"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage Eric Bana." "I love it how when they, um these guys that race cars, every time something fucks up, they're blaming something." "They're blaming something, you know." "Middle of the race they pull over, you know." "And there's nothing visually wrong with the car." "And you walk up and you go what's going on?" "What's wrong you know." "And they go the gearbox is fucked and the tyre was rubbing,and all this sort of stuff." "there's always someone to blame something to blame." "Just once I'd like to hear this you know so what happened out there." "Bit scared." "Do you know how fast this thing goes?" "Fuck I'm driving and there's people everywhere and just not giving me any room, and I don't have any insurance." "What happens if I hit a Mercedes?" "When I was a kid." "I dreamed of being a race car driver." "If It had wheels and an engine, I wanted to drive it." "Cars to me were what you lived for." "There was nothing else." "As I got older fate, luck and circumstance had other ideas." "Not that I'm complaining of course." "Even though life has taken me on a surreal and unexpected journey, two things have remained constant." "My mates and my BEAST!" "This is our story." "#LOVE THE BEAST#" "I think when most people picture a childhood in Australia, especially if they're from overseas, they have this iconic image of beautiful sandy beaches and sun and surf." "Oh the dream." "The closest me and my mates got to surf was watching Hawaii 5-0." "We grew up in the suburbs of Melbourne." "Right next to the airport in a semi industrial area surrounded by warehouses and factories." "So essentially we were landlocked mammals." "It was the era of the muscle car." "Before people were worried about the environment." "Before filling up your tank required taking out a second mortgage." "So I grew up surrounded by big engines and big cars." "And the place where all these muscle cars were raced was Bathurst." "Australia's equivalent to Le Mans." "There was a historic moment in the 1977 race when Alan Moffat and Colin Bond both driving Ford Falcon coupes, pulled off the first ever 1,2 finish." "For me this was better then seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon." "Magnificent view from the Seven helicopter." "A scene we've never seen before." "It was one of those moments that truly gets etched in your mind." "And from that moment on I just simply fell in love with that car." "What got Eric into driving seriously was like every kid back in the 70's, watching Peter Brock and Dick Johnston and Allan Grice all those guys racing Bathurst." "And when I was 16 I convinced my older brother to buy an XB falcon coupe because he was driving around in an Alfa Romeo and I'm like" "Stan mate you'll never get laid if you drive an Alfa Romeo mate you gotta get a hot car mate, you gotta get a GT or something." "Well you know we're talking northern suburbs here, where cars were ya status symbol you know and um that was like the greatest car of all time when you're 16." "She's the last of the V8's" "Shut the gate on this one Maxxy it's the ducks guts" "Yeah, she's the last of the V8's, she sucks nitro" "I was already determined to one day own a Falcon coupe." "So you could imagine the impact on me when I saw Mad Max." "Here I was nine years old in the western suburbs of Melbourne with a suppressed creative bent, seeing Mel Gibson marry the two things that I loved the most:" "Cinema and a Falcon Coupe." "I had seen the future and it had changed my life forever." "I've never met anyone thats had a car for so long that was such a heap of shit that could be so in love it." "You know like you would have thought as he made more money that he'd go and buy one that was better and really good condition but na he's just persisted with that particular car." "When I was 15 I convinced my Dad to let me buy a Falcon coupe of my own." "It wasn't exactly like the ones they raced at Bathurst." "You could say it needed a lot of work but I could see its potential." "1974 XB coupe doesn't look the best at the moment but that's because it's not." "Pretty shit-ouse the viewers at home are saying." "I immediately enlisted the help of my mates to help work on the car and transform it from the rust bucket that it was, into the beast I knew it could be." "From the age of 15 my coupe was our campfire it was what we gathered around, it was the excuse to come together." "There was always something to do to keep it on the road and if we weren't driving it, we were working on it." "It kept us out of trouble and it kept us in my parents garage." "The Garage was like a club house for me and my mates Tony, Jack and Temps." "We were always out there." "In our cave, in our cocoon." "It felt like my entire youth was spent in that garage." "Well it's always been about friendship and thats how you'd sum that car up." "It's about keeping the bond you know and ah feeling, feeling that youth." "Cos that feeling of youth is fantastic so, and the coupe always makes you feel like your 16 again." "So I mean that's how we're getting by, you know." "I have a favourite name for them, I call them the Essendon Grammar Mafia, car mafia." "Because they've been with that car for nearly 24 years now and it's been a collective effort, ah through all the years through all the 3 different rebuilds that the car has gone through." "I kind of feel totally responsible for all of that because it was ah with my approval that we got the car for him." "The T-Bird was the start wasn't it?" "That was the pride and joy, Eric would bring his mates, well Eric's friends were always at our place so when the T-Bird came along that was even more of a tinkering." "Ivan used to take them for drives around the block or down the freeway or whatever so yeah it was a big part of it." "When was the last time you, you um turned it over?" "The last real usage was on your wedding day" "Wedding day." "Which is 10 years." "Dad can I ask what that is?" "Well it's to, soak up any any fuel leak on the carby." "It's a good thing you didn't start just then cos it would have bloody flamed up." "Well" " Go on why don't you turn it over." "Don't touch the accelerator, I'll do it from here." "Good luck." "Stop!" "Have a look at the fuel pissing out of the bowl." "It's coming out of the gasket on the primer at the front, it's just pissing out." "Ok let's give it once just for the pure stupidity of it." "Again." "Na, let's stop." "It's gonna catch fire if we keep going." "I got a fire extinguisher!" "You've got a fire extinguisher did you say?" "Yeah somewhere in the kitchen" " How old do you reckon it would be Dad?" "Not as old as the car." "I remember as a 17 year old in Germany, looking at a American dealership display window with a 59 Fair lane," "stood there for half an hour looking from different angle and said one day I'm going to have a large American car." "Bana's old man had an old T" " Bird and it weighs a tonne and its got springs but I don't think it's got any shocks in it he come past my place one night." "I used to live in a double story house with my parents." "And he thought it was me looking through the upstairs bedroom window and it was actually my old man so he's come down the road and he's just stopped the car out the front of the house and he'd take off and then slam the brakes on." "So this car would go..." "And he just slammed it up and down the road about ten times." "And Bana's showing off more and more cos he thinks it's me out the window going hey and it's my old man going you fuckin' idiot who are you?" "So yeah he impressed my old man big time." "I didn't have the courage to tell my old man until about ten years later that it was actually Bana that night that did that." "It was his daily driver for a long long time." "Used to get dropped off to school in this car every day and do a few miles in it." "So yeah it's done it's job." "Used to be green." "Used to be green and then it was two tone green, had a vinyl roof." "And then he decided he wanted a red Thunderbird." "So here it is." "It's what non car people don't get." "They see all cars as just a tonne and half, two tonnes of wires, glass, metal and rubber." "That's all they see." "People like you or I know." "We have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities." "Well not a Toyota Corolla obviously." "A real." "You can develop a relationship with a car and thats what non car people just don't get" "I keep some of the fancy stuff in here." "These are all Bugatti's." "Everything here is on the street." "We drive them all." "That's the great thing about California." "I got more stuff in here." "Have you had a relationship with any of your cars?" "Oh I've had a relationship with all of my cars." "I can't sell anything." "Oh no I never sell anything." "Oh god no." "I never sell anything." "But have any of them ever not lived up to your expectations?" "Let's just say the tank car." "You know I've always been happy with whatever I've had." "I mean when I had a, there's my 55 Buick road master next door." "I bought that in 72 when I first came here." "And I slept in it, and I lived in it." "It was a junky old car and I loved it and I enjoyed it." "When I got enough money I fixed it up." "I never sell anything." "I mean there all still here." "I just buy another building." "So how much of it is the getting together and building the car?" "Well the great fun is getting together and building the car and once you finish it, you move onto the next project." "We never quite managed to move onto that next project, we just kept working on the coupe." "In 1996 we turned it into a race car for the first time." "Me, Tony, Temps and Jack." "We did all the work ourselves and entered it into our first ever race." "A 5 day endurance rally called Targa Tasmania." "We took it down to Tasmania and it was just like being a kid in a candy store." "It was too good to be true." "You could drive the car as fast as you wanted and fast as you possibly could and there were no limits, you're just hooning around someone's streets legally and there's police on the side of the roads clapping and cheering and" "you just can't believe it you are waiting for blue lights to appear in your rear-view mirror and to be arrested but its all above board and encouraged." "Let's do it again." "Let's get back in line." "We had no real expectations other then to finish and have some fun, but we finished 3rd in our class in our first attempt." "And next up ladies and gentlemen, Eric Bana." "Enter the big Ford." "We didn't even realise at the time how difficult that was to do." "Eric has been throwing this big car around the course over the last few days." "A very good sight." "And that was it." "That was the start of the real thing." "My first proper race, and the bug had bitten." "I was hooked." "After that I was going to try and get to as many events, as many rallies and circuit races as I possible could." "I mean I enjoy working on cars and trying to restore them." "But in the same way that I wasn't particularly good at kicking a soccer ball or playing football." "Race car driving is a sport." "I mean your a natural athlete." "I'm not a natural athlete." "So I don't go out there and." "I don't want to know how bad I am you know it's a bit like," "I enjoy having sex I don't want to be a porn star." "I just enjoy it so that's why I don't race." "It's hard for me to describe my obsession with motor racing." "Or what it actually feels like to drive a race car on the limit." "There's a focus and an intensity that I just don't find anywhere else." "You're always on the edge and you're never holding anything back." "it's just tense tense every second." "It's a zone that feeds your competitive nature." "When a car gets past you, you just want to go after them, you wanna chase them down, and you wanna pass them." "It's primal." "But then there's another side to it." "Where you just completely forget about all the other cars on the track and you feel like you are in another world." "It's just you at one with the road and the car." "It's amazing." "When you get in the zone." "Everything works." "Your hand is working." "Your brain is working." "Your body is working." "It's that point at which you bring all your skill, all your ability, all your intellect, all your focus right down to that task at hand." "You've hit a rhythm and you've hit a focus that is a peak performance range for you." "When you're in the zone you do feel a sense of invincibility." "Like, you feel like superman." " Yeah." "What is that about and can that make it a dangerous thing?" "Well it can if you get to believing that your bullet proof." "Because there ain't a zone where your bulletproof." "It's peak performance." "It's not immortality, it's not invulnerability." "And you know we, we have to know what our limitations are." "All the stuff that we hopefully wont need." "Flameproof underwear." "Flameproof suits." "Flameproof socks." "Flameproof gloves." "Flameproof shoes." "Flameproof helmets." "I've just pulled your helmet apart to put the um head set in." "There actually, I've taken the rubber surround off them cos they're a heap bigger than that." "They're really large." "Bloody hell, they're going to be heaps louder than the old ones." " What I did on mine." "I actually cut this back section out, put it in there." "Or maybe here cos there's foam padding on there." "Well all I did on mine is..." "It's like a big remote control." "You're just a dummy and you just go." "And I go left and the steering wheel goes left." "Right and the steering wheel goes right." "It's a very, it's a very high tech dummy though isn't it?" "Expensive dummy too" " Bloody expensive" "Ok so right 3- Yeah" " Right 3," "Left 2, Left 2." "Point straight to the flower, the red flower, pink flower, pink flower." "And then it's a right 1." "Clip the inside." "Clip the inside here, clip the inside." "You're not very good at listening to instructions." "It's about sharing an experience." "And it's an experience that we've both loved all our whole life is driving cars fast and hard and now we're at that point in life where we've got enough money to be able do it and do it properly." "And really enjoy it." "Drive something that is totally wild, you know." "It's off it's face that car, you know." "In 2005 I decided to rebuild the coupe for the last time, a total ground up restoration that would end in the ultimate version of my beast." "This time in full race specification with over 600 horse power." "One week until she starts." "Three weeks until she drives." "Very, very, very excited." "You see the car now and you just can't believe that, that is the same car." "I don't know if there's a hell of a lot of the original metal left in that car its all been replaced now." "With no expense spared and thousands of man hours put into it, it literally was a work of art." "It was finally my perfect beast." "10 years after that first race the boys and I were heading back to Targa Tasmania." "The plan was to race the car one last time in the race that started it all." "Targa is a 5 day endurance rally raced on closed down sections of public road on an island at the end of the world." "The variety of terrain, sheer distance, challenges both mental and physical." "Make it the ultimate test of car, driver and navigator." "This race is about horses for courses." "There's different cars that will kick arse." "And there's, you've got the beached whale." "The coupe." "Um it's just so wide." "It's probably one of the widest cars around." "It's just hard to get around some corners in some of the mountain stages." "Depending on how Eric is thinking, after this event." "He might say look I've built the car for this event." "I've done it." "I'm gonna take it home now and put it in the garage." "I've done the race in the coupe I've wanted to do but now he might turn around and say Na I'm going to do something else." "So you're all sorted." "You're all organised for the weekend?" "I'm ready to go mate." " You're sharing a room with Temps, you know that?" "Yeah I think I did that last time too now didn't we?" " Yeah it's a similar arrangement this time" " But are we in a hotel this time, so it's just a walk" "What do you mean in a hotel this time?" "We weren't in tents last time." "Yeah I know but that bloody apartment living wasn't very charming." "You know the Hilton was charming." " You like room service mate." "Na I just like being able to get the elevator down to the piss." "So my focus is to just, keep an eye on the van, just follow the van?" "Your focus in Tasmania, is to do what you normally do and to shit stir however many people you have to shit stir." "Well I should be alright then." "That's not too far out of my resume." "Just your regular drill." " That's my standard operandi" "Here's to you mudguts!" " Yep, good on ya." "Eric's field of friends are all diverse." "And none of us are connected to anyone except through Eric." "So Eric's like here, and then you've got Tony there and you've got Temps there and Jacko there." "It's an amazing thing because no one talks to anyone except when Eric brings us all together." "His like secretary general of the United Nations mate, you know I'm calling a general meeting mate you's all better turn up." "So we all bring our arses down there and we say what's going on?" "Eric Bana are you looking forward to your week?" " Oh mate I can't wait." "Last at this event back in 96 with a mate of mine and made the um embarrassing comment at the time that I will return." "I'll be back here every year for the rest of my life." "And that was eleven years ago." "So um I've finally, finally made it back." "And I literally haven't forgotten the event since then and had been dreaming about coming back and doing it um and the moons aligned so um here I am." "And it's all about just getting out there and sharing the car and hoping that people enjoy us um having as much fun as we will be having." "Welcome to Eric." "Eric's going to be driving a Ford Falcon XB GT coupe." "I think most people would have seen it in the paper or in the flesh." "I just keep scratching myself." "I just can't believe that I'm down here in the car and that the car's finished." "Got my old mate Tony navigating for me so just can't wait." "There's a camera car at 4." "Yeah I've got that written thank you" " Be really careful of the oil OK guys?" "10," "5,4,3,2,1, go GO!" "Crest straight 150 Bana, no traction what so ever." "10 right 100, followed by a 9 left 150." "Got it" " No traction, this is terrible isn't it" "After years of anticipation and literally dreaming of this moment it was finally here." "But I had forgotten one thing." "A new race car never feels good straight out of the work shop." "That was awful." "It was just, felt so bad, I can't believe how bad that felt." "I'm so spoilt driving race cars on race tracks now." "And the first four or five corners I thought I'm going to bring down the front suspension" "I'm going to go straight into a gutter here." "But ah you know," "I probably under estimated how slippery the green tyres would be." "Any danger signs other than the grip?" "No I felt it straight away, I felt it like first couple of corners." "I just drove around it." "I knew it wasn't going to be quick turning in or anything like that." "Cos it does actually turn in really well, but it wasn't going to do it today." "Wasn't going to grab" " Well like I said it's only about getting the right priority today." "Next five days is what counts." "Yeah and we gotta try and sort out a few little niggly things and..." "Well the ice has been broken mate." "Let the ship roll." "Has your ice been broken Jack?" " It's been broken a long time ago mate." "I heard it's ah on the cards once already down the tour of Tas." "I'll leave those two to it" "What do you reckon?" " Can't confirm or deny mate" "So you've broken some girls hearts already?" " You know me, I'm here to hold up the other end of the game mate." "Eric's racing cars, and I'm racing the clock." "You want a photo too." "Alright hang on." "Alright, can I borrow your pen mate?" "What would you expect?" "Nothing less would you, hey?" "Holy shit!" "I think classic is great because you don't have to stress yourself to get your Targa time." "And if you come here to just get your plate, which is basically what drives me." "You can do it in a classic car and have fun." "I honestly think it's only as dangerous as you make it." "There's no doubt about I mentioned before, Red Mist." "It descends." "What brings it on quicker than anything is the sight of the tail lights in the distance" "You know you're halfway into the stage and all of a sudden you just catch a glimpse of some tail lights in the distance." "Oh my god father I sure the navigator wants to open the door and get out at that stage." "But that spurs you on." "But you only go, or I only go as quick as I think I'm comfortable at." "I don't want to toss this car into the trees." "More importantly I don't want to toss my navigator into the trees." "There are 2 types of vehicle in Targa, modern or classic." "You either pick a late model car with every conceivable driver aid and modern convenience or something older with shall we say more character." "Eric's car is it?" " 8Might bring back a few memories mate" "Yep, yep, 77." "I had my own one at Bathurst" " Was that the Melfords car?" "That is just beautiful" " Have you seen the boot mate?" "Beautiful." "Who did all the work Eric?" " A guy in Melbourne by the name of Steve Young." "That is just beautiful." "Well for me I would rather compete and win a Targa Tassie than Bathurst." "But having said that I've been to Bathurst a lot of times and I've had some wins there." "So for a young guy coming into motor sport he'd probably much like to go and win at Bathurst." "But Targa is a lot more satisfying event because it's over five days." "Forty five individual races and you're not racing against anyone, you're racing against yourself and the clock." "It really is a huge challenge when you look at tarmac rallying as Jim just touched on." "I mean you don't know what the conditions could be like from the start of a stage to the end of a stage." "You're not sure what you're going to encounter." "And the fact that you've got to work as a team." "That's very important." "On the circuit you've just got the driver and a car that's been prepared." "Where as when we get out there on the roads it's very much a team effort." "8 left 100." "Am I too loud in your ear mate?" " No, perfect" "Ok followed by a bridge 9 right 100" "He used to navigate by just getting me to the start of the stage." "And then just basically, sit like this and um" "He is so, so full of shit." "It's true we never used to run with pace notes and we did quite well." "And the first year we ran with pace notes, we crash." "I'm not blaming him." "It's definitely both our fault." "If not my fault." "But the point I'm making is." "You can still go really quick without pace notes and in fact it's kind of enjoyable cos what I do is I say to Tony is pretend your the driver and look through the road and tell me where you think it's going." "You know." "So you used to enjoy that?" " No 8 right and a crest." "Then an 8 left." "Looked like an 8 left." "No." "This could be the 8 left?" " No clue mate." "I have no clue." "Off the note" " I'm really sorry about this" "Just call what you see bud and stay off the note." " Ok." "you got a right 9 by the looks." "Straight on there's a crest." "Can't see beyond the crest." "Looks like a right 8." "I honestly think that tarmac rallying guys are dead set nuts." "Um we complain about a wall being too close or a sand trap not being deep enough." "The level of safety we've got is I don't think it could get much better." "And then you get these rally guys that they do the same speeds as what we're doing on the race track." "And there is 4 foot round gum trees 2 feet off the road, all the way." "It's just insane." "I've never actually done a tarmac rally at full speed like the guys do these days but it's probably the most dangerous form of motor sport there is." "Just about every year since 1906 theres been a race held in these mountains." "And ever since the race has been called the Targa Florio." "Day of the race the roads are closed but for most of the other practice time on the Targa there open to the general public and this causes all sorts of excitement." "this is the section where I usually have my practice accidents." "Two years ago in a Porsche I hit an Alfa Romeo service car and then last year ha last year I hit a local." "The Targa Florio really is a relic from the past." "But unfortunately I think it's days are numbered." "Racing in Targa is as close as it gets to the grass roots of motor racing." "Its like going back in time and that's part of the attraction." "Safety is the driver and navigators responsibility, make a small mistake and you could pay dearly." "The terrain is ever changing one minute your on a flat out section through fast following corners with trees hugging the road and the next your snaking your way through a small country town littered with hay bails." "It's one of the last remaining races of its type anywhere in the world." "The things that worry me is just slipping off the road and hitting a tree because there is a lot of them out there." "In this game you know there is sort of an element of your number comes up you know it is a game that at some point you're going to fall off the road thats just going to happen whatever the cause" "so just hope it happens in a nice soft place." "You do measure this up from time to time and the only thing that keeps you balanced is probably a little bit of belief sometimes, it's false belief that you're, you may be better than you really are but confidence is probably the key because" "as soon as you second guess yourself you know in a heartbeat you're 300 meters off the road and in an embankment." "Fortunately for us there wasn't anything solid waiting at the edge of the road it was just partial land, it was a long way below the road so it was a bit evil knieval out into the paddock back first couple of end to ends five barrel rolls and" "150 meters later we came to a grinding halt in the paddock with doors ripped off engines hanging out wheels off and basically the only part of the car that was left was the part we were sitting in." "I ended up being in hospital for quite a long time and off work for 6 months so," "What happened?" " Snapped my neck clean in half with a, broken 4th vertebrae and had fractures in 3,5,6 and 7." "Well I still race on the track I decided that I wasn't right from the moment" "I was in hospital I decided that I wasn't going to stop living my life but it did put a lot of things in perspective and gave me greater appreciation for silly things in life like walking along the beach" "and playing golf and all those things that you do take for granted" "Family?" " Yeah family the whole thing." "He's really responsible and I do know he really thinks long and hard and carefully about the safety aspect of all of these races and I just have never felt it was my role to say what he can and can't do all I ask is that he, you know," "thinks about the kids and he really takes that responsibility seriously." "But its down to him in the end and he has to you know make that decision and he does that on his own and he puts a lot of work and his heart and soul into these races and you know he gets a lot out of them, so you gotta weigh all that up I guess." "When you have responsibilities and when you have a family, you have children for example." "It changes the risk reward ratio for what you do." "Do I have the right to put there father at risk for the thrill the exhilaration the excitement of what I'm doing." "Now as I said it doesn't mean you drop out that you become, a couch potato you know you've still got to go out and live your life and take care of yourself." "You can cheat them out of there father in other ways too, if you lose your passion, if you lose your zest for life that spark in your eye, that thrill that's there." "They don't get all of there Dad that way either." "We had a really good day yesterday, but I've got some mechanically knowledge that Bana doesn't." "Our cam shaft is screwed." "Its lost a lobe and I don't know how far its going to go" "I'm gonna have a chat to the boys about picking up another cam shaft today." "We just want to get through." "Um but I don't have high hopes for it to be honest." "Ooh the nerves are up mate the nerves are up I gotta tell ya" "Good luck mate 54321 GO!" "There a 9 right, a 9 left" "Slippery isn't it Theres a 10 right on this next crest Bana, 10 right stay on it stay on it." "Stay on it" "So troddle on out of the 6 left and keep the power up." "Go go go go GO!" "Big crest straight 400, Chicane, doesn't suit big fat cars." " Thats ridiculous" "Nicely done, get out, 10 left crest straight, you got me?" " yep got you bud" "Your ok now, get some power on, we got a 9 left then a 9 right." "Thats a 6 right then there's a 6 left with a dip, into a 9 right then an 8 left 100." "Gnarly fuckin' stage!" "7 right up the hill into an 8 left, early 5 right, a rough 3 left, 8 left Bana into a 7 right, a 6 left into a 750, crest, there's a 1 left down there" "That was brilliant I loved it How funny was that bit, where it was straight, and there was just enough room, I was like 3rd gear bwooarr it was just like haha" "Mate I was under the pump" " Yeah," "Under the pump trying to read that out quick enough" "Good caller mate." "Well done!" "That was quick I tell ya." " I had no, I was just calling so many one after another" "How are you?" " Good how are you?" " Who is it?" " Eric Bana the film star." "How are you?" " Ok turning right here bud" " Mate you're turning right" "We want to keep that little BM in sight" "Clear left," "Cordex nowhere to be seen mate?" " Nowhere to be seen." "I can't do this event and not have people want to come down and be a part of it." "You know my parents are always really involved." "Which is really odd cos they you know, they would not have let me hop in a go-cart as a kid for all the tea in China." "And here I am doing something so much worse than, and they're down here." "Same with the guys you know they love, love being a part of it." "How did it go mate?" " Good" " Yeah turning in better?" "Yeah it's much better" " Is it?" " Chalk and cheese to yesterday" " Oh that's good" "How's the traction?" " Yeah good." "I mean there's quite a bit of shit still on the road, like especially after the chicane" "They must have just put new bitumen down on that stage" "Really?" " My car has been like a campfire to me and my friends." "How important is the tradition of the camp fire?" "When I grew up there was 3 TV channels and you rode your bikes and you played under the street lights after dark," "and you know you kind of had roots." "And now we're getting impinged by so many stimuli, so much competing for our time and attention." "That it's really hard for us to focus on one thing that becomes a main stay in our lives." "I mean we're living in the laser lane, we're not living in the fast lane, we're living in the laser lane." "And there's just not a lot of room for tradition, there's not a lot of room for rituals, there's not a lot of room for bonding with objects and even people sometimes." "And I think that's tragic" "That's part of his enjoyment to have his, school friends involved in navigating and co-ordinating things and providing amusements and distraction from the pressure of the grind." "I'm really proud the way he has manged that to include everyone and all his friends." "You know cos you throw 1840 kilo's and then throw in the added g-forces of coming down a hill with acceleration and throw in a wet surface and" " It's a deadly mix." "Could get complicated." "It's gonna be so much, so much nicer tomorrow with the alternator working." "You know it's funny though, I was saying to Tone." "Every single person you speak to has a reason why there car's not good." "So we go on about, oh well it's big and it's heavy,right." "The guys in the little cars go, oh well it's got no guts." "The 2 wheel drives say we haven't got 4 wheel drive." "The 4 wheel drives say we're not, we're heavier than the 2 wheel drives." "I just want one person to put up there hand and go this car is bloody perfect for this event" " I found that bloke today." "Yeah, yeah I met the bloke who's got the perfect car mate, yeah." "That's a story mate..." "Fella I knew bought it brand new." "He used to take me for rides when I was still in high school." "And that was." "It was a fresh restoration back then, so its an older restoration now." "How ya going?" " Yeah Darryl is it?" " Darryl yes" " How ya going mate,good?" "You're Rebecca are you?" " G'day, yep" " How ya going?" " Yeah good yourself?" "Good mate." "This your baby?" " Yeah pride and joy" "What is she XB?" " XB, Yeah XB" "XB, nice mate nice, now what are you running?" "Are you running a 351 Cleveland?" " 302- 302 like FMX auto?" "manual?" "na single rail 4 speed - single rail 4 speed OK same as what Eric's car had." "You don't mind if I pop the bonnet do ya?" " Yeah Your right" " Alright, cool." "Oh you got someone in the back seat mate." "Is that the security guard?" " Yeah he lives in there" "Does he sleep in the car and make sure no one steals it?" "No?" "Alright pins up?" " Yeah pins are up." "The little latch under the R" "So its a 25 year love affair" "It is" " And the love's still strong?" "It is yeah and that was before the crows feet" "Before the crows feet, and this car looks like its lived" "It has it's lived it's life" " It's been there and its done everything" "And it looks like its been loved." "You know And I can definitely tell from talking to you that this car is in your heart mate" "It's in me heart" " And it's a family affair you guys just" "Well it was off the road for a while and" " You back him up finally got it back on the road after like what 10 years or something it had been sitting around for a bit." "And he had tears in his eyes man." "He was crying he was like so happy." "Garden Gnome" " You're totally supportive of the car?" "Oh yeah we've got Ford crap everywhere." " It's a family member, it's a first child?" "Yeah, yeah." " For most people jobs truly are a means to an end." "It's like if I do this job, this will enable me to do the things that I really want to do to have my hobbies to play my sports to pursue the interests that I have." "And I think it's very very important for somebody to be well rounded." "For somebody to be balanced." "You've got to have a passion you've got to have a hobby you've got to have something that your not in harness, you're not working, it's just a labour of love." "And if you don't have that, you'll be missing a lot of the excitement, you'll miss a lot of the payoff that comes from doing what you want to do instead of just what you need to do." "Have a good day" " Thanks mate." "Alright buddy good luck hey Let's have a good one mate." "Ok counting you down." "54321 Go!" "There's a 2 right here Bana a 2 right" " Gotcha" "a long 7 left 7 left 100 then a 10 left 200," "there's a 10 left 200, that's a 7 right over there with a dip." "Then a hug the 5 left here, then it's a 7 left then it opens up here Bana." "Hug 7 right with no cut." "Short 9 left get on the power." "9 left into an 8 left." "Then a crest straight short 8 left." "end to end 200, 200." "That's a kink right 5 left Bana, and it's got a caution." "After that 5 left it's a turn 4 right OK." "Turn 4 right here." "Burned some rubber there." "Now you're going right under this crest at 150 stay on it." "9 left on that crest there, that's 300." "Then it's a crest straight 100 stay on it all the way!" "150 metres you're turning 2 right." "OK." "A long 6 left." "Hark a long 7 right and then a crest 10 right." "Narrow, caution there's a car down here, speeding." "With a 5 right, there he is off the edge." "8 left, there's another one, into a tree left." "Failed to power." " Ok 10 left 150, stay on it, stay on it, stay on it!" "That was a fun section that was good I really enjoyed that, that just flowed so beautifully." "That was quite nice" " Yeah it's a good little warm up for Cethana I think" "Trap for young players that stage isn't it?" " I had more pleasure today." "I had a real moment at Cygnet I was just like this is awesome you know starting to feel you know some of the joy that I was hoping to get out of this event." "It came today and then at the end of Cygnet it was weird" "I turned to Tony and I said you know well done that was great you know it was a really really good stage for us and then when we left and we were driving off I felt really emotional it was like Oh cool we're like, what have we got?" "2 stages left in the day and we're gonna get, we're getting through day 3 and we're gonna be on the road beginning of day 4 and you know there's a lot of cars getting worked on last night that" "weren't here on the road this morning, and I just really starting to feel that sense of achievement by getting the car through each day you know day 4 I thinks going to be the best day." "And then I'm about to do the top bolt on the left hand side." "We have a brand new fuel system into the car this year and 1 of the fuel pumps decided it wanted to have a sort of a 15, 20 minute break." "That was enough to say goodbye to our plate so really our competitive side finished yesterday, we're just going to the finish line and we want to have some fun and set some good times and just enjoy ourselves." "Most of this noise is being created by the Classic guys that's for sure." "But we choose to drive Classic cos I think this is what makes it good fun." "There was a guy called Charles Babbage who invented the computer back in the 18th century, who talked about the unerring certainty of machinery." "Ok now the problem you have is that when you have the unerring certainty of machinery it is a machine." "When something has foil ables and wont handle properly that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes and that's how you can build a relationship with a car that other people wont get." "I would so hate to see someone drive this car that didn't have respect for it you know it's And today it just felt like a dead set quarter horse that was just ready to just kick you off if you weren't onto your game" "you know it was just ready to chew you up and spit you out." "I feel like I'm breaking in a horse you know that's how I feel and I feel like everyday I feel like the horse is, both horses are learning you know, me and the car." "What we've been doing is being really patient getting into a rhythm I'm being really careful getting the tires up to speed and the up to temperature and the brakes up to temperature." "Just trying to work our way into the stage you know rather than cos I feel like if you if you rush it early and you have a bit of a moment early it really sort of affects your confidence for the rest of the stage." "We've set a sort of pace now that we know we can maintain and we cropped a heap of places yesterday so I think if we just do exactly like we did yesterday and don't try and be heroes just" "and finish we'll keep jumping places every day and we will finish somewhere thats half way decent so yeah no hero stuff today for sure." "Todays the day with those couple of really gnarly stages" "And it's a short day so we just want to really enjoy ourselves alright" "That's it enjoy it" " We just want to finish every day thats all" "We just want you both back safe and sound" "If he needs us he knows we're there and as long as I see him driving off and coming home safely that's that's all I really you know worry about and care about" "I haven't been nervous or anxious the last 3 days but today" "I'm starting to feel because when he drove off just before" "I just then thought Oh my God you know how am I going to get through today or tomorrow before you know we see him come back." "54321 Go!" "Crest straight 150 Bana." "See that then a little crest 150 with a dip," "very long but 9 right at the end it tightens Bana, then you have another 500 metres mate then a chicane," "Oooh nearly off the edge there." "G'day thanks for calling leave a message." "I'll get back to you." "Just bear in my mind it could take me a while racing down in Tassie this week so if it's urgent leave a message on the office number and I'll speak to you soon, cheers, thanks, bye." "Mum just had a phone call saying that your car smashed into something." "I just wanted to speak to you." "I hope your OK." "This is a 10 left at 150 copy?" "Yep - 10 right over the crest 100" "Yep, car coming through better let him through." " Yep, yep." "Ah I don't know where I am" "Dip" " Mate back off" "I want to know um, is did you cry?" "And what did it smash into and how did the accident happen?" "And why I am also so upset too cos um I really wanted to have a drive with you around the race track one day." "OK downhill There's a car off near here somewhere." "3 right This goes into a 6 left," "then, and crest, caution, caution crest long 2 right," "6 left, caution crest long 2 right, 100." "Car off here" "Tony I am so fuckin' sorry." "Hows it going?" " Oh I'll be right, I'll feel a bit better when I learn a bit more." "Do you guys know, know with whats happened?" " No" " Down in the Targa?" " Not a lot No" "That's a good, good sign because we saw the ambulance coming in with the lights flashing and we were hoping our friend wasn't here so," "well we are hoping he was here but, in a good way." "Can you get any CB contact with it, to give us any reports?" "No, no, no" " No the services aren't connected?" " No, we don't" "Like the fire brigade and ambulances you're not connected?" "No" " No, alright well thanks for ya help" " That's Ok" "You come to a place where your friend's supposed to be brought to and the people don't, aren't even expecting him." "That's what's wrong!" "You know a bit of communication wouldn't hurt." "Lose the attitude" " No" " Don't get, get Don't raise your voice at me" "I'm disappointed that these guys don't know what's going on" "Don't go off at" " And you're standing in some sort of amateur comedy night" "You going off, you going off, before, you know all the facts." "You going off before you know all the facts" " It's not a comedy routine here Temps," "That's what, stop putting words in my mouth." "You going off before you know all the facts about these guys and it's not there fault" "I know the facts, they don't know nothing, Ok" "Just don't, don't talk to me." "That's it, all done" " I knew it was good hey" " Yeah that's right mate" "Hollywood star Eric Bana has escaped serious injury after crashing his car in the Targa Tasmania." "The actor crashed his 1974 Ford XB coupe into a bank near Devonport in the states north." "Now he and co-driver Tony Rammuno are reportedly OK and didn't need medical treatment." "G'day thanks for calling leave a message and I'll get back to you." "Cheers, thanks, bye." " G'day Bana it's Tone." "How ya going mate?" "My neck's a bit sore I don't know how your's is doing." "Been down the workshop this morning had a quick look at the car, didn't go right through it." "It looks pretty screwed" "I don't know what we're going to do with it." "Anyway wait till you get back or give me a call we'll go through it together and see what we can do." "See ya mate." "I would so love to be wearing my driving shoes tonight." "Half the red carpet would probably be like completely blown away by the fashion choice and I could start a whole new trend." "They would think it was awesome." "Oh my god I love your shoes they're amazing, they're flame-proof, Oh wow that's awesome!" "The advantage is that if you then tie one on, you have a big night, you know, and some one does catch fire, it's like you know just kick them out of the venue." "Literally like You know just kick them." "This is for a film I did 2 years ago, it's just coming out now." "It's always a, challenge to remember every single detail about it." "So um, yeah it's always interesting." "Try and remember all the funny hilarious anecdotes crazy stories that did and didn't happen." "Little bit of bravery gravy." "Always makes the red carpet a little bit shorter." "So it should be good." "Should be good fun." "Can't help but think about my, my ah, car though." "Hi, How ya doing?" "How are ya?" "How ya doing?" "Yeah, it's really intense." "She's one of those people that you never think you're going to be in a movie with, same with Duvall, I mean like quite literally my favourite actor on the planet and to get a chance to work with both of them was just ridiculous." "And like great people and I suck," "Do you, well then we should play." "My first trip to Vegas I do," "I do I was like 22 years old and I do a little bit of gambling, a little bit of blackjack so," "I must say you have great hair" " Great hair, why thank you" "Does anyone say that to you or am I the only one?" "It's pretty aggressive hair actually, it's the fastest growing hair in the world, actually by the end of the screening I'm gonna have to get it cut." "Alright my first guest today, critically acclaimed actor from Australia, and a very funny guy, Eric Bana, Eric come on out here." "Good to see you again," " Yeah thanks mate." "I always like when you come, cos like out here we have to talk about movies and stuff, but back there we can talk about cars, cos you're a big car guy." "I know and you like to race too." "Yeah that's my hobby, that's what I do when I'm not working." "I usually try and keep quiet about it, but I crashed out last week." "You did crash out like that." "That's the thing when a celebrity crashes everybody finds out about it and cackles with glee." "Yes it's the downside of being a bit famous" " Were you by yourself when you crashed?" "We crashed in the middle of the bush." "We're like in the middle of nowhere." "And these two guys in race suits appear like Martians." "And go, are you guys alright, you guys hit that tree pretty hard, everything alright?" "I go where the hell did you guys come from?" "He goes, that's our car down the bottom of the hill." "Is your heart pumping as hard as mine?" " Actually it's not I'm just" "I just can't believe I'm just not scratched, we went in there pretty fuckin' hard." "Hey mate it's motor racing!" "Yeah it is, but, not the sort of motor racing I had in mind." "At the end of the day you line up on the start line." "We're both two blokes who, you know grew up pushing equipment, pushing cars, driving on the limit." "Yeah I'm gonna have what I think is a level of reserve, but we're still going to be going hard." "We're in a car with over 500 HP." "And at the end of the day, even if you drive that car slow, it's still bloody fast!" "That's, that is impressive that." " Thank you." " It's a V8 obviously?" "600HP 408 Windsor, yeah 600Hp, so broadly the same as you would get in a Ferrari Enzo?" "There abouts." "Give or take 10." "So 600HP and leaf springs?" "Yeah well the category I race in you have to keep the original suspension, pick up points and geometry." "Are you mad?" " I didn't think I was, but then this happened." "Well now you see I could have predicted that." "You look at this and you think yeah I've, it's a muscle car and I've driven a lot of muscle cars." "Callaway Corvettes Chargers Challengers Mustang 390 GT's and they all look fantastic but all muscle cars are crap!" "They just are." "They don't handle properly." "They look good they sound good but you know." "You go past RAF bases in Australia do they have like planes on plinth's outside?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah" " Some cars I've decided are born to be put on a plinth." "You can see the quarter panels gone." "The steering's completely ripped out of and broken out of the car." "The diff watt's linkages have been completely ripped out of the car." "Rear chassis rails are completely gone." "It's damaged all the boot area so the whole chassis had a constantina effect through the whole roll cage." "So it's basically, virtually all the 3000 hours that we've done it's start again." "Um and unfortunately what's happened is because the cars been so customised." "Although it pretty much looks like a standard," "XB every components basically been customised." "So it's a huge job again." "I feel worse today then I did, when I crashed the car yeah." "I basically feel like today I found out that I did kill the car." "Confirmed." "You know, and in a way I would have been better to have felt like that happened on the day, as opposed to walking away from the car thinking, front right hand corners done and a bit of the rear ends been done." "That's what I've been thinking the last month." "I, I really didn't seriously think that I could've actually killed it." "I would so much rather have a broken arm to be completely honest." "I would so much rather be on crutches right now, for a couple of months, or a few months, it would feel so much better then, then this scenario." "One part of your situation is, you had somebody build this car?" "No only this time." "The last 3 times me and my buddies did it." "I know but the last 3 times you didn't crack it up." "Yeah" " Somebody else built this car." "Like you, you're afraid to tell the guy who built it what happened." "Correct?" " Yeah I was" " Because it's his car, he built it." "If you put all the blood sweat and tears into this car you wouldn't have hit the tree" "You think so?" " Yeah it's like a rental car, you take it out and beat the hell out of it." "What do you care?" "You know?" "Safe to say that if you were ever going to consider doing an event like that again, you would just have to do it in a car that you have absolutely no respect for, other than as a performance vehicle." "But no emotional attachment." "You'd be an absolute fool to do that sort of event in a car that you cared about." "Mate I don't know how he put that thing back together the first time." "He had a 15 dollar socket set and it was one of those 3/8 driver, it wasn't even a ½ inch drive set." "And he put the whole car together with that." "A pair of pliers, a shifter and a flat screwdriver." "It's an amazing feat when you think about it now." "But he just, He loved it." "He was so in love with that car." "And even through some of his hardships that he had." "Through working and not working and trying to get work." "He always managed to keep that car and not sell it." "And it's been a really good thing that he's hung onto it." "Not many people have had a car from their childhood for that many years." "The feeling I'm getting from this car is that, the love is in the car." "It's got the good spirits happening." " Yeah" "And I'm actually looking to do something in that direction." " Right" "And It's about finding a car that's not just the coupe but it's a coupe that's been loved" "Right-o" " You know." "And it's got a bit of feeling behind it" "Yeah" " And I'm in a position that if I could find a car that someone would give me." "I would do what I. I would probably share the project with them" "Yeah sure" " And say look." "You give me the car." "Like not give it to me." "Sell me the car and I'll build it the way you envision it." "Because I'm looking for a partnership." " Right" "And that's something that really, really interests me in this car now, because, with talking to you now Darryl I can see that, it's in your eyes mate, this car is just part of your blood." "But it's almost like having a child that you got to send away to private school to get a good education." "That's very true, yeah, that's true" " You know, you have to consider the decision." "Now I can't take your memories away from ya" "No, they there forever" " No one can." "But what I can do, is make this car into something you wish it was." "Oh yeah if I seen it going down the road I'd be wishin' that it was mine" "You're assuming that I don't want to make you a good offer" "Moneys one thing," " Alright" " For me to go and find another one to buy is another" "Right" " And I do know of more but none are for sale either" "Yeah and" " It's like his heart" " Money can't buy it" "If he sold that, then what would he get out of bed of the morning for." "And he gets out of bed and sees his car there even though the state it's in." "It's like, it's a part of him." "It's still there" "The states not the issue, it's about the dream." "Put a number." "Let me know what this car's worth to you for piece of mind?" "Sorry I can't answer that question" "You can't even answer it" " It's really lovely meeting ya." "Yeah" " And I'm happy to meet someone with a similar love and interest as as me" "So the car's priceless?" " I guess it is." "Yeah Sorry about that" " He'd cry too much, he'd be so depressed." "I got respect for ya brother" " I'd end up in deep depression and on drugs for the rest of me life." "I couldn't" " We can't have that happening" "Like I said." "I met it as a 15 year old and I loved them things before then" " Mate that's the end of the deal." "Love is love mate." "Love is never wrong." "My father also has a car." "He has a 67 Thunderbird that he's owned my whole life." "Since I was a young kid." "And he really doesn't use it." "In fact the last time he drove it was on my wedding day 10 years ago." "It sits in the garage with a cover on it, getting cobwebs, leaves the whole deal." "He doesn't even look at the car and he doesn't drive it." "Why would someone wanna maintain a possession like that." "When they don't actually get any direct enjoyment from it?" "Well you're assuming he doesn't get any direct enjoyment from it and it's wrong." "It's a spiritual enjoyment." "He knows it's there." "It's like an anchor It's like a rock." "He knows it's there and the fact that he doesn't go sit in it, or drive it everyday is not important." "What's important is he's hung on to this and it probably has a important spiritual meaning for him." "You don't have to drive it everyday for it to be important to you." "You don't have to drive it ever again." "I mean as long as he knows it's there." "That's a part of him." "That's a piece of him and it's important to him." "The future of the T-Bird?" "There will be no more future very soon that's being sold." "I think it, you know, another young guy like Eric was that's a fanatic with cars." "I think they'd get a lot more enjoyment out of it." "All they'd have to do is rebuild the engine and make it work, make it drive." "Which it hasn't done for years." "There's a cover over it for the last 10 years." "What's, what's the joy of taking up all that space in the garage when we could put our other car in it." "That's drivable." "You know, yeah anythings repairable technically speaking." "Technically speaking you could create out of sand a whole other new car." "It doesn't mean that you go and do it though does it, you know," "I think he's confused about where to, where to take the car from here." "And it's about where he is in his life too, too." "I mean how much more focus can you put on it at this stage of your life with so many other things happening" "I think he's a bit deflated at the moment." "I think he doesn't want to think about it." "Just wants to leave it in a corner put a cover over it." "Don't walk around thinking oh me baby's hurt, that's the way it is." "If you really love it, you'll fix it." "If I was to not fix this car." "And it was no longer a part of my life." "Do you think that would be something that I would actually have some kind of reaction to?" "You would have a strong sense of betrayal if you put these parts in a box, slid em under a work bench in a deserted garage and forgot them." "And let me tell you why." "You must honour the continuity in your life." "This is a car that was everything in the world to you when you got it." "It was first for you." "It gave you that independence." "It gave you that mobility." "It gave you that identity." "It came through that maze of life with you." "I think it's the, the reality that it's as big a job to fix this as it was to restore it." "You know." "So I know it's probably, a good, a good you know at least 12 months of you know hard labour in fixing the car." "#12 MONTHS LATER#" "My first guest, critically acclaimed actor from Australia, very funny guy, Eric Bana, ladies and gentleman." "Now did you fix your crashed car yet?" "We talk about it, you came to my garage, we talked about," "Yeah, Have you worked on your, what's it been like 2 years since we had this thing?" "It's been a year, it's been a year." " So what have you got done?" " Nothing yet." "You know, stop your stupid movie making and fix your damn car will you?" "I don't have, I don't have a garage full of men just waiting for me to crash the car, to then fix it Jay." "Oooh well let's get bitchy when we lose, huh, yeah, oh man." "Hey c'mon it's a car right?" "No." "It is a symbol of your history." "It is a thread of continuity from whence you came to where you are." "That's important." "That You don't want to forget who you are." "You know you're not who you are today in this moment." "That's a freeze frame." "You know if you took a snap shot and you would freeze frame right now, that's who you are today." "You know you're a movie star, you're in the industry, you do all this." "I mean that's who you are today." "But if you look at the whole film, you don't just freeze frame, you look at the whole film that's just who you are today." "You've been this, less than you were that." "So that's still the majority of who you are." "This is something you're doing." "That car is an important part of your history, an important part of your identity." "It's contributed to who you are as you sit here today asking me these questions." "You can't bail on that!" "If your wife gets a cold do you turn around and say well you know we've been married, we've been married 12 years now." "You're not working as well with the runny nose there as as you use to." "I think if you don't mind, I'm probably just going to trade you in for something I don't know much younger so see you goodbye." "Would you do that?" " No" " That has soul that thing." "I think of that car now sitting wherever it is sitting in some garage in Australia thinking well he drove me into a tree." "So why do I have to sit here with a smashed up nose and he's not coming back and he's wandering around the world asking people like" "Dr Phil and Jeremy Clarkson whether or not I should be back." "Of course I think he should fix me." "Of course you should." "Got some work to do here boys - yeah" " Grab a rag Temps" " Yeah thanks mate" "5/8" " Brilliant" " Been a while since I've been in this" "Good to see you doing something useful Temps" " You guys are working hard" "Do you want a screwdriver?" "Do you wanna just crank it over and just see if there's any spark" "Jack can you do it?" " Where's the tool box?" "I need that screwdriver 5 inch speckled screwdriver" "You know when my Dad bought this it was green, you remember." "It was two tone green." "Mate he's had it for 30 years now." "He's not gonna believe it when this thing actually starts." "The T-Bird was the start." "When the T-Bird came along that was even more of a tinkering." "Ivan use to take them for drives." "Around the block or down the freeway or whatever so." "You know Father like son, son like father." "Starting to get wintry all of a sudden." " Yes" " Who's Hawthorn playing this week?" "Oh Collingwood on Saturday at the G" " Are you gonna go?" "Thinking but it's gonna be a good test for Hawthorn." "Not sure where we're at really." "There's the old girl." "What do you reckon I give it a try?" " And you might have more luck this time" "I hope so, it's been a while." "That's it." "That's." "Beautiful sound." "Thank you" " No fire extinguisher" "We'll book the fire brigade to follow us instead" "Might need it" " Yes" "#THE END#" "Turn left 200." "Turn left 200." "It's like, I'm navigating at Nascar." "Straight then turn left, then straight turn left" "I could tell you from a professional stand point." "Whatever it costs to fix that car is pretty damn cheap therapy." "But my wife is very understanding and she knows when you come home wreaking of transmission fluid." "Its bad but it's not like hookers and crack." "You're a 911 fan aren't you?" " I do like 911's but I do prefer XB GT coupes" "That, but that says it all you see" " Are you familiar with the XB GT?" "I am aware of what it looks like and what it looks like is a Hillman Avenger." "In my mind it's a Hillman Avenger or" " It's a Hillman Avenge" "You know I think they have a lot of them in New Zealand." "Hillman Avengers." "In fact I think they call that it a modern car over there" "Then straight, turn left, straight 100, then turn" "LEFT!" "Straight then turn left." "Toughest crowd I ever had, was Albury on the border of Victoria and New South Wales." "It was my first real death." "Like my mum was devastated because that was her home town." "She goes, Were they mean to you?" "Were they mean to you in Albury darling?" "I said, Yeah, they told me to get off." "What do you mean they told you to get off, how did they say it?" "Get off, get off, enough, Get off!" "Something like that." "Then turn left" "Fuckin' pissing down." " 9 right" "I'm in a left bud - 9 left, 9 left on crescent" "Where am I going here?" " Ah fuck, turn, na straight on" "Then turn left..."