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 identified for being a part of iconic British band Pink Floyd, serving to to put in writing hit singles reminiscent of 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 through the years and what’s in his present assortment.
Nick Mason on proudly owning a reproduction of the primary motorized vehicle
Throughout a wide-ranging chat, Mason detailed the gorgeous automobiles he has purchased, together with a reproduction of the world’s first ever motorized vehicle.
“Funnily sufficient the most recent automobile is perhaps 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 truly made 12 of those. The thought was for them to go to a few museums, most likely the Mercedes-Benz museum specifically, who wished this duplicate, however whereas he was doing it he thought, I’ll make a bunch of those.
“They’re essentially the most superb automobiles as a result of they do work. Sadly although they don’t seem to be totally highway authorized.
“What it appears to be like like is a Victorian pram. The unique has now gone, however I believe it was Mercedes themselves who commissioned the making of this duplicate.
“I haven’t pushed it but, I’ve to be sincere, however I’m informed it’s simply as horrifying as any tremendous automobile.”
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