0:12

Guys , sorry he's been back . It's been

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a while since we've done a podcast

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. I've been busy , olly's

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been busy , people in the car seems

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to be busy and we got

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let down by a couple of people , but never

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mind . I thought I'd hold

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on until releasing next episode

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, until my

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car will be in the magazine in

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Performance VW , which there

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it is . If you're watching on YouTube or anywhere

0:39

, there is the cover . There is my motor

0:41

. I haven't opened the magazine

0:43

yet . I've literally just went to pick up a couple

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of copies from the old

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good , trusty W H Smiths . And

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the first things first . I've

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never realised fucking Performance VW's £5.75

0:56

, for fuck's sake

0:59

. I remember it was £4.20 and

1:02

even then I thought it was dear . But £5.75

1:05

, fuck's sake . That's like £70 a month

1:07

, a year on subscription . But anyway

1:10

, I'm pretty sure Elliot

1:13

and Sarah ain't got nothing

1:16

to say when it comes down to prices . But hey

1:18

ho . So looking

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on the cover , we've got obviously

1:23

the title , we've got my

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motor . There

1:27

is a mark 7 , golf R 500

1:30

, brake horsepower and is

1:33

the low down transporters for that maybe

1:35

. Oh well

1:37

, anyway , let's have a look inside

1:40

, first

1:43

page . What does it say ? Buddy

1:45

dubbed ? We tend to stay clear of front

1:47

. Look cars these days , unless they're extremely

1:49

well executed , like Sam and

1:51

Andrieski's Mach 2 1.8

1:53

turbo from this month's cover . I mean well

1:56

executed , it's

1:59

just a fucking rolling piece

2:01

of shit . But

2:04

anyway , what does it say ? There

2:07

was a period during the early to mid noughties

2:10

where everybody was going mad for the trend

2:12

that originated on the hot road scene

2:14

many , many moons ago . The thing

2:17

is , what started as something cool

2:19

, based around cars covered in genuine

2:21

patina , oozing character , soon

2:23

turning to excuse for people to distress

2:25

their cars with little effort , aiming to

2:28

get maximum income for as little

2:30

outlays as possible . I remember those

2:32

days and I remember my friend had

2:34

in what did he have ? Mark 3 Golf

2:36

. I was just fully rusted out . He just fucking

2:38

took a grinder to it . Yeah

2:41

, that was many , many moons ago how

2:46

I was even guilty of removing the paint from

2:49

the Mark 1 Golf campaign I owned at the time

2:51

and salt washing the body . So

2:53

the whole thing turned to rust overnight

2:55

. That's it , elliot . You fucked it

2:57

. You fucked a Mark 1 Golf campaign , but

3:00

you know what can you do . What

3:05

started as a bit of harmless fun in

3:07

this new way of front look was

3:09

for short period quite amusing , but soon

3:11

grew pretty damn annoying . I'm

3:14

pretty pleased that the rut look more than

3:17

shit look all eventually

3:19

died to

3:21

death . Yeah

3:23

well , I

3:26

mean , the shit cars were shit , the good ones

3:28

were cool , and you know , you

3:31

either do the patina rides or you do his shit

3:33

. That's about it these

3:37

days , thankfully to Oni , really , the

3:40

OG , hot rodders and some die hard

3:42

air cooled kids still playing around with this

3:45

look . Yeah

3:47

well , there's not many people that play around with it , which

3:49

is good . That

3:52

was until Simon's Mark 2 dropped into our

3:54

inbox . I mean , elliot

3:56

, you've reached out to me to shoot the Mark 2

3:59

Golf , and that

4:01

gave you an opportunity . Was 6 years ago

4:03

, before fast guy wanted it . You didn't want

4:05

it . You didn't want it , did you

4:07

? And now , look , it's

4:09

on the cover of your magazine

4:11

. We're

4:14

actually no Simon for years , and he's been a part

4:16

of Auto Finesse crew since the early days . How ironic

4:19

, then , that Simon works for a detailing company

4:21

and yet his car was shit

4:23

. Well , I don't work for Auto

4:25

Finesse . I was off about 3 months ago . Me

4:27

and Auto Finesse decided to go out separate

4:30

ways , for my personal reasons

4:32

mainly . But

4:35

good days , really good days

4:37

. Well , do

4:39

I have a little deeper , though , and you'll realise that

4:41

there's far more to his Mark 2 Golf

4:43

than tattoo body work and wide wheels

4:46

. There is a lot of custom work

4:48

, but we're going into that in a bit . His

4:50

creation is actually a masterclass

4:52

in fucking masterclass

4:55

Fuck me , elliot

4:57

. His creation is actually

4:59

a masterclass in rut lurk . That has been executed

5:01

to do their . We say perfection . Well

5:03

, thank you for that . Read

5:06

more about it on page 8 of this

5:09

issue . As we're in the magazine

5:11

, we've featured Ryan Benjamin's 500

5:13

brake horsepower , mark 7 Golf daily

5:15

driver . I mean third play

5:17

to the Giza Lloyd Bryan

5:20

Baines Lloyd Baines

5:22

sleeper , look Mark 1 and

5:24

Alex Papas Bora

5:26

and some other stuff

5:29

. I

5:31

think that was

5:33

quite nice words there , elliot

5:35

, if I might say . But yeah

5:38

, I wouldn't go out as much

5:40

as master piece or perfection

5:42

. But

5:46

thanks

5:50

, mate . Ah , oh , crying out loud . There's

5:54

a picture on

5:58

a third page in Quite

6:01

funny Right

6:03

, I'm just going

6:05

to go straight into it's

6:08

pretty much straight into the into

6:10

the Mark 2 Golf , ruck

6:12

2 riches Taking

6:14

a blowtorch and paint strip at your mint

6:16

corrosion free shell sounds pretty mental

6:19

to most people . But when Sam and Andrieski

6:21

third play to for

6:23

Sparrow and my surname right set

6:25

out to build his perfect VW show car

6:27

. It somehow made a perfect sense , by

6:30

the way , thanks to Dan Sherwood

6:32

who came in shop , and Dana

6:35

right up about the car really

6:38

nice guy . Hopefully , when

6:40

he gets a bit of time , he's going to pop over on the pod

6:42

as well . So

6:44

that's another picture , big

6:46

picture of me being an idiot presenting

6:49

my own car . What

6:51

the fuck was I thinking ? Alright

6:53

, let's

6:56

have a look . For some

6:59

people , towing the

7:01

line and going along with

7:03

the crowd isn't just part of the DNA

7:06

. They prefer to forge

7:08

their own path and stick two fingers

7:10

up to anyone who might question their unique

7:12

vision . Yep , fuck

7:16

people and fuck what everybody

7:18

else says . Do things as

7:20

you want , don't please anyone

7:22

else . Think that's the

7:24

way to do it , isn't it ? The

7:27

truth is , they don't really care what anyone else

7:29

thinks and live their lives on their

7:31

own terms , even if that means going completely

7:33

against the accepted great Yep . To

7:36

some it might sound like madness , but to others

7:38

, forging the norm can oh

7:41

no , it's not forging . Forgoing

7:44

the norm can be perfect way to

7:46

not only liberate your life but also stand

7:48

out the crowd . Yep , hello

7:51

, I Mean

7:53

the mock to doesn't pretty well . One

7:56

well one may well deserved in

7:58

the art of not giving a fuck is Simon

8:01

Andriesky . Yep , simon

8:04

is the operation smudging job for the detailers

8:06

girl with an S , not anymore

8:08

, but

8:12

the bottom now . Now I'm joking Creating

8:16

shit with my hands now , but

8:19

a carpentry you get me . Well

8:22

, this means he's very

8:25

lively with preserves around promoting

8:27

products to people who are Fastidious

8:29

about cleaning their cast . A show ready , shine

8:31

. Yep . With

8:34

this in mind , you'd think that he would have the cleanest

8:36

, most perfectly polished project going

8:38

. Expect you'd be wrong , very wrong

8:40

. As you see , simon is the owner

8:42

of the grotty looking mock to

8:44

golf . You see , on the on these pages , proposely

8:48

patina to Lucas , tough as he's just

8:50

rolled out the scrapyard . It's a card

8:52

. Has never seen a polishing cloth

8:54

, and that's true . The only thing I've ever

8:56

polished on that car was like the

8:58

wheels , engine bay , and

9:03

that's it , I think , in the windows

9:05

. But

9:09

then that's all the part of the look and

9:11

the path plan . Because the car , because

9:14

what's it say ? But

9:17

then that's all part of the plan , because look

9:19

a little closer and you see all the little Unkept

9:22

appearance of the interior is on

9:24

your skin deep . What

9:27

, what

9:29

? Oh , fuck

9:31

it . It

9:33

might not be the route that most people would take to

9:35

create a vision of a VW nirvana

9:38

, but for Simon it's a bang

9:40

on the bunny . I've always had

9:42

a thing for mark to golf , simon says , ever

9:44

since I saw one at VW show . My parents

9:46

took me in Poland Back

9:49

in two year 2000

9:51

. Yeah , I also said in previous podcast that

9:53

was the very first show I went

9:55

to , which was a VW mania

9:57

held in dinia I Dinnia

10:01

Stadium , super cool show

10:04

, naughty cars , and that's basically

10:06

what sparked interest in

10:08

this money

10:10

pill , the fucking hobby right and

10:13

the mark to could have easy

10:15

had a deposit for another house . But you

10:18

know you do things when you just

10:21

want to do . You know parents

10:26

took me to a show back in Poland back in

10:29

year 2000 . It was a note-green big

10:31

bumper model with VR6

10:33

turbo engine and Boba ace right

10:36

. That car was owned by a

10:38

guy called Vojtek

10:40

and he had no leg right

10:43

. He Giza had no , I think

10:46

he was left leg but

10:48

he had a manual car like

10:51

the manual VR6 turbo and

10:54

mate , he used to do wheel spins with it

10:56

. I don't know how . Giza

10:59

was amazing and that's

11:01

the car , basically that that

11:03

I always wanted to have , bowing

11:05

a little of a different route . And yeah

11:10

, countless cars have come and gone

11:12

from the Andrii Eski driveway . Well

11:14

, yeah , add a few

11:16

. Yeah

11:18

, the 30 cars

11:21

not all of them modified , but

11:23

yeah , I used to get bored when I

11:25

was younger with

11:27

the majority of them hailing from Volsberg

11:30

. Yep , but none of them

11:33

had quite the same effect on Sterner

11:36

page on Simon

11:38

as his current radical ride . No

11:41

, that's because that car was

11:44

, I believe , ever

11:46

registered or manufactured in

11:48

January 1991 and I was

11:50

born in January 1991 , so that

11:52

car ain't going nowhere . It's

11:54

my baby , it's basically

11:57

my twin brother from a German

11:59

mother . Right

12:02

, was a say here . So

12:05

you go through the details , we go through the dub

12:07

details , right . So

12:09

engine one more 1.8

12:11

liter , four cylinder , 25th turbo

12:14

, bam , engine force , the forge , pistons

12:16

and rods , titanium valves are braided bearing

12:18

standard cams . Bog were in

12:20

a turbo forged motorsport hoses

12:22

. And I bet about thanks for

12:25

to forge and Chris who's ? I think

12:27

Chris still works out forge , so thanks , chris

12:29

for sorting those bits out . Absolute fucking

12:31

legend . Bmc

12:33

CD a carbon air intake , upgraded

12:35

exhaust , manifold , tracks like stainless steel

12:38

, two and a half inch exhaust

12:40

system , big up to tracks like I was they again

12:42

. They scored me out with a really

12:44

good deal on that . Mercedes

12:46

Vito intercooler yeah , boy

12:49

, a standard . One point

12:51

three top-field radiator with mission

12:53

motto fan standard 1.8

12:55

turbo , copax , carbon

12:57

air intake pipes , carbon brake

12:59

servo and cylinder carbon slam panel

13:02

. Top mount covers covered in carbon

13:04

brushed alloy , custom air shroud

13:06

polished gearbox , an alternator

13:09

, bomb engine from old BAM

13:11

engine . Front engine mount mission

13:14

motto hose clamps . They were fucking

13:16

expensive but they're really good . Really recommend

13:18

them . Custom

13:21

full-scattered trace . So the whole piece is

13:23

made out of European

13:26

and English

13:28

Scattle panels , plastic

13:30

welded together quite easy to do

13:32

. They fucking expensive

13:34

these days and

13:36

power estimated to be 330

13:39

. They're all there abouts . It's

13:42

a mark three , 16 valves , five speed gearbox

13:44

with cable clutch and wave

13:47

track , lsd Carbon skin

13:49

mock to 16 valve drive

13:51

shafts connected to VR6 hubs , vr6

13:54

outer joints and it's a five start conversion

13:56

. Basically Drives

13:59

like a bag of shit . Not

14:01

gonna lie , it's not

14:03

the best car I've ever

14:06

driven . So

14:08

, going on to chassis , 10

14:10

by 17 France and 11 and a half

14:12

back , oz Fugiro Gen

14:14

one , beautiful

14:17

wheels . I've tried to find something different , rather

14:19

roti-form or BBS or something

14:21

to actually go with the look of a car , and I

14:23

can't find anything that actually looks

14:25

as good as the OZ's do . So

14:28

if you've got any ideas

14:31

, let me know . Air

14:36

lift suspension with KWV

14:42

to coil over damper . No

14:46

right , that's not right . So basically , the front

14:48

is H&R

14:50

ultra low kit

14:52

, no , the air lift front , yeah

14:55

, from this air lift . And the rear

14:57

is KWV

14:59

to with custom bags via

15:04

compresses with a pancake , like

15:07

hidden in a spare wheel . What actually

15:09

needs to come out ? I want to do a better book , build something

15:12

that goes with the car a little bit more , but

15:15

I

15:17

can't be fucked , can't be bothered . So

15:20

you need to find a little bit of

15:22

what you call it inspiration

15:26

. And then

15:28

you had the Brembo 996 brakes with

15:31

four-pot calipers , 302

15:34

discs , great , good ridged braided

15:36

lines and race brake fluid

15:38

. I mean it's absolutely pointless because it

15:40

can never get driven

15:42

that hard anymore . It's

15:45

not worth it . I've got a family , I'd

15:48

be fine . If you want me to be honest , I don't fully

15:50

trust the car Exterior

15:53

. But in this now , exterior

15:55

treatment rear arches cuts two inch

15:57

and tub to accommodate the

15:59

wheels . Front wings chopped vented

16:02

custom metal to live on the rear

16:04

, red gold , heckin

16:06

blend , zender rear spoiler . Vumiran

16:08

bolt on arches . Vumiran front back

16:10

, front back bill splitter underside

16:13

. Restored rust free old frames blasted

16:15

powder coated , gloss black . Old nuts and bolts

16:17

freshly zinc-plated yeah , it was basically gone

16:20

and mal restoration underneath

16:22

, with the tops looking

16:24

like absolute shit box

16:27

. Going down to interior

16:29

, we have Ford Escort RS2 , rs

16:32

Turbo S2 , recaro front seats with

16:34

6040 rear bench trim in Harris

16:36

Street , centus and grey Napa

16:38

lever done by LG Trimming Big

16:41

up . Lawrence , done an incredible job Fuck me Seven years

16:43

ago . Still

16:47

looks good as new , but

16:49

there's a little bit filthy because I just ain't cleaned it . It's

16:53

not to steering wheel , hurst gear stick

16:55

, electric front wing , electric

16:57

from window , sorry . Custom

16:59

seat runner , covers in brushed alley and custom air ride controller holder

17:02

in the event . So that's basically the spec of

17:04

the car . I

17:07

mean there is a little bit more like

17:09

Mark III VR6

17:12

fuel pump , custom

17:16

pipe work for the brakes , more bits points and

17:19

so on , more bits polished

17:21

in the engine bay . I mean full engine's been fully

17:23

redone and

17:26

whatnot . Yeah

17:29

, I mean there's some

17:31

cool pictures . I mean let me show you that's

17:37

started off there . That's

17:41

the first page of

17:43

the write up . There's

17:45

one going on to this . I

17:50

mean there's quite a few pictures here , right

17:54

, what does it say ? Going

17:57

back to the actual write up , I

18:00

have owned a lot of golfs over the years . Yeah , I've

18:03

owned about eight or

18:06

seven , I don't know Mark

18:10

II golfs , not including Mark IIIs

18:12

and Mark III cab and Mark III VR

18:15

and whatnot

18:17

. Fucking Kourados , right

18:22

, I've owned loads of Mark II , loads of golfs

18:24

over the years , but this one is definitely a key

18:26

part . Stays there , unconventional petrol

18:29

head . In fact , I plan to pass

18:31

on to my son when he's old enough to drive and

18:33

keep in the family . I mean , he's got

18:35

to have a choice , right , he's either going to get

18:37

the Mark II golf or the Fiat 126P

18:40

, which I'm going to try and do this year

18:42

over the winter . But

18:45

anyway , he's not going , unless

18:47

I really need to sell it About touch wood

18:49

, I won't . The

18:54

special connection with the car

18:56

was something that someone felt from the first minute

18:58

that he saw it . I've been

19:01

to look out for another Mark II golf that

19:03

I was considering buying as a parts car , but

19:05

it turned out to be a bit of a dog . Yeah . So

19:07

basically , me and James went out

19:10

to look out for a Mark

19:13

II BBS because

19:16

we already had a Mark II BBS for all the finance . He

19:18

wanted to buy another one for spare parts , but

19:20

it turned out to be an absolute dog shit . But

19:24

mate , he had like nine or 12

19:26

Mark II golfs in his yard and

19:29

that one was stacked away in the corner . My Mark II

19:31

was stacked away in the corner covered in fucking

19:33

bushes stinging it , all this shit growing

19:35

out of it . And yeah

19:38

, I mean , yeah

19:41

, I loved it . That's

19:44

why I've got it , but anyway . But

19:47

then the owner presented me with a further

19:50

nine Mark II golfs that he happened to have laying

19:52

around , and that's when I saw it . He originally

19:54

had 1.3 CL , notes

19:56

a 1.3 rider . I

19:59

don't know what the difference is between a CL and a rider . I

20:01

think it's just a bit of a trim , but it

20:04

was a little more than a rolling shell with windows

20:06

, devoid of an interior

20:08

and seized

20:11

in a living Coating

20:13

of moths and dirt . I mean , dan

20:15

Unpolish and

20:18

I'm dyslexic , right

20:20

, the words that you're using in here are

20:23

way too hard for me to pronounce , but

20:25

thank you . The

20:29

remarkable upside of this , of

20:31

that , is it was completely free of corrosion

20:34

, which it was . I mean , you had a little bit

20:36

of rust by the Front

20:38

scuttle , but we already got rid of that , and

20:40

then there is nothing else . This

20:44

nugget of it in info sparked an idea

20:47

in someone's head and bunny

20:49

found out that the Gulf date of manufacture

20:51

was January 1991 , the same

20:53

month and the year he was born . He knew it

20:55

was fate . Well , yes , I Actually

20:59

liked the look of the car when he was covered in moths he

21:01

laughs . So I planned to

21:03

keep it that way and modify it with any

21:06

macular engine bait , interior and wheels

21:08

. Unfortunately , for the first time I drove it in

21:10

the rain . All the moths and grain washed off

21:12

. Yeah , yeah , actually did happen . I was quite pissed

21:15

off about it because it was kind of nice and green

21:17

and moldy . Looking on , why

21:20

it's just nice . And then , yeah

21:22

, unfortunately Older

21:27

moths and grain washed off . So I hatched a plan

21:29

to regain a round down

21:31

look and I was so fond

21:33

of . For

21:36

starters , the cat was stripped to bare shell before

21:38

Simon could live live out his Tortocious

21:42

, tortcious tendencies on the golf's body

21:45

work . Fuck sake that . To

21:47

get the beating up , look I was

21:50

after the shell was Burn

21:52

sprayed , sanded and then clear coated , before having dust

21:54

, oil and metal filings thrown

21:56

at it , paste stripper , portal over it , along with some

21:58

additional airbrush and down . To complete

22:01

the effect . I

22:03

mean , there was so much more there's we pebble dash the front

22:05

with a bunch of keys to get the

22:08

look . Does if the cars been pebble

22:10

dashed on dirt roads and stuff like

22:12

that blow torches , sandpaper

22:15

engine May

22:20

. I think someone pissed on it

22:23

. Pretty sure cuts been pissed on air or on the interior

22:25

, because it's distinct at one point Simon reveals it

22:27

was a demonic grin . It was then left outside for a good

22:31

old British weather to do its thing . An agent

22:33

even more . Yeah , I mean , I left

22:35

the car outside for half a year . It's

22:38

done its thing , definitely . And then , yeah , I left it outside for

22:40

half a year Definitely

22:44

. And then , yeah , I'll have to believe

22:47

in it outside ever since every now and then a

22:49

part of the winter I'll put in a garage . Once

22:54

the interior had achieved peak patina

22:56

Sorry , once the exterior

22:58

had achieved peak patina , summon put . He

23:01

put away his Implement of automotive

23:03

agony and revealed his care inside

23:05

stripping and restoring the whole underside

23:07

of the car , including blasted and powder coating

23:09

, all of the subframes

23:12

and suspension components , gloss black

23:14

and zinc plating , every nut bolt

23:16

and and

23:18

the washer . Yeah , a lot of money

23:20

and a lot of time spending doing that

23:23

Definitely

23:26

. Time and money I'm not

23:28

gonna have for a while to do

23:30

it again . We

23:32

never say never it's done . I

23:34

mean that cars downer can be fucked with a new , more Can be fucked with a

23:36

new more and

23:38

right on to the next page . Hey

23:42

, for finesse

23:44

, cricky

23:48

mate , we put another picture

23:50

of me family . Why do I always

23:52

look so fucking stoned ? You

23:55

wouldn't guess from the exterior , but underneath

23:57

it spotless . Yeah , definitely

24:01

is Right . You

24:04

wouldn't guess it from the exterior , but underneath is

24:06

spotless . Reveal Simon proudly , which

24:08

is the thing that is continued into a smooth

24:10

and wire-tacked engine bay . Yeah , a Lot

24:13

of time went into that . A

24:15

lot of time and a lot of redoing things

24:18

. You'll do something

24:20

and then to do something in

24:22

relation to that and then to

24:24

do that , you need to cut this away . So

24:26

basically , a ten minute job turns into

24:28

two , three months of Just

24:32

doing shit , researching

24:34

and trying out things , spending Copious

24:37

amounts of money on parts from mainly

24:39

Euro car parts that Don't

24:41

fit . Even when you order three of

24:43

them under the same part number , they're all

24:46

three . Three bill be different and none of it will

24:48

fit back . I'm pretty sure you guys

24:50

have experienced that before . Framed

24:54

perfectly by the flawless coat of candy

24:57

Apple Reds is a fully forged

24:59

1.8 litre 20 valve turbo

25:01

engine encrusted in carbon fiber

25:03

with flashing of Polished

25:05

parts . This dual like motor has

25:07

been tuned into 330 brake horse power

25:10

Burge of by virtue of a bog

25:12

more on the turbo , upgraded exhaust

25:15

manifold and their BMCC da

25:17

carbon air intake In

25:20

Mercedes Vito intercooler . Right

25:22

, that's basically the cheapest option to

25:25

do . A conversion on a mark to golf With

25:28

a 1.8 turbo is to buy a Mercedes

25:30

Vito intercooler . Doesn't

25:32

look the best but it fits perfectly and

25:36

it does the job I Mean

25:39

. The next plan is to get Joe

25:42

up fresh with ref . Joe

25:45

up fresh with reflection . Sorry

25:47

, to do a custom

25:50

Rad and intercooler

25:53

integrated together . You

25:56

look better and slicker

25:58

, I think so . That's the

26:00

next plan for it . Tracks

26:03

like two and a half inch stainless steel exhaust systems

26:05

. Again , big up tracks lag . It's

26:08

a potent set . It's a potent setup

26:10

. Simon Grins , yep , it's nice , it's , it's

26:13

just enough . I mean still

26:15

, wheelspin in third , second

26:17

third gear . Wheelspin . So I mean

26:19

, is still point , is too much power for a mark to

26:21

go for With this up

26:24

, unless you're gonna track it and have

26:26

some sticky tires . This , yeah

26:29

, you know , is

26:32

what it is . Combined

26:35

with a mark 3 , 16 valves

26:37

, five speed gearbox and a wave track LSD , it

26:40

really shifts when you want it to and

26:42

it certainly turns head when you give us some

26:44

sticky . I mean , it is definitely a sleeper

26:46

and it does like to pop

26:48

and bang , as it did today on the way when

26:50

I was picking up this magazine , transferring

26:56

that protoges grant to the tarmac is

26:58

a set of 17 inch OZ Futuro

27:01

G1 wheels . I mean , I

27:03

love those wheels so much . When

27:06

I first bought them I paid to think it's like 450

27:08

quid with original center

27:10

caps , everything Mint

27:14

condition . And then I had

27:16

to get the wheels re-drilled from

27:18

5x120

27:20

to 5x112 because

27:22

how wide the wheels were in 5x100

27:25

sorry , because the

27:27

wheels were too wide for an adapter to be

27:29

run . And

27:32

then obviously we had to custom

27:34

drill the center caps , in which I've managed

27:36

to lose 0 for and I mean , if you know

27:38

anything about G1 Futuros

27:40

and its center caps , they're

27:43

fucking rare as rock and horseshit . They

27:45

just don't exist . And when they do pop up they

27:47

either silly money or they're in fucking

27:49

Lithuania or Russia or someone like that

27:51

. But they've managed to find a set after

27:53

three and a half years . No , yeah

27:56

, three and a half years it took

27:58

me to find a set and even they

28:01

cost me 350 bills . So , yeah

28:04

, don't

28:07

lose just G1 center caps , because there

28:09

are money measuring

28:13

10x17

28:15

on the front and 11 and a half on the rear

28:18

. These gritty hopes need substantial

28:20

arch-monde fake occasions to fit , especially

28:22

once the once the battered bodies

28:25

drop on its seals on

28:27

the custom right . So let

28:29

me tell you the story about the rear arches on this

28:31

car . So you've got , the swage

28:34

line on the Mark II Golf right runs

28:36

just below the fuel

28:38

cap right . So the arches

28:40

are about 25

28:43

mil below

28:46

the actual swage line

28:48

. So there

28:50

was a arch , original metal arch and then

28:52

basically the entire thing's been removed

28:54

and tubbed . It wasn't

28:57

the best work to do a lot of grinding

29:00

, welding and fucking around , but

29:03

if you want wide wheels on the Mark

29:05

II Golf , that's what you got to do , unless

29:07

the other thing was to top tub the arches

29:09

inside and

29:12

shorten the actual subframe back

29:14

. So you , that's just so much fucking work . Nobody

29:16

wants to do that . Rear

29:21

arches have been cut two inch , it knows , yeah

29:23

, two and a half inches and tapped to accommodate

29:25

the wheels , while the front wings have also been

29:27

chopped and vented . Some and says , even

29:30

when the things are really , even

29:33

now , the things are tight . I mean , yeah , they're right

29:35

that there is . There's

29:38

only two . What's I say ? There's

29:41

only a two mil gap between the wheel and the shock absorber

29:43

. I mean , yeah , you won't

29:45

fit a pack of Riesler in there , it's , it's

29:47

tight , it's really

29:50

fucking tight , but

29:52

it's awesome , it's , it's

29:55

nice

29:58

. The final piece of the puzzle was to

30:00

give the golf's interior the kind of luxury

30:02

touch that is usually the

30:05

preserve of the

30:07

perfect paint brigade . I mean , why

30:09

? Look at the hot rod scene and the rat rod scene

30:12

. Right , they do things different . Take

30:14

inspiration from them . Right , don't don't

30:17

be a V-dub , be a car nerd

30:19

, right , take inspiration

30:21

from different things and do what you want to

30:23

do . And well

30:26

. But it looks like there is another page to this crack

30:31

. You did , did go out with this , didn't they ? Only

30:36

interior . So I saw a pair of rickaro seats

30:39

from menesco RS turbo for 40

30:41

pounds . That was at edition

30:43

38 seven

30:45

or eight years ago , and the

30:48

reason I bought these seats it's not because I wanted

30:50

to do anything with it is it's

30:52

me , tristan and someone else would do in

30:54

addition , 38 on the auto finesse stand . And

30:56

Tristan came back from the auto jumble and goes

30:59

to me oh wow , there is

31:01

this set of sick rickaros

31:03

. They will need retrieving and stuff , but they're

31:05

on it . She gives them was like 80 pounds for it

31:08

. Yeah , half an hour later I

31:10

pretended to go for a pits but

31:13

I went to the auto jumble and managed to

31:15

get Giza down by

31:17

40 pounds . So I've bought the set

31:19

of rickaro seats for 40

31:21

pounds . And , yeah

31:26

, tristan wasn't happy , called me a good

31:28

break , come fucking all

31:31

kinds of different names that

31:33

was . That was a good addition . I think

31:35

we lit a bonfire inside a gazebo

31:37

that year because it was sprayed in by you

31:39

want to go bonfire ? So we had a

31:41

bonfire or a barbecue inside a gazebo

31:43

, fucked that up . James

31:46

wasn't happy , right

31:51

, I was a say Escobar turbo

31:53

40 pounds and mounted

31:55

them on some customized cobras up

31:58

frames . Someone remembers

32:00

, as you can imagine

32:02

, from the super low price , they were in their

32:04

right stay . I mean they did look , somebody's been fucking

32:06

sick on them . Shutter them whatever

32:09

, pissed on him , had gone away

32:12

or period wherever . So

32:15

I did take him down to Lou Lawrence

32:17

Gray , I algae trip , algae trimming . He's

32:20

done an incredible job . He's

32:23

done the seeds , the

32:25

door cards and he's done me a

32:28

very , very nice dashboard

32:30

cover that looks like

32:32

an Indian taxi . Lawrence

32:36

re-skin , direct reclinus in stomp

32:38

, your some Tony's

32:41

napple ever with the centers

32:43

door cars , headrest covered in tactile

32:48

fuck site Dan tactile

32:51

Harris tweet . You also

32:53

threw in a matching dashed opera and gear

32:55

gator to complete their cockpits

32:57

transformation . I mean there is still more

32:59

business I like to do . I just

33:01

did do the headliner

33:04

not that long ago . I mean Mark to space

33:06

. Matt did it for me so I'd like

33:08

to get the rib parcel

33:11

shelf retrim , then few other bits , but we'll

33:13

do that at some point . I

33:16

love how it all came together . Say

33:19

, salmon taking a type

33:21

from his herbo cigarette has

33:23

been added a frankly smelling

33:26

haste in the pics and

33:28

has lingered around the whole of

33:30

the show . I don't

33:33

know what you want about . I

33:36

really don't know what you want about herbal

33:42

cigarette . I'll read I know what

33:44

you guys thought about the

33:48

idea for me working for a detailing company

33:50

and having a dirty looking car that doesn't

33:52

need a lot of attention before shows . It's

33:54

exactly that kind of messed up humor

33:57

that floats my boat and other people

33:59

seem to like it . So that's true . I mean

34:01

or through never really

34:04

did take the car to any shows because I

34:06

used to usually drive the vans or

34:08

other cars of

34:10

all finesse , but

34:13

that's just changed now , something I've

34:15

done more shows since part

34:18

in ways of all finesse then in that

34:20

card and I have . In past

34:22

seven years I've owned it , but

34:27

whether you're on board with Simon's concept , all

34:29

you think is as mad as a box of frogs

34:31

in . The fact is it's not

34:33

particularly fast either way . Exactly

34:35

, guys , I don't give a fuck

34:38

. Don't give a fuck if you like the car or

34:41

not . I

34:43

like it , it's mine . He's

34:46

built his car his way and he's

34:48

not to please anyone else . And if

34:51

that's not to the very essence

34:53

of what car modifying is about

34:55

, then we don't know what his . Maybe

34:58

he's not that crazy after all . I mean

35:00

, you

35:03

know , I'm

35:06

not . I'm a

35:09

very well organized and

35:11

humble guy . But

35:15

that's it . That's pretty

35:17

good . I loved it . This

35:20

. This is basically been one of my dreams

35:22

to be on a in performance VW

35:24

where it was my

35:26

dream to build a car in first place and

35:28

take it to weather see , which it did happen , and

35:31

we did have an amazing trip with

35:33

water finesse . I think it was me , james

35:35

, sam

35:38

, fat Sam

35:40

, ed , matt that

35:43

we went on a little trip on the mark

35:45

to the goals , and it was , I think , that James

35:47

was in these M3 . That

35:49

was my dream . And then the other dream

35:52

was to be on a cover

35:55

of the magazine , which I've

35:57

managed to do twice , so with

35:59

the same fucking shit box , that's

36:02

it , but

36:05

nevertheless

36:07

, that's the magazine . It's

36:10

out now . Go and get it

36:12

, have a read . I'm

36:14

gonna have a look through a . And

36:17

is the go poster . Yeah

36:23

, guys , go to your doubt local

36:25

WH Smirfs and do a bye

36:27

. Bye , I'm gonna

36:29

sit down and have a

36:31

little read through . Everything else

36:34

was what's in the magazine

36:36

, so I will see you guys

36:38

on another episode of this podcast with

36:41

Jack Johnson .