 We're here with David Drake from the Bash Bakers, a long-standing basher, a long-standing bash team Dave. What brings you back for the 25th bash? Well I've done so many now and I think this is the 18th and it was the 25th so I thought well you've just got to come back and do another one. I didn't intend to but here we are. It's a pretty hard thing to get away from isn't it? Definitely. Once you're a basher you're always a basher I think. So I've put my wife and daughter along this time and we're having a great time. We're going to head south on a couple of mellard hens. Come over here my friend. I notice you've got a list of the basher's that this particular vehicle might have done at any particular favourites in their day. I think this one here, the 2000 bash, the needy to Auckland one, that was one, had four versions on that bash and we got into Christchurch after a wet trip over this pass and the clutch decided it didn't want to go any further so we got it fixed, we thought, got to Amberley, it wasn't fixed, went back to Christchurch, left at six o'clock at night to go to Westport, ran out of fuel at the Nagahua Junction, fuel blockage, got towed into Westport, had a bottle of bourbon, went to bed, got up in the morning and headed off to Nelson after about three hours of sleep. And I had some virgins with me and one of them said to me when he got to Christchurch he was supposed to get off, can I come the whole way with you? I said certainly you can and now his company's on their colour right, been with us the whole time and was a great spot so. And I also had, I think it was Ed Finn from Ford with me, was his first bash too, so that was the most memorable bash. Sounds like one hell of a committed day there getting back over to Westport two o'clock in the morning, then five o'clock off to Nelson for the kids. Oh yeah, that's right, we got up and washed the car before we went of course, you've got to have a clean car before you see the car, kids, yeah, of course you do! Nice, nice. The vehicle itself Dave, can you talk through what exactly we have here? Well it's a 1965 Ford fair lane that was, had done a couple of bashes before we bought it, we bought it in 1995 and did our first bash in 1996, so she's three on the tree. We started off its life as a cocky's car in Stratford and then a cocky's car in Hunterville and then Barry Hitchings from HarperCollins bought it, took a couple of bashes in it, took it back to, put it back to a classic car and we persuaded him to sell it to us. We said we'd look after it, so we've tried to look after it the best we could for it. It certainly looks, it certainly looks wonderful Dave, over the years Bash Bakers have supplied the bashes with a great deal of its bread, do you want to talk about this year's sponsor? Well this year's sponsor is really a supporter, this year's, we didn't have a lot of sponsorship this year, we've actually done it ourselves, however I went, there's a bakery in Christchurch and I went to them and talked to them about it and I said give me your advertising, give me some logos and I'll put it on the car for you, so that's what we've done. Very nice. It's all free. Dave, on behalf of all the bashes it's really excellent to have you back along and certainly for the 21st Bash to you and the Hens and all the Drake community and in general. So mate thank you very much for coming on back and we really enjoy having you back along. Pleasure, pleasure to be here. Right. I'll be looking forward to that next one in the South Island. There you have it. David Drake, team captain of the Bash Bakers, back for the 25th year Bash. That's your Abasha, always Abasha. I'm Mark and this is the Profile.