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Baby Forces Sale
by Marc Bazeley and Ryan Lambie
Automotive podcast which takes a look at the weird and not-so-wonderful world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace, plus occasional other automotive-related nonsense.New episodes every Monday.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 46 - Pursued by AI Vikings
This week, Facebook Marketplace serves up a Hyundai i10 featuring a rather striking AI-generated image used to advertise the car and a Gran Turismo 2 icon in the Suzuki Alto Works.Plus, what happens when you try to sell a Mazda MX-5 disguised as an Aston Martin.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 45 - Nutty the Lotus-Devouring Squirrel
Cor blimey guv'nor, it's a British sportscar special on this week's episode as Facebook Marketplace serves up an Aston Martin DB9 Le Mans which stopped working after being driven into some water and a Lotus Elan M100 a squirrel once took up residence inside.Plus, we decide to kick the hornets nest and look at what's happening with Tesla Cybertruck sales.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 44 - Track Car Weapons
This week in the world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace, a Honda NSX Targa 3.2 V6 we can't actually find anything wrong with and something we've never heard of before in a GTM Spyder with some paintwork issues.Plus, the man who delivers Indian takeaways in a hearse and disappointment for anyone who came here looking for affordable luxury escorts.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 43 - Thirty-nine Inches of Snow
It's something of a Facebook Marketplace second-hand 4x4 special this week, featuring a Lada Niva with some very specific performance levels and what is claimed to be the first Land Rover Freelander registered in the UK.Plus, when Citroen tried to target the commuter crowd with the AX.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 42 - Shamborghini
Emerging from the depths of Facebook Marketplace this week are a fake Lamborghini Countach which comes in kit form and something we have absolutely no idea what it is.Plus, will.i.am's Tron-inspired, AI-powered automotive nonsense.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 41 - Screaming Magenta
This week, the world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace serves up a bizarre Fiat Panda Colour special edition and a Vauxhall Corsa which has been given the Max Power treatment.Plus, the top 20 most stolen cars in the UK - some of which may surprise you!Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 40 - Vananarama
This week, Facebook Marketplace serves up a couple of vans as we take a look at a Mitsubishi L300 masquerading as The Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo and a surprisingly well-cared-for Ford Escort Estate.Plus, the surprising number of British people suffering from a delusion known as Pastor Maldonado Syndrome.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 39 - Bird Dirt and Bullet Holes
It's something of a Lancia special on this week's episode as Facebook Marketplace delivers us a Beta Spyder "restoration project" and a Delta HF Integrale 16V which is afflicted by a common problem.Plus, can a man pull a SEAT Leon with his testicles? The answer might surprise you!Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.com/Email us: [email protected]
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Ep. 38 - Terry and June
This week, Facebook Marketplace serves up a battle of the 1990s rally rivals with a Subaru Impreza 2000 Turbo and a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V.Plus, Terry Scott's Jaguar versus the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, and down the rabbit hole of cars on terrible ITV sitcoms.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 37 - Two More for the Road
This week, Facebook Marketplace brings us a ridiculously luxurious Toyata Alphard and a Rover SD1 2300 variant which was promoted with a film which definitely wouldn't fly in this day and age.Plus, an update on the tragic Renault 5 we previously featured, Transformers, Carlos the Jackal, Northampton's worst Rover dealership, and Miss Chronicle & Echo 1988.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.com/Email us: [email protected]
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Ep. 36 - Vignale and I
This week, Facebook Marketplace brings us a surprisingly expensive Fiat Gamine Vignale which looks like Noddy's car and a Ford Taurus modified to look like the police cruiser from RoboCop.Plus, the bizarre death of Vignale's UK importer, whether Noddy would have been on a ride-hailing app, and RoboCop-themed weddings.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 35 - I am a Kurious British Racing Green and Oranj
On this week's episode, we look at a Renault 5 which might be the most tragic car we've found to date on Facebook Marketplace and a Rover 200 BRM complete with its trademark orange nose and red leather bondage dungeon interior.Plus, a bonus listener-submitted Peugeot 106 GTI which has been on quite the adventure.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.com/Email us: [email protected]
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Ep. 34 - Carry On Cutting and Shutting
This week, we go all the way back to 1997 for an episode of Channel 4 documentary series Cutting Edge which examined the seedy underbelly of the second-hand car trade nearly 30 years ago.Along the way, we uncover all about the twin menaces of cut-and-shut cars and clocking, find out why even buying a brand-new car from an authorised dealer doesn't mean you're safe, and meet a man who the phrase "rogue trader" was seemingly invented for.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 33 - Barely (Road) Legal
It's Ford or fraud on this week's episode, with a Honda S2000 in disguise as a MKII Escort Group 5 touring car and an actual Taurus NASCAR which has somehow made its way over to the UK after ruining the sport forever.We also discuss the golden era of motorsport tobacco sponsorship, find out about the infamous Kevin Lepage, and give our reaction to F1 The Movie gaining two - count them, two! - Oscar nominations.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 32 - Do You Know What Nemesis Means?
On this week's episode, Facebook Marketplace serves up a Mazda RX-8 Nemesis which isn't quite the bargain it might first appear and a surprisingly expensive Lada 1300 SL.Plus, some Ridge Racer Type 4 nostalgia.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 31 - It's Pronounced Ker-see-dos
It's a mix of the silly and the sensible on this week's podcast, where you can live out your Steve McQueen fantasies with a VW Manta Ray beach buggy or be the more discerning motorist with the notoriously unprounounceable Mazda Xedos 6.Plus, our old friend Noel Edmonds makes an appearance along with Mr Blobby and we look at the friendly face of communist motoring.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 30 - No Nocks or Bangs
This week, the weird world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace brings us the hideous yet surprisingly popular Chrysler PT Cruiser and an incredibly rare Alfa Romeo 33 Sportwagon which has seen better days.Plus, Nissan Primera propaganda with Tiff Needell!Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 29 - Australian for Sheep
It's back to the weird world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace this week, with a Fiat Multipla which has been given a dubious paint-job and a Proton Jumbuck which thinks its a Mitusbishi Evo I.Plus, the punk music and motoring crossover we've been waiting for!Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 28 - The Board Can Force a Sale
Trapped in the yawning chasm between Christmas and New Year, we've decided to ditch the bizarre world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace to watch F1 The Movie instead. You know, six months after it was first out.Along the way, we discuss the surprising parallels between this and Driven (see Ep. 4), an eyebrow-raising amount of rampant cheating, and whether Sonny Hayes was even eligible for an FIA Super Licence.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 27 - The non-Christmas Christmas Special
Christmas week brings us two Fords in the form of an XR3i Cabriolet restoration project where life has got in the way and an incredibly rare Mondeo SI Citrine, which turns out to be far more interesting than we ever expected.Plus, a list of Ford Scorpio insults and managing to get through almost the entire podcast without mentioning Christmas.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 26 - How is it This Came to Arrive Here?
This week, we look at a Fiat Barchetta which has arrived in the UK from Italy via Japan and seemingly not moved since it got here, along with the amusingly bonkers Daihatsu YRV Turbo 130.Plus, the Duckhams Sierra Cosworth competition mystery deepens and some Street Fighter Lexus news.Social and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 25 - Executive Decisions
This week, Facebook Marketplace pitches us into the world of ridiculously overpowered executive saloons with a Ford Scorpio Cosworth and a Citroen CX Turbo.Drag coefficients! 1980s dictators! Grace Jones! All this plus a painting spotted in a charity shop which proves once and for all a car can actually be art.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 24 - As Seen on TV
It's something of a TV special this week as Facebook Marketplace serves up a Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am modified to look like KITT out of off of KnightRider and a Reliant Rialto in the style of Del Boy's three-wheeler.Plus, a ludicrously convoluted competition Duckhams ran in 1991 to win a Ford Sierra Sapphire Cosworth 4x4.Social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 23 - Oozing Machismo
It's something of a TVR special this week following the news Blackpool's iconic automotive brand is set to finally return to the roads.We look at a Tuscan which has apparently been looked after better than most children and a Cerbera which it's claimed once belonged to Britain's foremost retailer of marital aids, plus pay tribute to the maverick genius of Peter Wheeler.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 22 - Not Popular Enough to be Expensive
This week, we go back to a time when everything was very angular as Facebook Marketplace serves up a couple of British sports coupes in the Triumph TR7 and the Ginetta G26.Plus, learn to speak like a second-hand car salesman with Jason Dawe.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 21 - Calibra Drag Coefficient
This week, Marc and Ryan have trawled Facebook Marketplace and somehow ended up with examples of the same car. Namely, a pair of Vauxhall Calibra V6 2.5Ls.Plus, a tribute to Quentin Wilson.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 20 - The Bunty Bailey scrappage scheme
On this week's episode, we argue about the merits of a Vauxhall VX220 which has been in an accident, ponder the point of what is widely considered one of the worst cars of all time, and find out about the small part the girl from A-Ha's 'Take On Me' video played in British automotive history.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 19 - Harlequin Club
This week, the discovery of a 21-year-old Top Gear Magazine supplement leads us down the rabbit hole of the Volkswagen Polo Harlequin, where we find other VWs which have been been modified with a similar design.This leaves us with two questions: 1) Why? And 2) no seriously, why?Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 18 - Now That's What I Call 1984
This week, we take a trip back in time to 1984 and Central Television's coverage of that year's British International Motorshow at the NEC, and somehow spend nearly 40 minutes talking about a 32-minute video we found on YouTube.Believe us when we say there is A LOT to unpack here.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 17 - Jimmy Nail Celica
This week, a Honda Prelude with some funky hydraulics and a Toyota Celica with an unusual bonnet modification. Both of which have been completely and utterly ruined.We promise these are the last Japanese cars for a while.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 16 - Turkey Teeth for Cars
On this week's episode, we look at a Toyota MR2 and a Mazda MX5 which have been modified to look like a Ferrari F355 and a 250 GTO, for some unfathomable reason.Along the way, we find out why Ryan sold his MKII MR2, learn how F355s kept catching fire, and wonder why you'd swap any of these for a Jeep Wrangler.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 15 - Kancil Culture
It's an actual case of baby forces sale on this week's episode with a Daihatsu Copen plus a rare example of what was once the cheapest car on sale in Britain, the Perodua Nippa AKA the Perodua Kancil.We also get to experience the greatest car advert ever made and speculate about how a small-time Burton Latimer salesman managed to become the official dealer for a Malaysian automotive titan.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 14 - Dead Fast Funerals
It's back to normal on Baby Forces Sale this week, so obviously we've got a Vauxhall Omega hearse fitted with a jet engine and a replica of one of the maddest Group B rally cars to ever see the light of day, the Metro 6R4, to run the rule over.Podcast and social media links: https://linktr.ee/babyforces saleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 13 - A Rep-Mobile of Your Own.mp3
You've heard all about the cars sales reps love on our last episode, now find out how easy it is to get one of your own!As it turns out, not very. But we do track down a Fiesta XR2i (replica), a celebrity Austin Maestro, a Toyota Supra and the surprisingly-coveted Madza 626.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 12 - The English Patrick Bateman
On this week's podcast, we take a look at an episode of the 1994 BBC TV documentary series 'From A to B' which examines the strange rituals and disturbing subculture of sales reps and their company cars.Along the way, we learn how to negotiate around company car policy with your fleet manager, discover how many Shell points it takes to get a free colour television, and ponder what a No. 70 on the Little Chef menu might have been.Podcast and social links: http://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 11 - Lots of Trouble, Usually Serious
On this week's dive into the world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace, we come up with a Lotus Excel which is slowly being reclaimed by nature and the ram-raider's vehicle of choice, the iconic Vauxhall Lotus Carlton.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 10 - Big in Japan
It's an obscure Japanese special this week as we take a look at a Nissan 300ZX for which the logbook has been "misplaced" and the unusual Mitsuoka Galue which is based on a car called Cedric.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 9 - All-Americans
It's back to Facebook Marketplace for this week's episode, where we find a Ford Mustang which a student decided would be a good first car and a Dodge Avenger masquerading as a police car.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected].
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Ep. 8 - Mr Toad's Le Mans Fever Dream
At the height of his 'House Party' fame, Noel Edmonds' sky-high sense of invincibility ran aground spectacularly when he decided he could take on the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours race, with a BBC filmcrew there to capture it all. This week, we take a break from Facebook Marketplace madness to look at the madness of 'Noel's Le Mans Dream'.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 7 - Winter Projects
This week's Facebook Marketplace second-hand car madness features two icons of British motoring in the Mini and Jaguar E-Type, which can be yours for bargain prices as long as you're prepared to put them back together yourself.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 6 - Choose Your Fighter
Joysticks at the ready! It's a clash of the retro-gaming icons on Baby Forces Sale this week as Facebook Marketplace pitches the Lexus LS 400 from Street Fighter II and the Porsche 928 from Chase HQ against each other in a battle for supremacy. FIGHT!Podcast links and social media: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 5 - The Most Important Question in the World Today
On this week's episode we return to the madness of Facebook Marketplace to tackle one of the biggest hot-button topics on the planet: What's better - a Peugeot 406 Coupe or a Hummer H2?Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 4 - Rocky V on Wheels
On this week's episode, we take a break from the madness of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace to look back on Sylvester Stallone's attempt to bring the drama and excitement of the world of motorsport to the big screen in 'Driven'.Is it as bad as it's made out to be? No, it's much worse!Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 3 - The GTE of Theseus
On this week's bout of Facebook Marketplace second-hand car madness, we've found a Vauxhall GTE which is the dictionary definition of "buyer's remorse" and an MG ZR which is anything but "tastefully modfied".Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 2 - It Could be Worse
In this week's madness from the world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace, we take a step up in class with a Jaguar XJS and a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, neither of which would look out of place being driven around by the cast of a British gangster film.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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Ep. 1 - The second-hand cars of Dr Moreau
Welcome to Baby Forces Sale - the podcast which delves into the weird and not-so-wonderful world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace.This week, we look at a Fiat 500 with its own vestigal twin growing out of the roof and special edition Ford Fiesta which no longer quite so special.Podcast and social links: https://linktr.ee/babyforcessaleEmail us: [email protected]
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Automotive podcast which takes a look at the weird and not-so-wonderful world of second-hand cars on Facebook Marketplace, plus occasional other automotive-related nonsense.New episodes every Monday.Visit our website: https://www.babyforcessale.comEmail us: [email protected]
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Marc Bazeley and Ryan Lambie
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