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The AutoAlex Podcast

S2 Ep28: My VW Camper Van Project Is FINISHED! (And We've Been On A Spending Spree...)

The AutoAlex Podcast

The AutoAlex Podcast

Automotive, Society & Culture, Comedy, Leisure

4.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0

It was a bit of a gamble, though, wasn't it?

0:01.8

Because, like, realistically, we're looking at some of these. We didn't even know if they run. We didn't know the state underneath. We didn't have long at all to decide that we were buying all of them. It was such a quick decision. Like, it could have gone horrifically wrong. We bought some of them, and then we were happy with our lot. And then the next day, I got another phone call from Adam saying, would you like this and that for this price?

0:22.6

And I was like, go on then. lot and then the next day I got another phone call from Adam saying would you like this and that

0:21.4

for this price and I was like go on then hello everyone and welcome back to the auto Alex podcast

0:29.6

home of automotive financial mistakes our life in cars and your questions answered this week

0:34.7

you join Rohren McCoy. Taylor Hetherington.

0:38.2

Hello.

0:38.7

And I. So Alex have cursed a lot.

0:41.1

Alex of hernia a lot.

0:43.3

Whoa.

0:44.5

And we're going to fill your ear and your eye holes with what we've been up to.

0:48.1

We'll answer your car dilemmas and play a game of which car did it first.

0:53.3

Oh, that's new. It's new. Okay. Yeah. Mercedes. Incorrect. Oh, that's not true. Actually incorrect. Yeah, incorrect. But before we do any of that, Rory, what do we do? We say hello to everyone. Yeah, and hello to 15-year-old Otis who drove from Hertfordshire to Wrexham to pick up his first project car.

1:12.1

Sorry.

1:12.5

I'm guessing he didn't do the driving. That might be illegal if he did. Yeah, although it's in Hertfordshire, so I think there's different laws in Hertfordshire. Well, I live in Hertfordshire, so there must be. There must be, yeah. I've seen what you get up to. Ben in Manchester who spotted my old car throttle prelude parked up in exactly the same condition as when I had it.

1:30.5

Do you remember my old car throttle prelude,

1:44.8

parked up in exactly the same condition as when I had it. Do you remember my old prelude? No, I don't think I do actually. I think it was a first-gen prelude. It was kind of like light brown in colour, with patches of grey on it, where it'd been just obviously fixed and then just a bit primord. So this is the one that you started a project, never finished it and everyone in the

1:45.4

story of my life

1:46.2

kept going

1:46.7

what's up into the

1:48.1

present just obviously fixed and then just a bit private. So this is the one that you started a project, never finished it, and everyone in the comments kept going, What's up into the prelude? Yeah, well, I can tell you that 10 years later, it still looks exactly the same. So I speak to the owner. We've got Shane, who's just bought himself an L-200, Alexandre, who spotted a Mattwood sticker on a ski lift in Chamonie.

2:01.0

Oh, that's cool.

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