That's right, that might make is, you know what they do, there's no cleaners, cleaners aren't allowed in with a patient's up. Really? Your nurse comes in with their PPE, gives you your food, takes the other food away, cleans the beans. Comes in with your, she comes in with your PPE.
Yeah, perfect. Even with the aircones being switched off. Really? Yeah, so basically all the return air has been blocked and they've got these, you know, you get the portable aircon unit, they put in factories and stuff.
Yeah. I've got little boxes like that that I used to extract the air from the room and it doesn't go back into the aircon system. Wow. I wasn't too, I wasn't, you know, I was a bit, um, I was a bit upset on the Sunday when I had to go to hospital because I really wasn't doing well.
And then I go, I'm leaving the kids at my month with the shit, you're in all the sudden, you know, I could get, if you go, you shouldn't basically never see me again. Yeah, it's fine. And then two nights later when dad got admitted and then they said, the hospital rang you. And I said, my phone upset.
So, what do you need? And they said, well, he's not well and he's not responding well to the, to the nasal prongs, the oxygen, just the normal, just the little tubes. So we've got him on, on the seat cup machine, which is basically a ventilator, but it's, you know, it's a machine pumping air into it with a mask. And the doctor told me straight up, he just said, we will not intubate him or resuscitate him if it goes down to him.
He was clean, he said, at his age, if we intubate him, we have to put him under, put it through the end, there's, he won't wake up from it. Was he in the geriatric ward? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. His problem was that because he was feeling a bit rundown and everything and he didn't take his insulin for two days.
So his blood sugar went to third, which is nearly diabetic coma, right? But that was just him being, he's tired. He's, you know, he doesn't want to get out of bed. He's not eating.
He's not taking insulin that with the COVID. But you know what? They gave him the drugs. They gave him that there's a block that they're using for REM density, which is supposed to stop the COVID again worse.
In fact, they're getting hospitalized, right? Is that even done? Good morning, good afternoon. Good evening, you're listening to the All Talk Car Podcast.
We are back with, unfortunately, for three to four weeks. Hosted by Peter Onus, we've got a little more staff online. I've been looking for a week, a half to send the boys a message. And Roscoe let us online.
I put a post out the other day. Both Halil and I were COVID positive in our respective family. So we'd been off there for a couple of weeks because we'd been to Halil and back. And we thought we'd just sort of talk about it briefly.
It's going to be a bit of a serious topic this week, but it was, I think, something that needs to be discussed. And we'll get into some cars later on. But Mate, Roscoe, you're lucky on the farm. We, you know, Halil and I, we were talking about it earlier.
We don't know how we got it. We did meet up on the day. Can we just go back a step? So I get a message from you idiots pretty much every five minutes.
And I've been busy, obviously, I've been living on the farm. I go back and forward from home, which is under sale. And I don't really have an adventuring to work. I've been about five or six days.
I'm like, shit, these guys have ditched me. They've never been diagnosed. So I said, messy, just a message, just a message. I repeat, I ring Halil.
No one answers. And then about three days later, I get a text message that says, well, I'm on the group chat that we've got. That's just a photo of Halil at the hospital. I've messaged back some shit.
You okay? And it's like, I've got COVID. I'm like, oh, do you know what I can put up? Top blog.
You can do it. I'll go do it. Did you feel bad about eating that? The check was really nice.
And it was at that point that I thought, oh, shit, this is close to home. You guys are not fucking with me. You guys are serious. And you've actually got, you know, I got COVID.
It was a bit of a moment for me where I've been a bit insular and I haven't really, I suppose I haven't really had to deal with it or had anyone. We had scare at work. But other than that, I haven't known anyone that's had it. So I'm very thankful that you guys are okay.
That's the thing now. The numbers are at 1,000 at the time. We bought it at 1,000 a day. And people are now starting to know that someone has got it first hand, like one degree separation where before it was like, yeah, it's out there.
It haven't hurt anyone. It's got it. Yeah. But to talk about friends and that, like, you're just so weak.
But the phone was ringing and you couldn't even look at a screen or a display. And you even talking just took all your energy out of you. And it was even now, like it's been three and a half weeks and I'm still knacking. I went to work twice this week only for a couple hours.
You can't concentrate. You've got no energy. You've got nothing but to do but rest. And it was pretty scary when it actually happened.
And I mean, how you can go into yours later on. But basically I got out of sore throat on the Saturday and I thought, oh, you know, every six months I get sore throat. I talk all day at work. I just sleep it off for a day to go.
I'm ready to go. I'm not joking. I'm not joking. I'm not joking about it.
I'm joking about it. Yeah. I'm joking. You said I got a sore throat when I got COVID and you wrote back.
I can't someone have a sore throat these days. Yeah. I got something I got saying I got COVID. Because we're going to record that weekend.
And I pulled the plug. Yeah. I'm going to record that that weekend. And my wife straight away go get yourself checked.
So that's now the Sunday morning, Monday morning. You get a phone call. You get our text. No, you're basically positive.
And I still didn't believe it. I thought, oh, shit. But my mind went straight away to the family. And so Mary went and got herself checked that morning, Monday morning.
And then she came back positive. Now this is the problem now. We've got the two kids. So both Mary and I know we're positive.
So we're quarantining literally in our bedroom, not wanting to go outside to the kids because we don't know whether they got it or not. And it took two days for someone to come out and test the girls. In one bright spark and yourself was healthy to us. Well, you got a car in the driveway.
Why don't you put the kids in the car and get them tested? I'm almost all hogging, cough, all over. I'm just going to give it to them. So for two days, it was a battle.
We get somebody out here. And then one of the girls was positive and the other one was negative, which caused another problem. The good thing is both of them didn't get sick. But it means that we literally threw us at the quarantine in our bedrooms.
Well, the older child had to literally look after us for two weeks, like leaving food at the door. Yeah, I was funny. It was the first week she was like a waitress sending us texts with menus and what's available. And then the second week she started to become like a prison war and just not going to do it.
This side. So the poor thing, I mean, and we got one toilet in the house. So we basically had to figure out how to use a toilet without infecting our daughter that was well. And we can't be the ingenious technique.
Empty toilet roll holder. So you put that in the door handle so you can turn the handle without touching the door handle. How'd it had wipes with us and basically it was an all-dular to wipe it down and then the Glenn 20 got sprayed by Billy afterwards. So she can use the bathroom and basically we were in our bedroom for about 17 days and it wasn't fun.
It wasn't two weeks in Netflix. I can tell you that. So we'll get to a hilly in a second, but you're at home. You're at home.
You couple of days in. Does it start with like a sore throat or just progressively? Is it like you put your clothes, your eyes and these things just turn around and go right. Hey, let's go.
Let's take him or let's give him a bit of a hard time. Yeah, picture of Buffet. You know, when you go to one of those Buffets in Vegas and there's like seafood, Italian, everything. Yeah, just one corner's got diarrhea, one area's got fevers, the other.
It's like the wheeler was and you get anything and everything. So basically I started off with a sore throat. And then on the day four, I started, sorry for the, you know, the flame was coming out. I thought I'm getting better.
This is still bullshit. I still didn't believe it. And I thought I'm getting better. And then all of a sudden, let's give you some fevers and my body was aches and pains and I couldn't move.
And any sudden movement, you're out of breath. So like I said, at the toilet, going to the toilet, you have to walk like an old man. And once you got there, you're coughing like a motherfucker. And I literally had to sit down to do my business because you've got no energy.
And then it took, you shuffle back to your bed and then you started movement. So you just sort of sit upright and then slowly lie down and then slowly into position because you had a breath for about 10, 15 minutes. And then I didn't eat for nine days. I lost a bit of weight.
And so it went into my lungs and day 10, we had to call the ambulance. So basically you meant to have an oxygen meter and that measures the oxygen levels in your ear. This is where it's very important in that everyone, this is where COVID gets everyone. You lose your breath, your oxygen.
So 94 is the key number. And my wife just checked every hour, waking us up temperature of oxygen levels. And I was hovering at 96, 97. And on day 10 of nine days of night eating, my oxygen levels dropped 87 and she panicked and thought, like, ring in the ambulance.
And basically the ambulance took two hours to get to us. So heaven help you if you cut your arm off or whatever. The airboat came nice bloke. And he basically said, no, you got to go to the hospital.
But do you reckon they're just that busy? Or it's just like I got COVID room on my bowel. If you go to the hospital, a lot of the ambulances sitting there as wards, they got people in there. So they're being occupied.
So basically he said, you've got to go, but do you really want to go down there? It's a mess. So I basically said, no, you know what? I'm happy to stay put you guys.
If you only problems link, triple O, share my wife had to use a machine properly. And that night was touching go. I wasn't like out of breath. Like I wasn't on a ventilator, anything, but the levels were low.
And then after that, I started getting better instead of 14, 15 day mark. And basically you need to have three days without symptoms and then they discharge you. And then you're about to do. Sorry?
They discharged you? Yeah. So basically now this is Mondays, day 16 for me. So I've got the verbal green light, but it took two days for the letter to come.
And so you're, I mean, just to give people a bit of noise like we, you go like what you're leaving. And I'm like, I don't know about that. I mean, it's predominantly, I mean, as I said, I've, I've escaped Sydney. So I don't, I'm not seeing a lot of it, but it's, it's, it's a bit of a hotspot.
I like there's, there's cases, there's big, there's big numbers and whatnot. Are you scared to go out of the house? You're still going to get in our game or is it like chicken box? I've got it.
I'll get it. Yeah. Not now. I'm okay.
But I'm saying is it, is it wide chicken box? They know that you don't get used to getting caught at again and we're immune for six months. So we can't get vaccinated for six months. There's nothing they don't want to get.
Yeah. once. Well, I got a different thing to that. They said that your immunity will, you're not immune for six months, you're just less likely to get it because you've already got antibodies.
But why do they still need to get blood testing three months, check with antibodies, see where they're at? Because some people will shed the antibodies a lot quicker than others. Mum and Dad had their first Astra's anchor shot probably six weeks ago. So that was accident though, one.
Yeah, it did help him, I'll go into that later. But the GP actually said to us this week that they should get their second shot in six like weeks. Because of their age, their bodies may or may not hold the antibodies as much as what other people will. So everyone, everyone that obviously paid your side, everyone that got it, hello everyone, your side that got it, obviously there was a few more on your side.
Everyone's okay, right? Like everyone's coming. Yeah, we've come out all right. Yeah, I suppose that's, I can't forget everything else, right?
That's probably the most important thing. You want to make sure that everyone's okay. Yeah. So basically, my wife was due to get vaccinated the day she got positive.
So she's basically, and I was due to get vaccinated the second week I had it. So we were due to get vaccinated. And everybody out there, you just get the vax because you don't want to go through or be in through. And it's not just physical, emotionally.
There were two nights that I just broke down and cried because I felt like I brought this thing at the house and poisoned my family. Like that's how I felt. And it was, I can heartbreak hearing your kid crying the next room in pain, but we couldn't go out to doing anything. And you felt responsible that you don't.
I felt like shit for two nights. I was sort of sobbing on my own because you got to work, you come back, you know, you don't think you're going to hurt your family, you're going out there to provide and you bring this shit through your house. And that's what the government's going on about. Like it's so you get it, your family gets it.
And that's why they're trying to keep people from visiting and things. Like I get it, I understand it. It's hard. Like my mum was like, without support of family and friends, you got problems because there's no one there to help you.
There's no medicine. Basically my, my mum, she brought food to help us out. And I heard her walking up the driveway basically saying I can't even see my own children. So even her as a parent seeing us is heartbreaking.
But obviously, you know, you had family to bring your food and whatnot, but there's a lot of stories out there with people. I mean, I've got a lot of guys that work for me that, you know, if they were to get it, you know, they're living in Shares with the farmers, six people, I've heard stories of, you know, there's some people that, you know, that someone is positive in their house, and they're living in a car for 15 days because they haven't got to leave and they can't, you know, they don't have the funds to be able to go and leave somewhere else. There's a really big element to, I think there's a big element to it from right across. But you also have to, I mean, there's a lot of social media, there's a lot of shit that goes on about the diseases, realism, I'm not going to get into any of that.
But, you know, we're vaccine, we're vaccine, there's not the conversation that I think we should be having. But I think it's something that's going to catch everyone. It's going to affect everyone. But, you know, some are going to be luckier than others, even in this situation, even in the living situation.
I mean, you know, some people that are on their own family overseas, well, yeah, it's difficult. You know, really good. And this is the other little thing. No, you don't know what you're going to get.
So, basically, mine went from throat to lungs, and I couldn't eat. My wife is an asthmatic. I was packing death that she's going to go into lungs and just literally, I can, my mind would, she's at the end, right? With her, it stayed in her digestive system.
So she would have, I can die for a week and a half. She lost her smell and taste where I didn't. So her digestive system, even now, she's knackered. She gets up at 11.30 in the morning and she's struggling at the moment.
And when our daughter, our youngest, again, kids are a bit more resilient. She was sick for about a week, but she got a rash from head to toe for two days and sort of had flu-like symptoms. It's not the flu. It's a small, it's a small, it's a small, it's a small, it's a small, I'll throw you what whatever it's got.
And some nights it was easier to not sleep because you sleep and it gets into your head. Like, I dreamt one night that I was doing mathematical equations to solve COVID. But I just I don't know how my fucking brain works. Did you solve it?
No, I didn't. But I was getting tired and I just went from it. So I just stared at the reflection from the street lights on the wall just to and rest. Like, you're not relaxing, you're resting.
You're just trying not to move. And it's an ordeal. You're moving and getting out of breath is bloody an ordeal. And then you've got your body's like zero energy.
And basically, after the first week, I started eating fruit and I had a strawberry was mass and cold and you could feel it going through your body, like through your veins. That just the energy from getting some kind of food, you could feel it because your body's literally on empty. It's just and because it's on empty, can't protect itself. That's the problem.
Do you dream about any cars? Well, yeah, the next night I was dreaming about turbo 9 11s. Trying to again, out read COVID. It was all about driving like a.
Yeah, I can't get rid of it. I was coming up with screams about your age. I see. I can tell you that you already told us there's no hot nurses anyway.
Next. We came to the conclusion that I got from my wife. She went and got back on the Monday. So this is like a week before bed that's sick.
All right. But she went back on Monday and on the Thursday, she started feeding unwell. So we rang the hotline and they said normal symptoms flies out side of it. So when I worry, I feel fine.
And then she was well for a couple days and then she was pretty good on the Sunday Monday morning. I want to pick up my mum to take her to get a swab done and meet. But the simple reason that she was going to have eyes surgery on Thursday. No, the reason nobody is unwell.
One gets a negative. The mid afternoon, the result comes back. We went early in the morning by the positive and then George wins me and says it's positive and it's like, well, shit, did I do the peak? You peeked into me.
But then rollers go. And we realized she's been crooks and still is that. And she shouldn't have had those. Mum goes back on Tuesday to get tested again with that coming back positive.
On what, I'm putting out and shooting myself, they're arguing my parents got their age and their healthy, but you know what? We're all good. We're sitting in the backyard sitting in the sun, the fruit, the drink's in water. We're all good.
The missus gets crooped on Friday. So she's now 10 days in. But she's got low blood sugar and low blood pressure because she's dehydrated, hasn't been eating, which hurts you. She's off the hospital for two days, three days on a drink.
Sunday afternoon, my oxygen goes to shit. Do we check in your mood? I was. I bought my own.
Yeah. So some day my oxygen's gone, shit. It's like nine in mine. I do the right thing because I've got the kids that I call me ever.
They say the same thing. They told you. They said, do you really want to go to hospital? So they said, just keep taking big breaths, lie in your stomach and call us again.
And I asked them nicely. I said, can you do me a later and drop, take us to my mum's house? Yeah, they're positive as well. So can you take me and the kids there?
Because at least if I got a share, there's adults there. No props. No props. They did it.
Right? They're happy to do it. Four hours later. I'm really struggling with the break.
That's like having somebody sitting on my chest off the hospital. And I'm more scared that I'm saying, bye to my kids and parents. Because you don't know what they should do. You sit people on day four, they're finding their God.
They got me in there. They got me on the nasal prongs. They said, look, you're doing well. You're hard, right?
Everything else is good. We'll just give you a bit of gas. And I did ask them, I said, can you put me on a drink? Because I feel really weak.
But I'm eating all that, I haven't had anything that I couldn't move. So they sort of that out. They kind of said to me, there's a trial. There's a trial, right?
But it's not because it's called rent-desi-dee. And it's used as more as a blocker to stop you getting worse. It's not a cure. Really?
Yeah. So I said, I've had good success with it and it's a blocker. And now there's a tablet version. I think they're giving them other people to kick them out of hospital, right?
One side face the posse. So all good. They said, we're going to move you up to a ward, because we're just, you're oxygen's ordinary. We're going to keep eating.
We're going to find cold Monday out. That's all the way to hospital. That's what I should talk about. So dad's now awake in.
He's not feeling well. No coughing. No, nothing. No, it's a pain.
It's not a failure. But he's lethargic. You know, he's tired. That's the pain.
He's insulin. That's good. That's good. That's 30.
That doesn't know where he is. So it's worse for diapics. Oh yeah. Well, what happens is you're not eating drinking because you don't feel well.
And you don't have any jaw. So he's like almost like diabetic shot now. He doesn't recognize anyone. He's not responding.
He's not talking. They get him on the trip. They store his blood sugar out. They stabilize that.
She's like, I'm going to get a phone call from the hospital. No, I'm in hospital. It's ringing me because they can't get in touch with men. And they tell me that his breathing is really poor.
They really want to ventilate. But not the intubated one. No, you're having pretty Mandarin for the puberty. But he's got a, he's not going to shame.
It's pumping air. It's annoying. Like, then you're going to bury these guys by itself. Now, if you're bleeding, not me, but mom.
We're locked in. We're locked in. We're locked out. We are in the luckiest country on the planet.
That remdesivie is a seven and a half thousand dollar treatment for a week per person. He was in Greece, Turkey, wherever else at his age. Pack it up. Make it win a day.
So this is the thing. I don't want to get too political. He's home now. He's dropped him.
And this is the politics. They dropped off a 90 year old man with COVID to his house and let him in. They won't drop him off to my house because his license says that's where he lives. And right at the bed, banks down the place because no one else will talk to me.
And on the Monday morning, being still positive, they escorted me from Green Acre. They dropped, followed me to no care. Got my dad any stuff and brought him back to Green Acre for two ducks until mom got discharged. So he would be in home by himself?
He would have been home by himself. He could drop off and no one. Yeah. That's a thing.
That's what I was saying earlier. If you buy yourself a network, you're finished with this. He's elderly. You can't communicate that well on the phone because it's not called hearing.
But the health system itself, the doctors and nurses, amazing. Of course, there's a few things I want to say as well. The Children's Hospital was amazing. So we're with the little ones.
They really made an effort and if you asked them a question, they had the answer. The police were good. They came around six times to check to make sure we're home. But they also, they came and unmarked cars.
They didn't walk around the house making it obvious that there's a problem. And they'd ask, you know, you okay? Do you need anything? So they were pretty good as well.
They just kept coming. That's the problem. But New South Wales Health, they got a problem. The other thing I learned is the testing clinics.
Not all clinics are the same. You've got a situation where some clinics are privatized. And what happened with us is we got the results from the clinic and they said, yeah, you're positive. But they never told New South Wales Health for four days.
So New South Wales Health had no idea that we had COVID because the government did provide you with a care pack. And that's got the oxygen meter and things like that. Luckily, we got a family friend of ours, Dr. Toulan, who basically kept the scene and so it was giving us daily updates with what we got and what's going to happen.
And basically she arranged for us to get oxygen meter because, and then the government rings us a week later and says, we've run out of packs, you know, getting one. I got it on day 13. The day after I got home from hospital, it was on my back wall. Yeah, but the Children's Hospital arranged the pack on day 11.
So do you think that's because, I mean, guys, there's a lot of people. I mean, we went through it when we had, you know, dealing with New South Wales Health, they ended that and they're basically pulling people from everywhere to try and do jobs. So they're not, I mean, I mean, I'll say they're not paying for it. But they have no budget at the moment, right?
Forget about forget about the budget. You had to do it. It's like asking you to do a thousand deliveries, a thousand bucks deliveries for thousands of different people and you're going to have a half a truck and no time to do it. They have the budget to go and get a hundred more people for calls in it.
Yeah, no, I know that. But I don't think people are, there's a lot of people that aren't that honest as well, if they've had it. I mean, if it's stories of people that have had it and they're out and they're using it. These are the people who are testing positive that are being communicated to.
Forget everyone else. You talk about it's supposed to be communicating with you by phone because that's the whole hospital at home. You're wrong. Just saying maybe there's not no people to do it.
Well, they need more people on the phones. If you need a 30 more staff to work 20 hours, whether or not you made money, you could have the bond the budget. That I need to. And it took me, so you think about it, it took me and my wife and my former complaints to get our clearance letters.
I got my money. I was talking about some of it. And then I had to ask my mum and dad, who hadn't heard from yourself myself. And they probably weren't going to complain.
Well, their contact number and details is made. The I've got nothing to do. My mum and dad, if my mum and dad could sit and have the six months waiting for them, the bureaucrats and politicians are fucked. The nurses and the doctors make up triple virus.
Yeah, they do. I mean, it's telling everyone, it's tough on them. Look, I'm glad you guys are all good. Everyone around is good, right?
That's probably the most. We're getting them. Yeah. It's my throat to be croaky.
I actually feel like today I actually got really, I didn't get too runky out. I did a bit of running around the weather was warm. I was in the car. So actually today I'm pretty good.
I went for my first drive after three weeks. What'd you tell me? Which car? Come on, Max.
The CLS. It started. And I was so naked. I went up the methane strip on the human highway.
Really? Yeah, I just went to Strathorn back MPP, I box pay bills. And I was rooted just driving 40 minutes. But yeah, because you've been, I mean, you're probably just your whole body's just not used to moving, right?
You're not moving. You've been lying down pretty much 80% of the time. You know, when you've had it, you know, when you've had it, I could have just imagine, you know, when you've had the flu, the three of four days and you're in bed, but it'll be multiplied by 1000. Multiply.
Yeah. And I was at the time. Oh, not as much as before. So, I sleep right through our sleep a lot longer.
I've also got. He didn't notice you were stealing the donuts of his doorsteps. He's fine. But the other thing was I, because we didn't have access to the bathroom, I look like a Greek Russell crow.
So that'd be quickly quickly. I was going to ask you whether the soundscames on. Yes. So, yeah.
I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, sorry, I don't know. Well, you guys have been, well, you guys have been resting for two weeks. It's been doing nothing. Watching Netflix.
I've been flin' out. I mean, I switched, I ended up, I'm about an hour's drive every, every day, right? To the family, if I go back to Sydney. And I've been, my dad's car was in.
I'll give my dad's car and he's got a B-way. The B-class, yeah. The B-class, but the B-way. It's only a couple of years old.
It's cruising. I thought, oh, this is shit. There's enough power. I've come out of the X-5.
I was in the canyon. I just, I was just horrible. But I didn't want to put the Ks on my car. It was, well, this thing only has 20,000 Ks.
But I'm going to thrash this one to the next go. It's a day two. I texted a Trent. A Trent, where are you?
D-Moss from E-Tunas. Oh, no. Where are you? Yeah.
Where are you? To the new place, too. Yeah. And, yeah.
Mate, that thing from, from apparently the B-180 is a D-tuned 200. Ah, okay. It's the same car. Yeah.
So, I was a bit more excited. I ordered some coilovers for it. Does your dad know? Well, then I, I shouldn't say I'll go back and start doing all of them.
I sent messages back and forward. How low can I go? Can you custom build them? No, hang on.
I'm only driving this thing for another three weeks. Stop. Stop. I was going to put some massive wheels on it and slam it and do all of them.
No, good job. Can I help myself? Can I pay? No.
We've got changes to the fleet. We sold the Bentley. Bentley. Yeah.
Oh, maybe it was too big. Yeah. We made a couple of dollars on it. So, it's good.
But we bought something else. A carola? No. A Ford Capri Turbo with a hard top.
Like, like, with 90,000 Ks on it. So, I'm with the round lights, mate. You know, the square ones. It's a series two.
So, it's not the first. Is it longer? Is it longer? No, it's it longer?
That's why. Why? Is it automatic? No, manual.
I'm going to drive it. This will have to drive it. Yeah, my brother will drive it. I want to drive it.
I'll be around. When I was growing up, I always wanted a Ford Capri. Yeah. Well, we'll do a live drive it.
Oh, only two of us can go. Oh, no, that's to the back. No, that's it. Does it?
Yeah. I thought I'd make it happen. I only had the club sport that didn't go back. Yeah, the club sport at that back, maybe all plastic.
So, did the club sport still have a back seat? They just put that shoe thing on the back to make it look like Porsche? I don't know. Yeah, it looked like a backmobile.
I've been looking at the W113 Merks. And they've got a third seat. There was a third seat as an option. You sit sideways in the back.
Which one is this? To the W113. What are the same three ones from the eighties? The Mercedes of two-door convertibles.
The one Richard G drives in one of the movies. The Squier she's a convertible one. No, no, no, the 230 SLs. Oh, the pagodas.
The pagodas. Yeah, the pagodas. There's a side seat in the back. It's an eye.
I had a chance to buy a bag. I've heard this story because I had the same chance. Yeah, my wife gave me the green light. How?
$40,000 for a 250 SL back in 2001. Yeah, I know. That it. And now?
And now? We've got a Capri Turbo. That's the same money. Right.
My Capri, Capri, Capri was interesting because Ford brought the Cap, oh, anyone that is losing Australia is going, all these guys are all something else. They're talking about anyone that is obviously going, Ford Capri, what the frickin' hell is that thing? The Capri was like for those that don't know. The Capri was like, Ford's really shitty version of the MX5.
Is that the best way to go? Not even. It was front-wheel drive. Now that you've bought one, pizza, Ford Capri, Capri, Capri.
So basically, it was called that in America and sold in the States as a Mercury Capri. What was it sold in the States? It was for America. So what they did, you don't buy a Series 1.
So what Ford Australia did was built six months, the Australian ones, to get iron out all the problems. They all had leaky roofs. And then the Series 2 is the one that go onwards. Right.
So it's a Ford Laser. It's a Ford Laser. So it's a Shazio Verlazer. And the Turbo is the Laser TX3 Turbo.
But it's only front-wheel drive. And iron-wheel drive. And the front-wheel drive. Yeah, now that he put the TX3.
I distinctly remember when they moved from the Series 1 to the Series 2. Because I think that's 14 or 15 when I was, oh, you had that 14 or 15 when they came in the car. And it went from the orange light to new newer Series 2 because they had the clear lights. They didn't have orange light.
Yeah, no, no. So this is still got the red- Red, red, white, and black. And the badges on the light. I'll tell you what I did.
Because I was in, when it came out, I was in year 12. And I wanted a car. So I went to the Ford dealer on the human highway and got a price up, a turbo capri, with a USC kit from Ford. It came out of a USC kit.
It came out of 35,000,000, 35,000, 90, 90. And again, it's an MX5. You can give me a note up. And an MX5 was 38.
And the MX5's rear will drive and fucking a lot better on the gearboxes of gearbox. I'm here to drive it. I saw it the other day, I went down to the layer and level two, how? If you go to work.
Well, don't worry. Yeah, going through the level two of the car wash-ins. We're fucking marbles. We're asking some marbles.
Fuck it. That's exciting. What do you like, can't you? It's a bit busy in here.
I picked up my car today. We're from the workshop. What do you do now? Make it back to standards.
What was wrong with it? I think it's taken eight months. It's what happened? Got COVID, too.
What did you do? I thought you were keeping it standard. Yeah, it's pretty standard. I can like it.
I took a look, but it's a drive. This thing, we just got put some formula that I've got before we chuck it on the dyno and shoot it. I can do that. I put some columno on that.
This thing should be made. Is your car manual or what? It's the one. It's the one.
It's the one. I drive. It should get up. A couple of days today.
I've had everywhere traffic motorway. Within your five kilometer LGA? Yeah. Yeah.
It's all around the search. It's run around. It drives. It drives.
On the motorway you don't hear it. They keep you back the right car. They give you the right car. They give you the right car.
I do the right car. They give you the right car. I do. I do the right car.
I do the right car. I do. I do the right car. My basic house of L.S.
L.S. But is that a house of L.S.? I was listening to the car. It's a little bit closer.
We're talking close to $1000. Standard. That wouldn't cost $1000. I would be.
Yeah. But it drives so dark. Like you weren't spending money for two weeks. On a freeway.
On a freeway. Just sits on 110 and you wouldn't know this car had been touched. That's good. Even in traffic.
It's a bit noisy, a little bit droning at low speed, I can't wait for the be sorted and just jump on. Well, line it up with the Capri. Well, I had an experience this week with the dish. It was just a little bit of a deal.