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EPISODE · May 11, 2019 · 51 MIN

30: Karmann Ghia by Nick Cass

from All Torque Car Podcast · host All Torque Podcast Pty Ltd

Karmann Ghia collector Nick Cass joins us to talk about owning a '59 Karmann Ghia.  Nick explains how to look after old cars. We look into 1980's kit cars that look like Ferraris.  Ross provides us uodates with his RAGE Rover and Halil talks about dealing with Holden head office.  Peter talks about meeting Wayne Carini and we re-visit what cars we would buy, money no object!!!  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and email us [email protected]

Karmann Ghia collector Nick Cass joins us to talk about owning a '59 Karmann Ghia.  Nick explains how to look after old cars. We look into 1980's kit cars that look like Ferraris.  Ross provides us uodates with his RAGE Rover and Halil talks about dealing with Holden head office.  Peter talks about meeting Wayne Carini and we re-visit what cars we would buy, money no object!!!  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and email us [email protected]

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It's a ballpark. I mean it's a football. Yeah, it's a football man. Yeah, he's got a shit out.

You're telling him it's a ball-ver. They might be repairing out. Did you repair car? Yeah.

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Nick Cass, love of all things old. Cars. Sorry. I didn't say Nick's line.

I just finished the old car. So welcome Nick. Thanks for coming on board tonight. Thanks guys.

Good to be here. Yeah. Good to be here. Yeah.

I don't know. I'm going to rush the shit out of here. Yeah. Yeah.

First thing first thing I get in. You know this person? What did you say with you eight years old? I'm going to say all cars.

I mean, you've got a couple of new estate models and all ones? Yeah. I've had a couple of old Volkswagen's in the past. Two common gears.

The current one is a 59 model. We should have had a company. Yeah. Which had for five or six.

Oh, maybe six years down? The brakes won't get old. Occasionally. Yeah.

It's temperamental. So it's sitting in the garage most of the time. But it is a nice car. It was restored by a gentleman that owned it before I did.

He had a large collection of Volkswagen's. This one I think is a Thilive car which is quite nice. It's got a really cool white roof. Yeah.

What color is it? Yeah. It's a baby blue paint scheme. That was maybe just faded.

It's faded. It was dark blue when it's new with the white roof. It's a 1.2 litre engine. It doesn't move very quickly.

Not at all. 30 horsepower. It keeps up with the best ones. But yes, the 35 horsepower is going down here.

Yeah. It's a target. The whole sport. It does.

What a good engine conversion. I thought that actually. I am a second less than a second. You can top your ex conversion.

I'm trying to get you to the... And Nick is not like me. Where I'm having a cut. Nick actually likes to get you to the other day.

He says, hey, I've found this car. It's a original 911 and it's got matching engine and chassis. It gives you shit. You might have been in it.

You know, wrong honestly? Has it got warranty? No. It comes with a money pit.

I know. Why can't I say it? Yeah. It's a bit of a headache to maintain.

I find it reliability- What do you need? I mean, it's $950.60 year old car. It is. It's 60 years old this year.

I haven't worked out much month. I've never worked out much month. It's a member of the Porsche club of New South Wales. A cousin is a member there.

I've got an older, not a leather car for a few years as well. So I managed to get historic regi through them. Oh, wow. It worked out well.

So a 60 year old car. You take it to your local mechanic for its tune up a service? The guys that have ABC Type and Blutney, there's a friend of my brothers who runs that. Michael Chris, who's got some old mechanics and they've worked on old combias and they've worked on old cars.

They're old too. They're old too. They're old too. They're old too.

They're good at servicing it. They're looking after the car for me. Of late, some parts said it's taking the steering and brakes and getting parts of the issue. You can't get it all over.

No. No. They can't get it all over. You can't get it all over.

You can ring up a stage in all of that. Yeah. Well, come and get it all over. There's a lot of parts from the pedal that's synonymous with it.

They can't get it all over the game. So you can generally source the same. Is there a VQG? Yeah, there are.

They're the ones that talk. They don't make replica parts or they're reproducing your retails. I think they're all replicas these days. There's a couple in German that's not a lot of it comes out of Brazil.

Just on that, there's a company in such a pan. I think it's Bangkok where you can... We work on that. You can take the Suzuki, you know, it's...

What's the little Suzuki? The Zuki carry. You can turn it into with parts of Volkswagen. Absolutely not.

Look shit. I like the chassis. They have a car. They've changed the front of the side and they put it on the 21.

We know the six-way. The Ferrari is a terrari. It's a terrari. It's a terrari.

It's a terrari. It's a terrari. It's a terrari. It's a terrari.

It's a terrari. It's not a terrari. This is a guy selling a terrari. On car sales, which is based on the M2, and it's got the best reliability of the M2 and it looks like a terrari.

It looks like a really shit Ferrari. It's my shit Ferrari. It's my shit Ferrari. Sorry.

Sorry. I was about 360. Yeah. I'll do one thing, guys.

So depending on the value on prospects of our originality, because I like originality on some cars, and then on some things I look at them and I think, you know what, this is good. Like looking old-school on the outside of the inside and everything, but put some new gen stuff underneath it, and it doesn't have to be reliable. I speak car, but just a much more comfortable car to drive. Airbags, capital engine and stuff like that.

You know, you can get vintage neck on the dash and stuff, which are 30 horsepower engine in the right way. Yeah. That's a good point. That's a good point, that's a good point.

That's a good point. I think that's a good point. That makes sense. No, I'm not a regular podcast, but I want to show you the photo of the MRT and it looks like the Ferrari.

It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Which one do you want to pick up on the other?

I'd rather drive that than original 360. Why don't you do it 360? You're not the one? No, that's fine.

That looks fine. You can pass that off. There's some Buf it. It's like the sort of Bruta-wise.

A different rate of cash. I'll do it for a Ferrari day. Well there's a central coast, there's a Hyundai. What's that?

What's that? The early two-door car? What was it? What?

The EXCoup and then they brought it up? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a red tipper on the central coast. And the guys got Ferrari badges on the front of the back and the side.

And he's been trying to sell it as a Ferrari. And he cruises around and people come to the Manosrai thanks buddy. Like he usually got the Ferrari hat that she did. Just take that, get dressed up like the Sultan of Bruno.

I'll take it about Ferrari. See look, I'd rather the 316 one of the, you know. You know, I saw a 612 on the... That is a...

You know, in the right color. It's a beautiful color. In the red it was a big... You're not Ferrari.

Yeah, the big ones are over there. What's a Skegli? The 612. It's a super-American.

It's a 4th. It was a 4th. Yeah, to the right. Big V12 from the engineering.

Yeah, but for that. For that. This was the iron. This was the right.

It was the brome with the tan interior. And it looked better than the red ones. Because in red it was just too big. It's a lot.

It's a black silver. Last we're talking about it, sorry. We're just talking about Volkswagen. Vorsches.

But I was trying to make yesterday who went with his father because they both Ferrari. And they did a Ferrari. So if you own a Ferrari in Australia or wherever you are, you can actually go to the Ferrari factory and you get a tour of the factory. And they've given him the keys to this car.

They're going to manage all super-fast. And they said to him, you know, you can go and take it out for the day and drive it out of the door. He said, but drive the Italian guy. He said, drive in the middle of the road.

Put the line in between the car because the car's really wide. You're going to clip a wheel. And the guy goes, oh yeah, like 2000 Euro excess. If you clip the wheel.

He's what he do. Get the wheel. Oh, you're so crazy car. Hey, cool.

Super fast. I'm going to go for a Sunday drive. And then he brings it out. Well, yeah, it hasn't done too many long road trips.

The previous car I had, the original car was an old rally car. Somebody owned the old car. I bought it through Shannon's. That car had been restored back as the original spec.

But then at the end, they're short for a key box. So it had about maybe 70 horsepower. I thought I'd give the car a couple of words. I'm saying I'm going to come on fire.

But that was fun. It was fun to drive. It was full of rust. It was a good thing.

It was a good thing. It was a good thing. It was a good thing. It was a good thing.

It was a good thing. It was a good thing. It was a good thing. I was like the horse.

It was as tall as me on the horse as we got down, and how to drain up. I'll explain it. I'll explain it. My brother's...

There's no horse power. We're going to have to push it out of the way. You can even add an ant on it after it gets paid. Yeah.

Yeah. Give me an example. My brother's 6'3", personal trainer. So it's a tall, well, yeah.

Obviously he's a good hero. Yeah. He's a good guy. But he fits in the car, comes in the game.

He's shooting. If you guys were driving it, the pedals are so close together. That's fine. You're just covering your clowns.

You just have an offer for your pills at once. That's because they're really costly like. Yeah, yeah. It's probably the only district that can't.

It's the worst car we've ever been. It's really tight. It's a bit. It's small.

It's like a patch in the three candles. Cloud should break and it's all right. I've got the same issue. I mean, in terms of the interior, the Volkswagen, the Volkswagen, the ergonomics are amazing for such a small car.

They're actually quite spacious. What was it built? Volkswagen wanted a... ...coach equivalent.

Yeah, kind of. I mean, the factory... ...pearer. Yeah, yeah.

They wanted something which would appeal to a bigger demographic. So, in terms of a soft... ...performs car, it was always a car based on Volkswagen. Big old mechanicals with a slightly different body shape that would be able to...

...feel a bit more expensive. It's really not in the car. But that was the common game. At the same time, they brought up the type two.

We were talking about a couple weeks. We were talking about Chris. Chris, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul, Paul. He's got a 993 as well.

That's right. You hate 993 as do you. You're not good at it. You wouldn't still be here, though.

Thanks, Chris. Yeah, Chris. It's really close. I'll go back to the 993.

Do you want to do it? Yeah. Not a manual. Not a manual.

A manual 993. Yeah. They're good to drive. One by.

You have to... Yeah. What's yours? Mine's a 6-megle.

Just... ...courer. It's very... ...courer.

It's a... ...courer. It's a... ...courer.

I think the narrow body... ...the 964. Yeah. Especially the narrow bodies.

Right? I'm getting good corn now. They are. I'm putting the SLF.

They're always there to sleep. But come on, guys. The SLF doesn't keep. No, no, no, no, no.

People think they're out because the car in Melbourne, there's a target. It's a... ...a not 81 target. It's been an IWB.

No one likes it. Everyone on the chat rooms and all that. Everyone thinks they're absolutely fucked the car up. I love it.

I love it. Different. I love it. It's...

You may not like it. But... ...courer. Unless someone's there.

Absolutely not. Well, listen to the... ...at least you're doing it for a while. He's not a good job.

That's a good job. That's the biggest thing is getting them all. But I reckon the 9.93. Singers are buying straight.

And I've already moved the prices for a jump anyway. They have a bit. You don't want to get a decent manual 9.93 for less than 1.50. Holds it.

It's 70-second point. What's the most? It's an heavy-glue. It's a good stuff.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of them around in that car. They're working on it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You need like silver or black.

I don't know what's going on. It's got 150. It's had a top end rebuild. It's had a fair bit of money spent on it.

So, it's... Interior is quite spotless. It's a really good condition. They're all built cars.

Yeah. The bodywork is good. I have done the best job maintaining it. So, it's a fetal stage.

If you're selling it, you know, done amazing. It looks good. It looks good on our Instagram. Yeah.

It's a good place to go. I'm in the talk job in front of Aemon back in the third time. I'm sorry. Yeah.

Happy to go. Also, are they? You can wreck it. Yeah.

I'm going to drop a Starbucks time over the wreck. I'm telling you it's on a coupon. You can go to the parking lot. It's probably worth more than part of the clue.

Yeah. Sorry. You were just playing back in the car. It's fun to drive.

I think the issue with that car is the upkeep. If you want to buy factory parts and look after them. Right. So, pay by cars warranty.

Sell by cars and drop them. Because they're petrol. Yeah. And I just buy cars and buy the products.

You love your fancy cars. But upkeep. Like I've never had an old car. Is the upkeep that crazy?

It can be. The old Porsche market. We talked about it earlier. The value of these old cars are going up.

So, this 993, 5 or 6 years ago, was $60,000. It's now $120 for the same car. Maybe 7 years ago. So, the value, because of the last of the ankle-vention.

They're starting to get following. The 964 got following for two reasons. I think I've done a lot for that particular market. But also, cars that were easily retrofitted to the P73 shape.

So, the original 911, which is made from 964. The 963. It's easy to retrofit that bodywork onto a modern chassis. And, you know, the modern ergonomics and reliability.

They have bad boys as well. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it makes a nice little difference.

They do that. Boys, maybe not driving a walk. No, they're probably going to never get a race in space now. Yeah.

But they're both great to drive. I think they're both dynamics. They're very compact on the inside. But there's not much space.

Even when the car was catheter, the transmission tunnel was too tiny. And the interior doesn't have the space. The Volkswagen does not have a secure old car. So, do you think they're on them?

Not much. I try to avoid it. I tend to make them. Yeah.

I don't have many of the tools. I'm kind of useless here. So, I tend to rely on friends. A couple friends of mine.

But you want to keep it in your car? Your car is just tough. Yeah. Even the mechanic I use is a company in the auto house.

It's just old Porsche's. They basically chat. So, they've been looking up at any car from the 50s all the way up to the modern-day GT3. Yeah.

There's a racing up there as well. You're not too tired. Oh, so that's the good with Porsche. I have.

I've done it. 1.2 million. Is that a typo? No.

Two hours before. That's a good point. One point two minutes. That's crazy.

That's crazy. I think that was the bad voice. Yeah. The first one.

Yeah. The second one. The first one. The second one.

The first one. The second one. The first one. The second one.

I don't like them. I just never liked the 964. The 930. The 993 is a beautiful model.

You've got a new one. The Oyster guys have it. The 9omers. I've always lusted after a 256, which is what I really want.

Early 50s. It made them... A few of the rock done beyond it. Yes.

All of a sudden a 59 model, 356A. No. That's the 3rd one. Of course, it comes with pilot.

It comes with responsibilities, so it's like you can't. I'm bringing your police officer. It's rough here. It was a small single.

Yeah, he was worried about it. There aren't many around that are in that condition. So I think a classic passing is the vantage stuff that's sort of unre ONLY can be more valuable from the restored product, too. Basically appreciate the paternal limit of it.

How itzig wasn't possible at all. original car that hasn't been modified or... I think you've got a lot of times in the merry-go-go-go-go-fashions. If it's still got the dirt and the cramp on it, leave it on.

Can we talk about barn finds for a second? We're watching a show about barn finds. We're sitting on a car. We bought a property in France and realized that you've seen me.

That's like that show, Jux, and that's where the car actually jumped the land. It's all bullshit. Okay, sounds good. It's all my scripted shows.

There's a guy that instrived in the store that does barn finds. He finds a guy holding back the patio. Yes, but they're holding back the patio. They're chasing us.

What's that? What's that? They've got to go to Palm Beach. I like Wayne Marsh.

I told him they come to Australia. I told him they was the exit. We've got two four. He shows.

We just found a Bugatti in a barn. The guy has driven in 65 years. He didn't realize it was worth much. He's a bad man.

He's a bad man. He's a good man. It's so big space. I've got an old man living.

I'm not going to go, you know what? The Astros for those who run in the petrol. Let's stick it in the barn and find what he's got to cover it up. What you'll find is he has a screwdriver.

No, no, no, no. He's got a network where people with certain types of cars will contact here. They'll have a show for sale. They're going to either give it to him to get it, go and sign it.

Or if he wants the Biden, they don't want the headlight and they'll sell it to him. Because he finds people that want to get it to his workshop. His dad was a mechanic. It's going to be a Nicholas niche, you know, people?

There's a coach builder in Wobber, right? The third generation. They've got molds for old jags. Also really?

Not old, old jags. They've got a lot of money. They've got a lot of money. They've got a lot of money.

They've got a team there, right? They've got a team there. And also they've made steel ones. They've got, like they're all having a wall and it says, you know, Rolls Royce, L-H fuel section.

So there's all these molds where it's coming out and they've got all their old school machines where they've rolled the metal. And you wouldn't even know, like even the gauge of the metal. So you tell them that I can build it on Rolls Royce. They'll build you if you want it.

I still body like an XJ. Jags. I'm not the Jags. I'm not the Jags.

I'm the 20 Rolls Royce. Yeah, they speak much that as well. The cost of restoring these old cars is exponential. So he did have a guy called Ron Goodman who does the old Porsche's 50s.

And he's an official car repair for the Lamborghini. He works out of, I think it's a grandal at his workshop. He does McLaren, he does Rolls Royce, Aston Martin. But he's also passionate about Porsche's race.

I'm kind of right. Yeah. So he does the restoration work for a couple of old Porsche's and the cost of doing one probably, is a super way. It all depends on how much rust these things have.

But you could, the sky's building, they can drop $200,000 on their wheels. Is it a proper cost? Is it the fact this guy's the only guy? No, it's all made to make a label.

They're hammering away to get the perfect good. They're using it real? That's right. That's my key garage.

It's a big following to these old cars. I think a lot of the disappointment for me has been investors to start getting to some of these old cars. And you guys can tell her enthusiasm, especially in knowledge of old cars. We're making up for the next one.

We've got a lot of websites. There's a lot of speculators. I know people that have walked into these classic car dealerships that have got a finance background and they've gone, I just want a tax-free gain on a asset that'll grow. They'll just park it in the garage for a year and make 40% tax-free in the years.

Yeah, they've got to forget about them. Yeah, so the parking in the garage is great. All right, 60s later than what goes? No, yeah, they've got to forget.

That's really nice. It's a trust fund. We're still looking for it. So they're looking at a classic throttle shop over on the North side.

They've got some spectacular cars. You should talk to the owner of that business. He's a guy that has some amazing cars that come through. He's dealership, so they sell on behalf of clients on Ximen.

But they've got anything from a $20,000 wagon to a Bugatti Veyron in there. They do, yeah. They do. You get the value?

I'll probably be in the market. I'll be in there before. If we had to buy for money, it'd be good. No, no.

What would you buy for? What's your unicorn? What's your unicorn? What's your unicorn?

What is the ultimate? Pick your car. Look, a lot of vintage Italian cars. It's like a 250 Ferrari Short Wheel X.

Yes, yes, yes. J.T. 48 million. Yeah.

OK. No, no, I said fuck off. That's good. Fuck my.

No, no. No, no, no, no. I'm not going to buy it. They're sitting up there.

No. No, no. The big thing about this is I can't buy it. There's no step to this.

I can borrow it. You can transfer the car. A little cobs of the car. You can borrow the car and you can borrow it.

But if you were going to be a 4.6, no, no, no, no, please look at that. If we went to Barrett Jackson and paid 48 million with someone else's money and bought that's Australian, there's an important issue. Yeah, there's an important issue. You can only cut yourself for a few years.

If you got a ride, you could bring in your car. That's not the one on the wrist. What's his throw worth? He's a reference to me.

He's a home guy. Actually, if the vehicle's been used at the display, or... If it's a personal vehicle, you could bring it. So what you're going to do is drive in a list of recoveries.

Obviously, it's for a year with the car, and you can bring it into a store. This one from First Beals, right? It's a convertible version of one. I wanted a V-game.

First one. First one. First one. First one.

First one. First one. I could drive. Just a couple cars.

Just a couple cars. Two, eight, JTL, Evolution. Two, eight, JTL, Evolution. That is the first of all.

That is the last of all the four. That's the F40s. Pretty much Twin Brother. The one here.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Two, eight, JTL, Evolution. Two, eight, GTL, Evolution. That's why I couldn't get a full trip.

You follow Petrolista. Yeah, I do. The green. And the green.

Let's go over it. I'll just Google it. But I reckon you'll go through a concert with half a thousand. You win.

What? What? It's basically like a... You win for sports?

Oh my god. The guys, our fans but we can't even have done it. Your reach is stronger than wide rocks. What's yours, Ross?

Multi- 1992. What's he done with? No, my ultimate would be a 300SL or a bell wink. It's not something really one.

So do you want to set a B-I? Just cruise around. Silver, must cheer your interior. Two seats, keep that bucket up.

Dad, I got my images! Really? Should we get the door? Are you sure?

Yeah. You can fly one more. You can still be worried about the kids. Yeah.

It's amazing. It does happen. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, sorry. The one night I was with them, that was the week.

That's the week. I was the day I leave. I was telling your guys to destroy the kids in the car. It was 10 minutes the other day in the car when I drive very often.

They're gone. They'll be natural safety. The way they're back, you can't go to the inside. I know you got serious problems when you're doing a podcast with the guy that does a car and you know it's a story about the kid that's going to be on the back.

And it was your wife's car? Oh goodness. The kid's out. The kid's out.

Oh, you're going to go with the car? I got with the car. Yeah. The guy asked me, would you like a coffee seat?

Would you like? I said, would you like? I said, would you give you all those trinkets? No, I got it.

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