Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason joins hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty on the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round to debate his profession, automotive assortment and nonetheless writing music in his 80s.
Mason is finest identified for being a part of iconic British band Pink Floyd, serving to to write down hit singles corresponding 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 reproduction of the primary motorcar
Throughout a wide-ranging chat, Mason detailed the gorgeous vehicles he has purchased, together with a reproduction of the world’s first ever motorcar.
“Funnily sufficient the newest automotive is perhaps essentially the most unlikely as a result of it’s a reproduction,” Mason defined.
“The unique automotive now not exists, of a 1895 Benz, which is principally seen as the primary motor automotive 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 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 superb vehicles as a result of they do work. Sadly although they don’t seem to be solely street authorized.
“What it seems to be like is a Victorian pram. The unique has now gone, however I believe 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 advised it’s simply as scary as any tremendous automotive.”
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