Collecting Addicts Ep 13: The best looking car Hi-Fi systems

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  • Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025

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  • @Mike-bd3yp
    @Mike-bd3yp Год назад +131

    Really need to get photos up of the things you’re talking about guys

    • @pistonburner6448
      @pistonburner6448 Год назад +8

      Yeah, a pretty far-fetched and ridiculous subject to talk about...and then not even bothering with any visuals...

    • @1Krampo7
      @1Krampo7 Год назад +4

      Like Carmudgeon does. This looks like a cheap rip off and audio needs upgrade.

    • @vulcanus9384
      @vulcanus9384 Год назад

      @@1Krampo7 it's much simpler when it's all done in one studio, they'd need to have the pictures queued up or have an intern look them up during the discussion or edit them in after the podcasts been shot.

    • @professorcalculus5315
      @professorcalculus5315 Год назад +6

      It’s a podcast, they just put it on RUclips to humour you

    • @pistonburner6448
      @pistonburner6448 Год назад +3

      @@professorcalculus5315 So you're saying:
      -It's a good thing to make as bad a podcast as possible...better to just have the podcast fail as people tune out
      -You are the internet police and you/re saying we don't have the right to speak and comment or give constructive criticism in the section called: "comments section"
      -You were raised with only coddling praise and you can't handle anyone speaking the truth, you don't know how to process critical feedback
      -Everything & everyone must only be given participation trophies and everyone must only ever be told they're special. No need to ever improve anything, develop anything, learn from any mistakes, the only thing that matters is protecting little angels' feelings from anyone saying anything but praise.

  • @alistairweekes3190
    @alistairweekes3190 Год назад +37

    Timestamps:
    1:00: BMW M2
    11:42: Best Looking Car Hi-fi
    27:14: Dedicated Driving Shoes
    41:02: Most Embarrassing Reason to have Bought a Car
    57:19: GT3 at Le Mans
    1:08:00: 2 Car Garage
    1:17:29 Driving Tunes

  • @SprowstonRipper
    @SprowstonRipper Год назад +40

    You’ve really struck upon something good with this new format chaps, please please keep it going!

  • @jasondurden2803
    @jasondurden2803 Год назад +4

    Essential listening/ viewing. In 1986, my dad had an E28 M535i (with the dog leg 5speed). To this day I remember the Blaupunkt New York SQR 82. I thought it was the coolest buttonfest ever.

  • @_MasterP
    @_MasterP Год назад +10

    What a great show love it every week with this gang, seems to get better and better. Thank you gents!

  • @gregbergh6140
    @gregbergh6140 Год назад +9

    Love your work chaps! This remains my weekend fix for a smile.

  • @craggercragger8989
    @craggercragger8989 Год назад +2

    My Dad had a Blaupunkt Memphis SQR 88. I remember this in 1992 onwards (vaguely, as I was 3). He added a separate Blaupunkt CDP-09, single DIN, single slot CD player which he had to buy a separate plastic carrier from Halfords (or similar) and mount that under the dashboard, so fit the CD player in to. I loved this, it was genuinely upsetting when it eventually got retired.
    I remember in being in his white, A reg Escort Estate with the CARTRIDGES for the single CDs to sit inside of, sitting on the floor of the car under the heating vents to warm them up because if too cold, the CD player unit would show an error because of condensation.
    Great days.

  • @vitaliyyavtukhovskyi5947
    @vitaliyyavtukhovskyi5947 Год назад +2

    What an enjoyable chat, I learn so much!! Listening to you guys makes me feel like I'm with my kind of people :)

  • @taxus750
    @taxus750 Год назад +1

    0:49:00 When Neil started talking about Bristol (the car builder) LJKS came straight to mind - he was always an aficionado of the marque, and thank you Neil for reciting a passage of his.

  • @venice121
    @venice121 Год назад +1

    Got to draw your attention to Texarkana, it’s where Smokey and the Bandit bootlegged the Coors beer from!
    Mentioned in the “East bound and down” track from the film score by Jerry Reed (I think!)
    🚙💨 🚚🚓🚓🚓🚓

  • @uGotGot1618
    @uGotGot1618 Год назад +8

    WE NEED PICTURES OF WHAT THEY ARE REFERENCING!!!!! Great pod though!

  • @jackiechan8840
    @jackiechan8840 Год назад +5

    Easily my favourite Podcast. Cheers boys.

  • @albertperks3476
    @albertperks3476 Год назад +2

    Chris Cooper "I might have said go faster" hilarious : )

  • @mattylf1
    @mattylf1 Год назад +3

    I used to love the 80s Hi Fi's that had buttons and lights and you had to have a Graphic Equalizer with the LED lights that would change with the music. Great times. As far as drving shoes goes, they have to be narrow for the pedals in the lot of cars, so I use some Puma trainers as I found my normal trainers used to rub against each other. Great chat as ever.

  • @markmawer
    @markmawer Год назад +2

    Nipped out to the shops last summer in the Atom and couldn't be arsed swapping sandals for sparco shoes. Got my foot stuck under the brake pedal long enough to shit myself and will never make the same mistake again. Some pedal boxes are so tight even a pair of size 10 trainers are too big. Thanks for the great podcast fellas.

  • @opbk88
    @opbk88 10 месяцев назад +1

    I’m not tall - 5’11 or 181cm - but I am possessed of unusually large feet (UK13). As a result, I find it quite difficult to drive older hot hatches (they seem particularly prone to simian driving positions courtesy of packaging limitations I suppose). My Peugeot GTi6 is a cracking thing to drive, though only if I take my shoes off!

  • @ChrisFEJackson
    @ChrisFEJackson Год назад

    Music track, Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf. A Shell advert from the 80's where a chap is filling his 944, looking at clear empty roads around him as the day has broken, with the remains of morning dew still glistening on the tarmac. He sees the realisation of the time & place, enters the garage to pay for his petrol and buys a cd off the rack, adorns his shades once back in the car and heads out, there is a shot of the front wheel of the 944 as he is about to get on the road, one last check and then the music starts as he blasts off. I loved that advert and then the song. I tried to replicate in my 1980 TR7 in the day and it just didn't work :)

  • @davemagick6739
    @davemagick6739 Год назад +3

    Adidas Samba. Wear them in and down a bit, and they’re the best low-key drivers.

  • @alwaysonboost
    @alwaysonboost Год назад +7

    Can we get timestamps lads?

  • @R15-HWD
    @R15-HWD Год назад

    Top quality as ever. Had to immediately blast Jimi Hendrix all along the watchtower after listening to this. Great choice Manish!

  • @jealva
    @jealva Год назад

    My favorite part of the LeMans is watching the cars through the Porsche Curves at night. LeMans is a must for any true racing fan.

  • @veemacks7255
    @veemacks7255 Год назад

    Glad to see the description mentions they know about the sound issues. It annoys me when I'm on my daily walk listening to this and after turning up the volume loud enough to hear the quietest voices I get deafened by the loudest. Audio normalisation/compression is required.

  • @kevincoombs7348
    @kevincoombs7348 Год назад +1

    Good to hear Bristol talk.
    I sold aluminium to Bristol Cars Filton in the '60/70's and would often see company owner Anthony Crook test driving prototypes, always with reg 100MPH and MPH100.

  • @ruleofones
    @ruleofones Год назад +2

    Chris! Check out the Onitsuka Tiger Serrano. Its the successor to the Ultimate 81 and i think will definitely do the trick for you. I rock em since the 81s have been gone.

    • @venice121
      @venice121 Год назад

      81’s still available, although took a while to source some, just bought a pair from Fenwick (Bond Street) 👍👍

  • @sprintermaximus
    @sprintermaximus Год назад

    Love the chat on GT3 etc. Hardcore GT fan here so this type of interest is great. Thanks as always for the podcast, it is awesome!

  • @glennrickwood7532
    @glennrickwood7532 Год назад +1

    Really loving the podcast chaps. Keep up the good work! 👍

  • @nigelabraham1
    @nigelabraham1 Год назад

    Another great episode. Keep it coming lads. Also great to hear the rally chat. Terry cabie great driver him and Tony pond.

  • @flat6jme
    @flat6jme Год назад +1

    Great work as always. Thank you!

  • @Andy_Holbrook332
    @Andy_Holbrook332 Год назад

    Guys, you seem to have sorted the sound out in each persons location and the lighting. G’stuff.
    Brilliant content

  • @maverick4177
    @maverick4177 Год назад +3

    Nakamichi early stereos along with Alpine made some superb car stereos 👌🏻

    • @colinhathaway9493
      @colinhathaway9493 Год назад

      Was always an alpine man when I had to put my own stereos in my cars

  • @italsounds001
    @italsounds001 Год назад

    Until a few weeks ago, I had a collection of vintage car radios, from Becker & Blaupunkt, Autovox, Philips, even an auto Mignon, just sold the lot (about 40) apart from the ones in my own cars, which are all 60/70’s Blaupunkt.. Frankfurt BMW badged in my 2002.

  • @RdnkB
    @RdnkB Год назад

    every time the focus is on Chris I can`t fight myself not to look on the candel with his face on it

  • @RustyBonnet
    @RustyBonnet Год назад +1

    Post disappears, possibly due a link. Anyway as I was saying...I hankered after a Nakamichi head unit but settled on the legendary Apline 7909 with its 4v pre outs. I had a raft of head units over the years until I bought the 1 series(123D). Flip front Kenwood's where it rotated into the unit and even Mini Disc at one point (Still a great format) Finally gave up on retrofit car audio. (Indeed it could do with up grading even in the M140 I now have)
    Best audio I have seen this month was in a Tickford Mini on car and classic. It had a Clarion G80 seperates system. Power amp, tape deck and a pre amp/Equaliser. Awesome.

    • @weaksignal8009
      @weaksignal8009 Год назад +1

      Minidisc, still better than cds

    • @RustyBonnet
      @RustyBonnet Год назад

      @@weaksignal8009 Hmmm, definitely better than the Audio Cassette, which is what i always thought it should have been marketed as a replacement for not the CD. Still a great format.

  • @pauletherington8229
    @pauletherington8229 Год назад

    I loved the Blaupunkt stereo in a Volvo my dad had, it just oozed quality!

  • @memememine1
    @memememine1 Год назад

    I must have been 8 or so when I first saw the Audi A8 with those popup Bang and Olufsen tweeters. It's almost a common thing now but back in 2006 it completely blew my mind and has stayed with me ever since. Edit: posted this comment before finishing but it was one of Edwards.

  • @kenengrie
    @kenengrie Год назад

    I have a Blaupunkt Casablanca CM62 (the ones with the security card) which my dad bought for his passat 35i early 1990's, after the car got sold the radio got put in the bathroom and was used for the better part of 20 years as a cheap radio on a daily basis. One day I thought about it and removed it from said bathroom and replaced it with the Sony Xplod I had in my 1986 golf mk2 gti, I've now had that car for 14 years and that radio still works! Sadly the GTI and the radio will be for sale on collecting cars soon. The Radio still looks good because dad had put a power button next to the radio so you could turn it on without having to touch it.

  • @akadanielmaia
    @akadanielmaia Год назад +5

    I know its hard but it would be so much better if you edited the podcast video to have images of things you are talking about

  • @applejuice5272
    @applejuice5272 Год назад

    12:57 Everyone nodding lol

  • @alistairmassarella4508
    @alistairmassarella4508 Год назад +1

    Brilliant as ever.

  • @Finlandese
    @Finlandese Год назад

    No Panasonic cockpit!?! The roof stereo from Turbo Essex esprit should surely warrant a consideration?

  • @doug3011
    @doug3011 Год назад

    extraneous eloquent fixation. I love this podcast. just watched the Senna NSX vid..can anyone explain his unique throttle applications early-mid corner? he had a very individual style.

  • @timskemp
    @timskemp Год назад

    I'm with Chris on the higher end Alpine stereos, had one that moved from car to car with me until it was stolen from Gatwick airport car park.
    As for driving shoes I hate to say I have two pairs of speedcats, one Porsche branded one Mercedes AMG but actually rarely bother, finding the best thing for 'feel' as anything with a thin sole and minimal edge - if you want to try something unusual try the Vibrant Furoshiki...

  • @aaronventosa4741
    @aaronventosa4741 Год назад

    For hifi as said by Ed, the Bang and olufsen Audi S8 of mid 2000s is the best modern hifi i can remember

  • @alilaws8365
    @alilaws8365 Год назад

    Great podcast as always lads. Almost dare not admit it, but my Dad had some driving gloves (well, it was the 1960s). Glad the sound quality is improved. I know Chris H is the host, but why does his head look so much bigger than everyone elses? Some pictures would be good along the way for those of us with less knowledge.

  • @chrishawkins4342
    @chrishawkins4342 Год назад

    I did wear a race suit to a track day but it was an aeroscreen Caterham in late October and I would happily have worn every piece of clothing I could find 🥶

  • @beano6452
    @beano6452 Год назад

    Talking about HiFi and the levels on this Pod are all over the place.

  • @bukwok
    @bukwok Год назад

    i forgot whats brand of hifi system, but i just love car hifi units have equalizer, 16 band eq, and some little dim green or orange light , it looks awesome at night.

  • @andrewhurstcars
    @andrewhurstcars Год назад +2

    The original sketches of the new M2 by designer Jose Casas look great. The production car just doesn’t have the same proportions.

  • @forsh3546
    @forsh3546 Год назад

    I have a pair of Site work boots that press the brake when I trry to press the throttle!

  • @tomneil6830
    @tomneil6830 Год назад

    I’ll add my “why I bought a car story.” In 1968 my uncle gave me a Fenton dual carb intake manifold for a p15 Plymouth, but I didn’t own one. Years late when eBay came around I planned to sell it, having moved it from apartment to house to house over the years. Within about a month while driving around the state of Michigan I drove by three P15 Plymouths for sale. Upon arriving back home I said to my wife, God does things in threes and I’ve seen three cars for this manifold. So it must be a sign that I should buy a car rather than sell the manifold. So I bought a car and started restoring it and 10 years later I still have it and enjoy driving it on tours and to car shows.

    • @cosmicspanner
      @cosmicspanner Год назад

      Did you end up using your manifold, though? 😅

  • @kevincoombs7348
    @kevincoombs7348 Год назад

    And another thing Bristol;
    in '54 they made three 450's and won their class at the Sarthe, and again the following year.

  • @sresto7943
    @sresto7943 Год назад

    As for the top car audio, and in the era of the Alpine 7618R would be the Kenwood KRC-957R, the genuine Mask with steel motorised panel to hide the front, it was also sold with free 1 year insurance that if it was stolen they would replace it for free, at the time in 1993ish it was £950 with cd changer, not cheap, and mine will be going back in my 309 Goodwood.

  • @petekimberley4090
    @petekimberley4090 Год назад +1

    It had to be Kenwood or Alpine.....with Alpine just nudging it .... 👍

  • @Hostilenemy
    @Hostilenemy Год назад +1

    The frontal area of the new M2 looks like it was taken straight out of NFSU2.

  • @wellsyandcars
    @wellsyandcars Год назад

    All those stereos are available on E Bay, while watching the video I am pausing and having a look. That Sony unit is sexy.

  • @mikelennon3205
    @mikelennon3205 Год назад

    That extract that Neil read out was fucking brilliant

  • @alandunlop2681
    @alandunlop2681 Год назад

    I’ve still got an Alpine 7525r head unit that hasn’t been in a car for 20 odd years.

  • @kevincoombs7348
    @kevincoombs7348 Год назад

    Best intro to any song is White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
    Fact!

  • @RichN22
    @RichN22 Год назад

    2 car garage would be a 2016 Alpina D3 3.0 touring, one for sale now on auto trader for £23999 and a 1990 Golf Rallye one for sale now £35k.... smashed it....

  • @jlo1169
    @jlo1169 Год назад

    so true on the driving shoes. piloti are the best becuase they are understated

  • @gordonsimpson3235
    @gordonsimpson3235 Год назад

    Car design....it wasn't always thus (that we had to 'get used' to new designs). 2002 to E21 everyone was very excited, and rightly so. E21 to E30 even more so.
    E12 to E28...fantastic, E23 to E32 the same...I could go on, but you get my drift.
    I just think that BMW design has gone down the pan , and to me Bangles horrors haven't improved with age.
    Don't even get me started on the saggy arsed Z3 (Nagashima).
    Car stereo....in my BMW days the Blaupunkt Berlin was the ultimate with the graphic equaliser on a stalk...hugely expensive. Mid Eighties Alpine was the way to go. 7618R was the nuts (as you said Chris). We fitted quite a few of these at the time in new BMW's.

  • @davidg4026
    @davidg4026 Год назад

    Jensen R410 head unit - circa 1980
    Sperry canvas boat shoes

  • @rdsreference
    @rdsreference Год назад

    Alpine 7944 also a sensational unit with a copper chassis. Although you can't see it! Unfortunately

    • @colinhathaway9493
      @colinhathaway9493 Год назад

      I think I still have one somewhere. Saving it for when I get something from the 80s or 90s to go in

  • @StrikeEngine
    @StrikeEngine Год назад

    Not knowing Texarkana is an actual place? Neil letting the best in life pass him by - "East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'"

  • @SDumitru23
    @SDumitru23 Год назад +2

    Perhaps BMW has a management/marketing problem and not necessarily a design one. They build those dog awful behemoths for the Chinese market and then they shove them in European showrooms to make money for designing 46 almost SUVs.
    Just keep the markets distinct.

  • @Th3wobbler
    @Th3wobbler Год назад

    Chris cooper hit the nail on the head, the BMWs are not ugly per say but elelgence has been lost broadly across the market. maybe a space jaguar ca move into. elegant luxury.

  • @aza111
    @aza111 Год назад

    Great podcast but please up the volume, if I listen to it on my phone I have to have the volume on Max.

  • @StrikeEngine
    @StrikeEngine Год назад

    It ironic that cars that don't emit CO2 are referred to as "green". When "green" things like plants require CO2 in order to live

  • @thatguy2227
    @thatguy2227 Год назад

    Old guys: cars used to be prettier.
    ChatGPT: you lot are obsolete.

  • @OVER5TEER
    @OVER5TEER Год назад

    Great pod again but really missed the inserts. I had to pause every 3 minutes to google images...

  • @MM-xr6tz
    @MM-xr6tz Год назад

    Bit bloody late today lads, had nowt to watch over lunch.

  • @markmushypeas313
    @markmushypeas313 Год назад

    Old Crocs are the best driving shoes!

  • @hrsjohnny
    @hrsjohnny Год назад

    how can you not admit e60 design in 2023! it has aged so well, not many car designs have done that.

  • @wellsyandcars
    @wellsyandcars Год назад

    Question if I may - driving gloves or not driving gloves?? And if yes what colour??

  • @Sideways_Singh
    @Sideways_Singh Год назад +1

    We need pics of stuff being talked about please

  • @DeanMackenziebelldmb
    @DeanMackenziebelldmb Год назад

    That's a few times one of them has said ev vehicles are green when we all know they are far from it

  • @teddyvaux9207
    @teddyvaux9207 Год назад

    New show title after this show, 5 car knobs

  • @taxus750
    @taxus750 Год назад

    On the off-chance you blokes are taking suggestions from the audience for future segments, may I suggest "your favourite car journalist" as a subject. Obviously, it will be someone who's older than yourselves; a quote or two from them to illustrate their mastery of the craft would go a long way too. I'd nominate LJKS (a bit recondite) and Russell Bulgin. Over to you...

  • @Addidas3555
    @Addidas3555 Год назад +2

    Bristol’s 411’s are still the same price now 😂 Inflation proof

  • @billdexhart5179
    @billdexhart5179 Год назад

    I love these, but please when they say they'll pop the photos on screen, do so.
    I usually have no idea what you're talking about so a visual would be helpful. It would make the podcast way more approachable

  • @bradders3535
    @bradders3535 Год назад +1

    I bought an Alpina B10 3.3 Touring because it was build number 69...

  • @smiffyLevel6
    @smiffyLevel6 Год назад

    The problem with Le Mans is that no really cares for a 24 hour race anymore? They would be better having it set to 3 hours of individual class cars not all racing at the same time imo?

  • @garethallen1441
    @garethallen1441 Год назад

    What is that picture of chris on a jar near the window??

  • @KarlkEst
    @KarlkEst Год назад

    Casual Piloti shoes look nice, feel nice and are not oversized like most sneakers. Do not get the hate.
    I love driving in winter but hate it at the same time because most winter boots are too big.

  • @SDumitru23
    @SDumitru23 Год назад

    Started watching this in the middle of painting a pair of Nikes with the E9 CSL ART Car livery on them😂

  • @rallygaz
    @rallygaz Год назад

    great show guys if I had the chance to ask you guys a question it would be, When you were growing up what car did you lust after but would not be seen dead in today lol.

  • @benpenagonzales6014
    @benpenagonzales6014 Год назад

    I have some Kurt Geiger driving loafers. On the inside it has some suede panels and one side says “left foot breaker “ embossed in it. Someone should have translated that better!

  • @MP_pov
    @MP_pov Год назад

    The nerd level has just gone up a notch. Need to read up on classic Becker head units. For me, the best looking head unit, or most memorable, was whatever was the first single din Pioneer in early 2000s with a flip out screen. My mind was blown. Also, McLaren 570s B&W speakers look epic.

  • @inthehoods8100
    @inthehoods8100 Год назад

    Best car hifi has to be the Lotus Esprit Essex, in the roof lining

  • @jem4054
    @jem4054 Год назад

    i have a pair of the kenwood mclaren speakers too.....

  • @benpenagonzales6014
    @benpenagonzales6014 Год назад

    You forgot the Alpine hifi campaigns with the countach and the blue pulse

    • @benpenagonzales6014
      @benpenagonzales6014 Год назад

      Ah ok! Chris said it. But remember Ford with the separate equaliser in the mid 80s.

  • @petetofani4896
    @petetofani4896 Год назад

    One of my issues with the M2 is it just keeps getting bigger and heavier.

  • @f35500
    @f35500 Год назад

    Very sage thoughts from the team esp Neil
    Getting use to the new, and certainly the car is prob better
    But current Bmw front styling is horrid, inelegant is being kind ! The back catalogue is good looking cars the current is not good looking at all can not see looking better with time!

  • @forsh3546
    @forsh3546 Год назад

    Rover 400 'cos it fitted a double buggy in the boot followed by a Toyota Previa (8 seat)

  • @colmcoakley3916
    @colmcoakley3916 Год назад +1

    R.I.P. Craig Breen.

    • @banzai385
      @banzai385 Год назад

      This must have been recorded before his crash, Chris would have mentioned the great man for sure !

  • @markhodgkiss1366
    @markhodgkiss1366 Год назад

    Ultimate 81's were the kings.... Now it's Sorrento's. They are thinner, tighter and better

  • @jem4054
    @jem4054 Год назад

    I found someone who is putting DAB/Bluetooth gubbins into vintage radios. So my P5B is going to have a banging 50wpc Motorola lol

  • @Carrera-gp9od
    @Carrera-gp9od Год назад

    I loved my Alpine stereos too , I had my AX GT all kitted out
    alpine head unit
    Alpine 5 ch amp
    6x9 infinity speakers
    Alpine sub
    All that kit probably weighed more than the car 😂😂

  • @tshegosepeng458
    @tshegosepeng458 Год назад

    Did Chris just reveal acquisition of an M5 CS...

  • @adogmcdizzle
    @adogmcdizzle Год назад

    Neil's audio a bit quiet this week on the apple podcast app. Seem's ok here.