Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, listening to the All Talk Car podcast hosted by Peter Rodders and tonight I'm with Tom the Rodding Report. Good day. I've got security on the couch. He's back in the place.
And we've got an audience. Hello. We can clap. I've got an hour to come out.
So back at Tom's workshop today. Yes, yes, we just had finished dinner and we're watching my son with Tim. So Tim, Tim, so basically for those overseas, they said there's Tim Tam's Australian chocolate. I've got.
It's a iconic brand, Google Tim Tam. So basically it's like two little shortbreads with a cream filling in the middle and it's chocolate coated. So what we do in Australia is you bite one corner and the opposite corner and you put it in a tea or a coffee or a milk and you drink it like a straw. You suck it through it.
Melted Tim Tam, then as soon as it gets to the point where it's melted so you can still actually hold it, you're throwing it in your mouth and you eat it. That's what I was going to say. I've never, we're going to attempt it with plenty of water. Yeah, my son's attempting it with water.
Oh, it's not going to work. How's it going to melt through? Oh, he fums up. He fums up.
So basically, that's the part I've never done it. I was like, I can't drink milk, right? You don't know what you're missing out on. But what are you building your fucking head?
What are you doing? No, you've got to get to look. I'm an expert at this, right? Yeah.
I'm bas at the artwork. It won't drop from my hands. Yeah, you know it's a podcast. It's not on YouTube yet.
No, no, I'm just moving. No, no, I'm bas at the artwork. I know just before it's going to fall apart. I think you're scooping it out.
I'm scooping it in your mouth. So much milk or how much do you get to drink? No, it doesn't take a look for the... Oh, so it's not like a tool.
No, I've heard about it. I've heard about it. I've never seen it's... It doesn't take a look for the...
Oh, so it's not like a tool. I've heard about it. I've heard about it. I've never seen it.
Anyway, you should try and it is something different. It is nice. And whoever forwarded the idea, got on. Can you buy Team Sam's in America?
Well, American have got their grocery stuff here. I want to have a straight. They'll have a Tint-A version. I think they do.
You're heading over there. I'm heading over there. Why don't you take a nice case or a pallet off? I'll have Tint-A-M's.
Yeah. And hopefully... Maybe you can do it as you're judging every night. You can actually get your judge table.
You can actually get your judge table. You can represent Australia. It's not too tame enough. It's too tame enough.
I think Koalas will have a pack of boxers. I think they're handing it out. I should be handing it out. I'm the judge.
I should be getting bright. Here we go. He's trying to suck us. Tastes like crap.
Oh crap. So he's trying to drink it with water. Calm water. And you're lying out.
You can see your face. It tastes like crap. Anyway, it's the last episode, Tom. Just to fill you, we drove E63s.
And I was talking... Because last time we drove an S63. Yes. And I was comparing the E63 with the S63.
Is it S63 better than an E? No, I reckon that they're telling different cars. The E63... Wait, here's a good guy putting a fair amount of it.
What's more expensive? The S63. So this? So this is like...
What you want to do when you drive? By the way, I did listen to it, but I fall asleep. Because I listen to it. Is it my soft tyres that put you in the bed?
Is it like I've been squeaked sweet and nothing's going to be... Well, it ain't me lying next to you. I've heard how loud you're starting this. So you can do it.
Well, look, I got invited to go to Vegas with Peter and he goes, listen, you can either have the same room with me, but you know what's going to happen or if you want to sleep, you better book another room. I tell you what. And I've got them saved. I went to a floating tank.
I did that a couple of weeks ago. Where you lie in a tank. Have you got that for two days? No, no, no.
I went. So you lie down in a tank and you float. Have you been on these floating tanks? No.
And you're so relaxed it holds your body up. Yeah. And you fall asleep. And the glass shut.
No, no, no, no. I had E plugs for my ears and I wore it again. Because you're lying down on the water, right? So I had these super duty E plugs, but you can hear the music in the water.
And then after an hour, a voice comes on. It's time to get up. And then the voice is still on. But then when I pulled out the E plugs, you realise how much time I was.
So if you do sleep with me in the same room, different beds in Vegas, I don't know which he plugs to get you. OK, I'll remember that one. Supposedly because apparently I snore. But I've never heard myself snore.
We have a bathroom. Yes, we did. That's right. It does.
The bathroom is the last coming up. The six hour bathroom. People say it wasn't saying that people say it was an day. But we went back to our room for a little for yesterday.
It was the raw coming down the mountain. It was coming from our room. Yeah, because the room was. We said that we were going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to the track.
It was the raw coming down the mountain. It was coming from our room. Yeah, because the room was. We said that we were going to be going to be going to be going to the track.
You guys were arguing that most of the room is louder than the car. It was. It was. It was.
You feel it? You feel it? You feel it? You feel it?
You feel it? You feel it? You've got the old pillow out. It's going to quiet you down.
You put the sofa in. So that's what happened. So how did your drive go? So basically that's what happened to the E 63.
So the E 63 is like an angry horn. I said how my brother had one. An earlier one. Like the engine.
The E 63. The E 63. This was when the S was all dry. But it was just ferocious.
It was vicious. You hit the accelerator and this thing is loud at farts and it was standard. It wasn't about eight seconds. It's a quick car.
How many of us are called? What's the 4? I don't know what the quarter mile is. It's 10.
So. You're like that one. Security. Security is soldies.
I'm not even able to get to the security because I've talked about that. So basically when we drove the S class it wasn't as loud and angry. But it was like a it was a cruise missile. Like you went quick.
Pete to tell you that day in the car. You were shooting a starship myself. I don't remember much of it. I was looking at my first date.
I'm like, Rick, my first date with Rick and you know. We were scared. But tell you what. It wasn't making those.
It wasn't making the neighborhood. Yes, farts. Different road. Yeah.
No. You would go slailing them. So what do you call them? Yeah.
No. I think the E 63 is an angry, a fast, a bigger car. It's really a lot lighter than the S class. But the S class, because it's an S class, you're paying more for what's inside it rather than what's outside it.
I mean, it's still a high performance car. But the E 63, that is the grandad. Other than the GT, the AG, the hoops and the. They're all dry.
And that four-door coupe thing that they built. Like they're stuck at another level. But for a sedan that's based on at least 200. It's about a 2007.
Yeah, it was a last of the one before they just got updated. So it was. Everything's got an electric thing up. When you walk into.
That's what we said. The C class is going to the two litre four cylinder hybrid to those. I walk into the Mercedes by San Francisco City Mercedes a lot. Yeah.
Or everything's turning the electric. Yeah. It's going that way. And they're working on the 48 volt charger and things like that.
So these are the last of the big V8 that we described it. But what I want to speak the security about. So we talked about it back as well. We had the Vino van.
You know what I was thinking? You sold it. Why the? It's not a Vino van.
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No wonder. It was really, really difficult. Yeah. Of course.
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I Yeah, so what do you want to wag in for? And that one wagon that we saw was one of the two-hundred grains. Remember that wagon? For the C-class.
For a C wagon? A sixty-four. A sixty-four. A sixty-three.
The E-six-three is like the 1990 motor one. Or before the phase, the last phase of the thing. They want to be 200,000 for them. Yeah.
The 300,000, the 2020. And was that a problem for you? Yeah, my name is Peter. He's Peter's not the rawness.
You sold a video van. Well, why don't you catch that? No, I lost money. Hang on.
The only guy that sold the car was here lost money. I don't make money on a car. That's true, you know. I had a hundred twenty-six thousand, I sold it for you too.
Yeah, I'd rather make money. It hurts you. It hurts you knowing that everybody else has a car. If you're the cus' gone, up except for a V though van.
With windows. And a G kit. Anyway. It was a good van.
We're gonna look for a waggle for you. And we can do a test drive in there. We'll test drive this. And we'll do the negotiations for you.
And you're gonna give a surprise. Commission. Yes. Yes.
A fine-dance fee. Nice one we want. We'll just take the cover off. We want a nice colour.
So yeah, so that's A and Gs. And we can't stop smiling. You know, driving. Like a maniac.
You are a maniac driving. Yeah, I know. But last night we only drive it was how we all had the keys. So, and then in two days time we'll pick up a Tesla.
We've got the Model Y coming. So from noise to silence. So we'll see how that goes. We've got that for a couple of days.
And everyone's gonna take their family and see which family survives the silence. So that's a... It's a difficult. When you're actually accelerating and driving on the...
The very first time I ever got the repair one, we actually, my daughter, my son and myself went to town to pick it up. And all the way back I had to hurry up. I had to go to the floor. So I was driving and the...
It was a lot less. Yeah. It was one of the first ones I got. But this is a long time ago.
Yeah, yeah. Right. The difference in your head what it feels like when you accelerate the torque. So talk.
You can feel it. You've driven a lot of fast cars. And it kills your head. Yeah.
You're looking like the 24 hours. It's a different kind of speed. The body's not used to it because the body's got... It's used to the sound.
It's used to the noise. It can't get the gearbox. I mean you're thinking it would matter, right? But it does.
It does matter. I've seen that much acceleration. G-forces without the sound. Well I've seen a thing on TikTok.
I'm addicted to TikTok since Baffes since the kids put it on my phone. Yeah. And what was that show? England, the guys.
The... Tocky. Yeah. They had a race, Tesla, Lotus or three cars, right?
The Tesla. C63 I think it was. Yeah. And some of the car.
The Tesla had them all the way to the finish and right at the end of the work just beat them. Yeah. All their power and acceleration is off the mark. But then it runs out of puff towards the time.
Yeah. But still. And not only that, even the performance ones, because I think the model we're getting is not a performance, they're still pretty quick to like 70, 80 Ks. Because you're not going to get 100 in city driving.
You want that instant acceleration when you're changing lanes to 60. That's it. Look honey, there's a parking spot. No, no, you get out and you press the button and it parks by itself.
I think so. Because they've got the two Tesla charges at where I'm at work. And you're seeing the Tesla charges are sponsored. And there's two next to each other.
How the fuck did they go into themselves? Maybe it's like across the road either, park on the other. Over the other, the job. Yeah.
That's it. The job, though. Do we speak better last time? We just spoke about it later.
Yeah. So, are they putting the no standing signs for the... No, they have no... Any nice standing.
No, I'm asking. I can go there and fuck every electric cupboard is not happening. It doesn't look like it. It just looks like a bus shelter without any room.
Well, the guy was here the other day and then when I got to the other street, I remember what you said. Pull him out and say, it's auto. Yeah. And I'll freak him through.
That's right. We'll find him. He'll track him down. He'll track him down.
He'll track him down. He'll track him down. He'll track him down. He'll track him down.
If you've been... If you've been, one of those? For the audience, he's noticed the other one's complaining is security and... They could be reasons for that.
Yeah, because we're the athletes of the group. So basically, I've never been one. Except for what's seen as if they put a sandbag on my leg so my leg doesn't move. Yeah, they put like a sandbag for weight.
And I'm not going to want it to be my leg. But just said that... For 20 minutes, when you're here, you're going to want to move the beat. No, no, it was a sandbag and it was tight.
They strapped it in and I had headphones on and I'm thinking, I don't know if I've claustrophobic but I didn't go head first. It was feet first. And this thing is fucking loud. But I just close my eyes.
It sounded like... If I get your gun, I would have done the Gilligan Island. Oh, yeah, no. They put their own bloody music on.
But it sounded like... Yeah, those weird noises you hear in an airplane when it's sort of landing. I like crashing. When they're putting the car going in the air.
It sounded like that but it just kept going and going and going. So, yeah, we'll see what's inside the window. Nothing. Nothing.
No, there's probably stuff wrong with it. It's something wrong with it. So it's Swalam, big time. Oh, there's a click.
I reckon there's no cartilage left. It's a cricket injury. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it.
I still have a couple of you playing cricket. No, cricket. I need no cricket. I want to say why he played for Australia.
I had my reasons. It doesn't mean... No, it wasn't because of the names because I didn't want to in a particular country. I want to say which country.
They never picked me for Australia. And I've got people on that in their country. My wife records it could be ability but I'm just kidding. It was because of my political stance.
So, yeah, that's what happened to me today. I'm sort of hobbling along with Swalam. And the last time I swelled up is when I was able to see his driving manual for a week. The Clutch.
Really? Yeah, it swelled up. I'm not sure what exercise. That is exercise using a Clutch.
True. That is exercise. Hold on, then. That's why.
Because with my other leg it's just accelerated down and up. That's it. There's no constant changing. So, anyway, I decided to go with getting them flooded cars toned out.
Oh, yeah. So, I update. So, basically, you had... We couldn't open the boot.
I got the boot open. You had to go back. But we did everything. We googled.
There's no coo-hole. We ripped the plastic off. Then we got told to go through the center console and there was a big metal plate. No.
That was there when you went back. I happened to have one here at work. So, I'd stick the back seat down and have a look where the cable went. There's a little hole in the parcel shop.
So, I took a knife with me. I cut a hole in the parcel track. To find the... Put my little figures down there.
Pull the cable. It applies. Grab the cable. Yank it.
Obviously, down. Done. So, and it worked. Because you can't open the seat without the boot open.
And you can't... People were saying, hit the button in this. There's no... No, there's no...
The cars fight. So, basically, what happened is two insurance companies. I'm not going to name them. So, basically, they keep ringing me.
And I don't know which one. They're all just tots. They don't say who they're from. A local towing company.
And I've got the first mob. You have to move the C class first to get to the E. Because the way they all parked in the carport. So, basically, the insurance company was for the E-cap ring and ring and ring.
I said, wait. I'm going to get the C up. And then you guys can do the E. So, the first company went out yesterday.
So, the C. And they... I said, go out there. Have a look at it.
It's a big fucking job. Because they're driveways narrow. And they're parked 90 degrees. The driveways.
And they've got to pull them out and turn. They've got the pole from the... the floor upstairs. The carway.
Yeah. Carport. So, what happened was, he rang today. He goes, mate, it took us four guys.
The trolley jacks from the workers, the concrete saw cracked. We'll get out of neutral because it's an electronic gearbox. Handbrake's locked on. Handbrake wouldn't get released because it's electronic.
The car's full of water and fucked. So, basically... Twice as ever, you know. They...
I don't know how they pulled it to get it to face towards the road of the drive. And then I took photos and sent it to the owner. I said, basically, they dragged this car about 40 meters up. Up your driveway.
Steep driveway. And he said to me, we had six inches on either side. We'll look at other fence in the house. And, mate, you just see they dragged this thing all the way up.
They're lucky. And then the other insurance company, because I thought it was the first one, she was going to rank it this morning, like, yeah, mate, the gate's open, get down there. You're really back half an hour, and goes, oh, we can't fucking do this. Yeah, yeah, my mistake.
I said the second company. I said, mate, it's good that you're there. Take some photos, go back and work out how you're going to do it. Okay, that's your job.
So, they haven't run me back. So, and that one's where it's back against the house. They are. And the front right was flat.
I went last night. Really? Yeah, the front right tie is flat. No problem.
No problem. We're already done all that. We did all that. We did that.
We salvaged what we could for the owners. So, that was the update with the insurance company. Did anyone write any emails about Billy Gonzales? No, no, no, no emails.
No emails. I was thinking about the brainwatch today. The brainwatch? That was a fuck up, baby.
That was from the 70s. That worked. You had the bum? Who was doing the sun?
In real life. Yeah, the father's gay. Is he in real life? What?
He was one of the first people in the head. Really? Yeah. And the young kids are probably different.
They're probably junkies or in jail. They're probably junkies or in jail. They're probably much a monster. Yeah, they're not.
And they had the... Not the nanny. What was the... The housemate.
She was a lesbian for sure. Yeah, she was a boy. And the butcher was the butcher. Which are?
Yeah, but she was only doing the free-air cutler. You're gonna get the hair cutler. You're gonna get the hair cutler from the family? No.
No. I don't know. I'm just trying to remember. All those guys reminded Gilligan's on.
They had the fake grass. Yeah, that's the fake grass in the backyard. Yeah. Well, it is a movie set.
It was actually a movie set. Remember, packed to the rafters? No. This is...
Again, everyone knows. Brady Bunch packed the rafters in Australia series. It went for about four or five seasons. And they filled all the outside shots down at Cars Park.
Down at the signing club. Down there. That's sad Susan in all that area. So, all of it was based there.
But the actual houses were in Cabarita. Really? Yeah. And just by mistake, not even you.
By mistake, I drove through this back street. It got on my house. Nothing fucked up. That was something that pulled up.
And it was the house from packed to the rafters. And the front yard is synthetic grass. I've never seen back to the rafters. The reason why they...
And I read up, but the reason why they had synthetic grass was to keep the filming consistent. So, if you're filming back there, the grass looks consistent rather than having cut it. Talking about grass. For editing.
Since you go on the Vegas, I heard that the government over there is banning real grass. What do you baning real grass? Because it takes up too much water. And because they've got water research.
Oh, there's a desert. Yeah. They don't want people to have real grass. They want people to have no unique capitalities.
And apparently, there's one for you. There's no fucking grass because they're broken. Or there's grass there. But they're trying to not ban it.
But put people off incentives to grow no grass. No grass. Is it sinavaros? Yes.
Because they've got big rocks. Yeah, they've got big rocks. Actually, when you go to the dam, you see how low the dam is. You see the line where it originally was.
It's pretty bad out there. But you could bring a vanes up and you come. I don't know. The last couple of hours have found a few shuck up stage changes.
The last couple of hours have happened. It was so good happens. Because I've hired a Camaro. It looks like a knife to change.
Because we went all through the Camaro. So, I don't have to get some kind of lemo. Oh, no, it's new. Alright.
We've said it before. I'm off to Vegas in a couple months time. Before seeing that, we're going to do a few reports there and some interviews. And Ross doesn't know.
I'm not telling you that it's surprising. But it's not that it listens to the shuck. So, he doesn't know that I'm judging there. So, I'm not telling.
We're also going next week. I don't know if we're going to record there. But we're Ross and I have been invited to the launch of the EQS. The new electric Mercedes.
The big one. The S-Class now. The C-C-N-E. Oh, really?
Yeah. So, we're going there next week. So, another news coming up. I don't know if we're going to interview anyone there.
But we'll probably talk about that in a couple episodes time. I don't think we'll be able to get our hands on. That's like a threat. That's not a car.
Maybe. I know a lot of people there now. Yeah. Okay.
So, maybe we can organize live drive next door as day. And don't forget next week we're going to go and visit our old friends, Rick Shawl and Tom Shawl. Yeah, we've got that coming up too. So, we're going to catch up with our Tom's performing in his RX8 series and his dreams drive a TCR car.
So, I don't know how that's going along. But, I mean, money's the only barrier there. It's not going along. Money's the root of all evil.
Money's the root of all evil. Money's the root of all evil. No, no, no. Money's not going to end up saving.
No. Money's not going to end up saving. As I say, no money, no honey. No money, no honey.
And when you look at the amount of reason, even if any formula, one, two or three of the drivers are pay drivers. They're not. Everyone's paid. They're paying for the seat.
So, that's F1. You know, that's 20 drivers. You think that's the pinnacle of racing. So, there's nothing said a while back.
In the whole world, there's only 100 drivers that are paid. If you think about it, if you look at F1, who are the pay drivers? The top 4 or 5? You've got Verstappen, Hamilton, the Ferrari boys.
Yeah, he's getting money too, but he's just not the one that he used to be. No, well he changed his attention. No, he's a bit McLaren, but he won a race with McLaren last year. But he's just getting out pointed it out qualified.
Anyway, but that's why they said when you're young, you're going to a corner, 110%. You're going to get older, you're going to that corner, you know? 92%. Yeah, and it's all milliseconds though, F1.
They're all literally milliseconds apart. So you're recognizing he's like, is he's making some wrong choices with teams? He's just your stay, Red Bull. He would have been up there.
I don't know. He would have been like a king. Anyway, that's when he took the 20 minute round. That's what I mean.
It's all about money. Do you want 20 minute or 20 minute? I'll take it. You want to give me 20 minute.
Well, I'll change teams straight away. I would have a problem. I don't think the car would be able to drive it fine because the regulations, that I make white body F1s. No, it's because you're knee.
You're going to get it because it's not clutch. I'll be all right with it. Yeah, but you've got to jump in very quick. It's jumping in.
You can't get out of those things. Oh, yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.
You've seen this. You're sitting in a bathtub with your feet hanging off. I think the other day, the pedals are up high and the seats are moulded to your body. Like they mould the seats.
They're cool. They're all shamed. Yeah, yeah, it's not. There's no cup holders or...
No, that belongs to me up there. Yeah, and the drink turns into hot water within like a couple of laps. Like the water is not... It's...
I mean, for the millions, you think they can have a little thing to keep your water cooled. Well, they've got Wi-Fi because they're speaking through their helmets. It's true. Yeah, no, they're going to stand by.
Well, that's a nice one. I don't want to draw for a little. I don't want to draw for a little. I want to get hot.