Collecting Addicts Episode 59: Steelies Are Better Than Alloys, Sleeping in Cars, & Guenther Steiner’s Stardom

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Should failure be celebrated in Formula 1? This week, Manish and the Addicts share their thoughts on Guenther Steiner’s rise to fame, despite Haas’ repeat appearances at the bottom of the Constructors’ Championship leaderboard.

They’ll also be discussing the ups and downs (mostly downs) of sleeping in cars, and covering the all-important topic of steel wheels – when are they fit for purpose, and when are they just being offered to cash in on that poverty-spec charm?

All of these topics and more, answered on episode 59 of the Collecting Addicts podcast!

(00:00) Intro

(00:57) Mechanical aid fitted to a car

(13:49) Steel wheels are better than alloys

(22:39) This week in cars

(44:36) Sleeping in cars

(55:39) Guenther Steiner is the Eddie the Eagle of F1

(1:08:50) Two car garage

(1:22:26) Driving Tunes

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0:00.0	There's nothing better looking than a 9-11 short wheel base on steelies.
0:06.0	They had a particular steel wheel that went round the brake caliper and it was a really, really interesting shape and it looked better than the optional alloy wheel.
0:15.0	Everyone wants a rocket, so they're about 250,000 quid now if you can get one. Hello and welcome to the Collecting Alex Podcast episode 59.
0:28.8	Hello and welcome to the Collecting Addix podcast episode, like Garrage 59 of whom I used to race and had a good
0:36.1	outing at Alton Park in the first round of British GT. Well done Andy and the team.
0:42.2	Starting off this week, what mechanical aid would you fit to a car and why?
0:51.7	I think that race car intro might have some bearing on what these people say.
0:57.1	So Edward Lubbock goes first because his, this was his suggestion and he put a really, really good suggestion in the question itself, I think.
1:07.0	Off you go.
1:08.0	Was this my suggestion? I think it was. Well, it came through from a literacy.
1:11.0	Well, I don't think it was because I've misread the question and my answer was an iPhone.
1:20.0	Right.
1:23.0	Well, whilst everyone composes himself, I will pass on to Neil Clifford,
1:27.8	whose idea it might have been.
1:29.6	Help me hear Neil Clifford.
1:31.1	Yes, it was either myself or Mr Cooper
1:33.8	circulation of the long lists. Yeah. I have a secret love of
1:41.1	cruise control. In any car that's got cruise control I use it. We probably should do a whole
1:48.8	podcast on cruise control and the benefits of cruise control.
1:52.0	But yeah and at particular. and the benefits of cruise control. Etiket.
1:53.0	But, yeah, and particularly the cruise control in the modern cars where you, you know, you get the whole speed adjustment thing and the laser beam and all that.
2:01.0	I love that. But I would fit cruise control to any old
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