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The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Collecting Addicts Episode 39: Headrests were The Peak of Luxury, Winter Tyres & More!

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

Leisure, Comedy, Motoring, Classiccars, Chrisharris, Collectingcars, Cars, Automotive

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In 2023, if you're in a specific age group (tickling the underbelly of 50 years old), you may recall the one true automotive status symbol of your childhood: rear head restraints! This topic and many others on episode 39 of Collecting Addicts!

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(00:00) Intro
(00:49) Headrests
(21:55) Winter Tyres
(36:40) This Week With Cars
(47:54) Electric Car Values
(58:54) Two Car Garage

Transcript

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0:00.0

88 or something. It was a new car that was vastly expensive. I knew that it was twice the money of an hour or whatever it was.

0:12.0

And there were these complete range of BMWs

0:17.3

all in sort of Schwartz, gray or black.

0:20.2

But if you want real value, the kind of value that you boast about to your mate down the pub

0:25.5

It's electric cars they just they just seem so cheap Okay, hello, hello, welcome to episode 39 of the Collecting Addix podcast. We're going to get straight into this an important issue

0:46.2

headrests they used to matter so much I'm not sure they matter so much now but everyone that

0:51.7

listens to this wanted their dad to have the car with rear headrest.

0:56.0

Let's face it, it made all the difference. Chris Cooper, tell me why.

1:00.5

Well, not just rear headrests. I couldn't remember and we who remembers watching the Sweeney. Oh yes thinking

1:07.9

Last week dad's all right because the Sweeney don't have headrest in their cars either

1:13.0

And because the swiney don't have headrest in their cars either. You know, Chris, do they not?

1:16.0

I noticed that.

1:18.0

I think they probably, part of it was probably they removed the front headrests for cinematic purposes. But they had those Granadas, the Mark

1:27.4

One Granada GXL. Even the GXL didn't have front hand rest.

1:33.0

And I remember with that sort of very small boy,

1:36.0

why didn't I have a slightly tingly sensation in my trousers today?

1:40.0

I've never helped that sensation before.

1:42.0

When dad brought home his first car with front head

1:46.7

restraint and they were restraints not headrest they were a safety device In the days when people on the television spoke in that

1:55.2

chumly Warner accent from the Fast Show and generally had the wit and intelligence of George from

2:00.9

Blackadder, we had to explain to people that cars were actually quite dangerous and when they stopped suddenly and you went

2:07.1

woof or were hit up to the chuff and your head went, woof, then head restraint was very...

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