Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason joins hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty on the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round to debate his profession, automobile assortment and nonetheless writing music in his 80s.
Mason is finest recognized for being a part of iconic British band Pink Floyd, serving to to put in writing hit singles equivalent to One other Brick within the Wall, Cash and Want You Had been Right here together with the notorious album The Darkish Aspect of the Moon.
The 80-year-old sat down with Plato and Vitty to debate the epic vehicles he has pushed over time and what’s in his present assortment.
Nick Mason on proudly owning a duplicate of the primary motorcar
Throughout a wide-ranging chat, Mason detailed the gorgeous vehicles he has purchased, together with a duplicate of the world’s first ever motorcar.
“Funnily sufficient the newest automobile is perhaps probably the most unlikely as a result of it’s a duplicate,” Mason defined.
“The unique automobile now not exists, of a 1895 Benz, which is mainly seen as the primary motor automobile ever.
“Some years in the past a man known as John Bentley really made 12 of those. The thought was for them to go to a few museums, in all probability the Mercedes-Benz museum specifically, who needed this reproduction, however whereas he was doing it he thought, I’ll make a bunch of those.
“They’re probably the most wonderful vehicles as a result of they do work. Sadly although they aren’t fully highway authorized.
“What it seems like is a Victorian pram. The unique has now gone, however I feel it was Mercedes themselves who commissioned the making of this reproduction.
“I haven’t pushed it but, I’ve to be trustworthy, however I’m instructed it’s simply as horrifying as any tremendous automobile.”
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