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 jot down hit singles akin 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 automobiles he has pushed over time and what’s in his present assortment.
Nick Mason on proudly owning a reproduction of the primary motorcar
Throughout a wide-ranging chat, Mason detailed the gorgeous automobiles he has purchased, together with a reproduction of the world’s first ever motorcar.
“Funnily sufficient the most recent automobile may be essentially the most unlikely as a result of it’s a reproduction,” 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 concept was for them to go to a few museums, in all probability the Mercedes-Benz museum particularly, who wished this reproduction, however whereas he was doing it he thought, I’ll make a bunch of those.
“They’re essentially the most wonderful automobiles as a result of they do work. Sadly although they aren’t totally highway authorized.
“What it appears 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 sincere, however I’m advised it’s simply as horrifying as any tremendous automobile.”
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