Uh to what two hundred and sixteen?

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Brilliant? Nice to hear from your Kendle Louise AT's Marcus
good evening?

Speaker 13 (01:57:19):
An evil Marcus?

Speaker 26 (01:57:21):
Yeah, good subject.

Speaker 13 (01:57:23):
I hate this and cubes as I know. I know
two people who have one.

Speaker 2 (01:57:31):
Is it their work card?

Speaker 13 (01:57:33):
I don't know, just no, I just didn't run about.
They're both retired. So one of them's got two?

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
Are they dog people?

Speaker 13 (01:57:43):
Old people? No, not dog people, no, tat people. But
one of them's got a pink one, which is the
only saving crazy that one. But are cars? I hated owning.

Speaker 26 (01:58:00):
Austin Maxi. Terrible looking thing, terrible year, driving it down
to Tailorbll on the West coast.

Speaker 13 (01:58:11):
Back in the early eighties. And you're not gonna believe it,
but did happen? The engine? Mountains broke and the engine.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
Fell cheapest creepers.

Speaker 26 (01:58:23):
Yes, the mechanic they could stop laughing or awful car.

Speaker 10 (01:58:28):
What was happening?

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
What was happening in Taylorville in the early eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:58:34):
I don't know what I was, Whether I was going
to Graymouth or what. But we were living in black.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
Bull o Jeps Creeper as well.

Speaker 7 (01:58:42):
Oh yeah, that's a terrible car.

Speaker 2 (01:58:45):
Blackball must have been fairy interesting in the early eighties too,
I would imagine.

Speaker 13 (01:58:49):
Oh, yes, that's one word for that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:52):
Yees yeah, okay, you should write a bok about that.
I'd read that that would be interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:58:57):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:58:59):
But my first car was a Morris Miner. I was
obsessed with the Morris Miner. My far I said to me, no,
get a Triumph two thousands. But I was a bit
nervous about driving such a big car. So I had
five Morris Miners. And now I absolutely hate them.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Really because I was saying, probably the car that's most
university loved and news would be a Morris Minor because
everyone has it.

Speaker 26 (01:59:28):
I loved it at the time. Now I look back,
I must have need the head read because those cars
cost me so much money. I had breaks fail, I
had steering go, I had the suspension went that the
gearboxes went and they were horrible to drive, disgusting cars,

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and I so bad.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
Why did you buy so many of them?

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (02:00:03):
I got over it in nineteen ninety. That's the last
time I had one, and I sold it. And yeah,
I looked back there, and I can't understand why it
obsist for the dead because.

Speaker 2 (02:00:15):
Because the very they're very rear on the road. Now,
you occasionally see them if there's like a enthusiast group
driving down the bluff. I see them, but you don't
see them that often.

Speaker 13 (02:00:25):
No, I have seen them, and I did join the
Morris Miners Car Owners Club.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
And good bunch of people are bedswervers awful people.

Speaker 13 (02:00:38):
Really.

Speaker 7 (02:00:41):
Really horrible.

Speaker 2 (02:00:43):
Oh yeah, goodness to me. We don't want to feel them.
Wow cheepers. Okay, thirteen past seven.

Speaker 21 (02:00:50):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
Bad cars, Morris Miners. I've enjoyed the discussion about that.
The other ones with the indicators that end up on
the outside, aren't they I'm pretty sure they had those.
Of course, they don't need the indicators on the cars.

Speaker 3 (02:01:01):
Do you.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
Just do what you want? Get in touch. My name
is Marcus. Welcome the cars. We hate the cars you've
the cars you've owned that you've really despised. Owning be
good for young people listening. Wanted to buy a car, Marcus,
Why do people buy horrible cars? Sometimes? I think that
we are thinking when buying that. What are you thinking
when buying that? Like new cars and they have all

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standard features, Marcus, can you tell me what the name
of your song for the intro things? What's they called?

Speaker 13 (02:01:31):
Again?

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
Then I'll text them back. If I can see I'll
do it if I can see my keyboards. It's like
I'm typing like a lot of the texts I were
seeing the text by people half asleep. Pair of Love Celendon.

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