So, excellent, excellent. It seems from Michael. I'm playing Michael. You're playing a role in New, if it's, you know, in New, if it's role.
You know what it will come through. It'll come through. Yeah, there'll be. If you are making it on the podcast, all you've got to do is go go.
I think it was just a year ago. Actually put that up on the ground. That's an avenue. We'll come in.
There we go. So, I don't know what I'm doing here. We're just chilling out. It's easy.
So, a nearly a podcast collector and we came across some O-ring royalty crease. Yes, we have indeed. We've got some, the infamous. Oh, for those of you who are fans of Wheels Magazine and some of my other publicate.
We also have Michael Stars. He's joining a collectors party. Good to have you here. Good to have you here.
With his MV Augusta. Augusta. He loves to prep your party. One of my little head hangers you see, Augusta.
And it's actually August. It's August. You didn't see the Mimo cars and coffee. You brought a ten-year bike.
No, no, I knew it was cars and coffee. As it happens, I have a $99.91 careera coupé. I love it. I've had that for nearly nine years.
But I knew that there would be lots of other $9.11 to you. And also I just finished like a COVID shutdown rebuild on the MB. So, I was looking for an ex-septo. I was down here all the way here.
I've got to make with the trailer, can't I? It just makes a bit of planning. I've already mentioned historic trailers here. No, I've got to look at that as a category.
It's a trailer. It's a spin-off. Great. As you know, a great trailer is quite successful.
It's actually an absolutely amazing thing. It's an Australian version here. Yes, there is. The guy's a trace me.
I forgot the name of it now, but there is Australian version. Now, what is it about seeing things like rusty barn finds and stuff like that? It just makes you, I've got the photo of a 928 and old 928 around the corner from my home the other day. And it's really, what some people call a between or I call it a bit as far.
And I just, I look at it and I just want to save it. And I think there's that hearing nature of the modicle. Yeah. I want to really nurture this thing to life.
It's a picture of bidding-offs. Yeah, of course. But you can't imagine letting it go and I did actually learn a valuable lesson. It was what it would have been 2005, I guess.
The 50th anniversary of the Citroen DS. Right. I wrote a big feature in wheels on the 50th anniversary of that car that was so far ahead of a time. Yeah, it's a game.
It's a game. But I saw a yard of about 14 of them and they were in varying stages of decay. I thought, oh my God, I just want to save them all of them. And then it dawned on me.
That just makes you the next guy with 14 yards of terrain. Correct. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.
I do say you're the custodian for the next person. I mean, I'm going to have this car forever. Someone else is going to take over. You need a kid to sell it with a disease.
Yeah. That's how I go super back. That's how I go super back. I know mine will.
But you're right. I mean, I honestly feel like just with the MV on the second-owner, it was a good made of mine to deliver your brand new. What you know is 72. It's a beautiful, back condition.
You live in, thank you. You delivered new in Adelaide and made of mine another motoring journalist Bob Jennings bought it. And I bought it off Bob in 2001. And so I've had it ever since.
It's a really good question. So I got my first son of a motor racing driver. I've had two racing drivers. And he was a journalist and whatever as well.
My dad who's still around. He's 85 now. So a lot of sons of racing driver dads revealed and went motorcycle racing. So I did that.
But then cars were my living fur, you know, I'm sort of winding back of it now. For 38 years with wheels, magazines, I have it. And what happened was it's probably a terrible thing to have to confess. But driving, particularly for the financial reviewers, they're motoring it to pretend.
You're driving a new, incredibly sophisticated thing every week. And then you want something that takes you back to the more raw connection. I think what we've seen today is that. Yeah.
And so if it's not a classic car, it's a bike and in fact a bike does it perhaps even better than a classic car I would dare say. Wow. Interestingly, the Shannon's options are just finished and it has such a beautiful old cycle bikes. Yeah.
And bicycle. Oh yeah, like a motor. Yeah. But they're old.
They're 90, 30, 40. Okay. It's not for a few sons of money. That sort of surprises me almost because it's such a generational thing.
You know, I bought my 90 living at a fantastic time. Right. Which is 2012 because in 2014 or something I just went nuts. And it was because of people who were just such big cliches like me, which was like, I'm not going to be president of the universe.
I'm not going to be a star in the Euro, so I'm going to be a Hollywood star, a tetra. I better at least stick off one box. Oh, yeah. So it's a generational thing and it's all the kind of late baby boomers.
Finally, kids are growing up a bit. It's excellent. So journalism today compared to when young avid monthly readers of magazines go to the news agent and just scroll the shelf by it. It's going to be a big poster.
I think it's a change now. Why are you taking me there? Why are you taking me there? I'm taking you here.
Yeah. Do you need to be blonde and have a good set on you? So to be famous on Instagram, to be a social media influencer. Talk about a full focus or something like that.
I guess, yeah, it really did change. But I mean, I can see why. Obviously, you know, I yearn for the glory days. The last thing I want, you know, at 58, it's just like that 58 year old girl.
So I'll think it's a different in my bloody day. I'll tell you something. But they were. And because I started at Mocha magazine in Modmotor as it was then in 1983, and then went to wheels in 86 and still riding for wheels, really good night.
More, you know, very much at part time since now. But it seems to me that there was, I mean, the journalist that I grew up with and trained with were guys who were genuinely passionate. Just full on gear here. It's all really good, not almost all really good drivers.
People like Bob Jennings, who I bought, the MV, used to race Formula 2, Big MacK. I don't know how many runs at Bathurst, Paul Gova, likewise, you know, series production championships and all sorts of things. I had a bit of a dabbling racing in rallying when someone was still in up alone in your car. And I have a 100% success rate at Bathurst.
Yeah, yeah. And I drove in a production car race there in 97 with two other journos and we won our class. So long as I never go back to Bathurst, my win rates intact, not like that. No talent.
Brock. And always looked at the last minute, like record. Yeah, I was like doing the rest of that. Just staring at the window.
But yeah, so it was very different. And now, as I may have mentioned earlier, I think from the car company's points of view, they'll sort of say, I want to bring along crusty, cynical, you know, hardened journalist Michael Stahl who's going to just criticise the car, compare it against rivals and sort of complain about the woofly turning, you know, steering response and the NVH and the ride quality and stuff. Or do I want, you know, Bambi Boudtude, who's probably come to the launch in an Uber and records in anything fabulous, you know. And as you know, two points, and you're talking to Volo.
It was talking to Variety Coloss. Well, yeah, I know she was a fan. I know I've been three minutes in life, so I was still like, real magazine, you know. So it's very different.
And I think unfortunately that's, well, it's just the reality, I believe, that's a reflection on the market as well, because people aren't, as, you know, what I think the rock begins with. People don't even wash their own cars anymore. You know, you take it up to the car, wash it, whatever, and have it done. And I know I have built, because I grew up in a car family.
I have such a relationship with my cars, motorcycles, stuff like that. Because you, you know, oh my God, I've got a new sewing ship while you're washing it. You know, you think, oh, there's a new rattle and you die then in the fixer. These days you jump onto a forum and see what it's about.
I've got such a relationship with my machines. And I don't think that happens anymore because you get your BMW on tick and you turn it over every three years and you get the next one. And it's just a different thing. I don't have that relationship with my mobile phone and my daughter's probably thick.
That's sacrilegious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think with the crowds that turn up here is that certainly described it quite well. The internet relationship, ever wash your car, no, you're a bit curbed.
That's your coffee. No, it's not. It's not actually on the roof. It's not like a coconut covert thing or B, it's all right.
Yeah, you can't get it twice. Sorry, Chris. No, no, no, no. People are in love with their houses.
You can see, you know, they're not, you're standing BMW, top of the line. I don't know that, you know, come down here. They want to see real metal, real stuff around the cars. You know, I've got a 90-60-year-old to run over.
That's a real deal. Yeah. That is you. That is you.
That is you. I never knew the last six eight. Oh, no, I was just thinking before the last time I saw a 90-day cab was probably at the launch of it. Oh, geez.
And that's another weird thing for me. Things don't seem sort of old, you know? Like I went to the launch of the 80-knock of the G50 Gearbox 9.11 in 1988. Wow.
And I sort of think, well, that's not that long ago. No, it isn't. But it is. Yeah, I fear it is.
Yeah. Very good. Excellent. So what are you doing now?
You're motoring? Well, you're journalism? Well, because of all the, the, the brand I had earlier, yeah, because the industry's changed so much. I mean, I still have, you know, two children in a mortgage and car and motorcycles and things to take care of.
So it just got sort of more and more difficult. I mean, people are earning less money in journalism than not more. And a friend of mine, a colleague, said it's kind of become a hobby. So at the end of last year, I'd had three years editing a luxury magazine, which was great, because I'm also interested in watches and so forth.
Rob report, the Australian, which is Rob report launch. Yeah. And I did that for three years. And, yeah, you know, and it's their latest issues, just fantastic.
Really? Yeah. Wish it were mine. Yeah, so that was great because I've been traveling and watches and other sorts of, you know, bourgeois, you know, you know, I think.
Love the bourgeoisie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so, so, yeah, so then I kind of gave that up and then wrote it off and then was just kind of looking at the journalism thing and footcheats. I think I need to go for corporate writing gigs.
So, yeah, so I've picked up a role as corporate editor for a, I'm corporate, for editor for a construction company, which is great. Actually, a nice bunch of people. My biggest reservation was turning up in an office at 830 every morning because I'm a little bit kind of free range on a loan walk on my bad ass. And I thought, how am I going to turn up being the next guy with a dangly, blanyard thing?
I had two weeks of that in COVID. They're like, work from home. I'm like, you can't see. That's what you first started.
Why would you buy next class? Now, well, it's not, it's actually all their proposals and things. So, I used to write about kind of, you know, $100 or $400,000 cars and now I'm writing that sort of $800 million in construction. Which is great.
It's a really interesting, yeah, it is an interesting field. It's mostly because I'm working around engineers and my whole life really, my whole career is talking to engineers and interesting people like that, designers, and then interpreting that for human audience. You know, we're propelling, I mean, yeah, I know you're an average listener, podcast. We had engineers on one episode, explain to us how to build a road.
Yeah, yeah. Can you build a road? There's a lot more to do. There's like moving mountains to fill up gullies and...
Yeah, yeah. Specification of gravel and all sorts of stuff. And then looking at that three weather apps, because when they filled the gullies and the plumbing was ready, the last thing you wanted to watch it away. Indeed.
Like it was just more than just... That's all there's stuff that I'm doing. And in fact, if anything, I'm in danger of kind of nerding out. Right.
And they're like, do you need to building this thing or do you? You've got enough information yet? Because we've actually got work to get on with all right. Anyway, it's great.
So, I'll become one of those guys, as I mentioned earlier, who has cars as my passion. But I do something else for living after 38 years of having been spoiled rotten, you know, the cool things that I have. Oh, that's cool, actually. You have everything you know.
Over. Truck yourself on cars. You can find you getting bored with the whole car conversation when you're in the piggyland. I watch the pig change.
Oh, yeah. Oh, beautiful people turning up. Sorry, I'm going to say, yeah. Sorry, sorry.
The bags, the racks, the whole shooting. I've said it before about cars and coffee events. It's like car porn that makes you question your orientation. I wish you could go like, oh, Plymouth Barracuda.
And then like, oh, it's revenge. And to wrap it up, if you now... If you now, there was a box of bottle keys, looking at today's turnout, which one would you go home with? That skyline over there.
Oh, yeah. I think it's got a KPGC10 or KCCC. It's a GT tribute to a GTR 72 model. Yeah.
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And they thought we'd enjoy that very much. Thank you. Thank you. Excuse me.
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