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Added 2023-09-24 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHello again, and we start this week with a picture of Captain Tolley’s Creeping Crack Cure. Of course. Then we have a classic example of grey plastic misery spec in a Daewoo Chevy, a boastfully advertised Matiz, a reminder of the faux-Caddy Magentis and its cobra head, and the ad for an atomatic example. Finally, there’s the subtitle for Walter Rural and a mysteriously snorkelled airport vehicle spotted by Jonny. Not much in the way of links this week but, as if to prove that we didn’t make it up, here’s the website for Captain Tolley.
Oh, and don’t forget, we have merch.
Comments
Nothing to do with this weeks podcast but Honda just announced this and it reminded me of Jonny :) https://motocompacto.honda.com/
Roja
2023-09-30 07:52:53 +0000 UTCEver since the first videos I have been enjoying Jonny's creative descriptions - flute/flautist, janglesack, egg bag, wand etc. Delighted then on this week's podcast listen and dog walk for Rich to come in strong calling Jonny a sleeve. For a few minutes Rich held the high ground, before Jonny came out of nowhere with 'armpit wank' which had me in stitches - I mean, the mind boggles. Anyhow, I finished the dog walk and stopped at a local petrol station for essential nutrition. As I got out of the car, I spot a very ill sounding car and looking around see a silver X-Type clattering across the forecourt. Naturally excited, I am looking closely for skulls, pornographic brake lights, purple glitter 'Fuck off' etc. Problem is I was not being remotely surreptitious and the driver stopped and stared at me, clearly wondering what the hell I was doing. You have to be careful looking for Jag vandalism clearly!
Snowy
2023-09-29 14:15:14 +0000 UTCPretty sure they used to - have a faint memory of my (medical) dad telling me about a particular disease that could be tracked in its progression by flight routes and the fall of "blue ice"
Matthew Aves
2023-09-27 15:25:06 +0000 UTCThere’s a memory jogger. 8 plus hours on a Herc from Al u deid to Balad in Iraq. Boiling hot and drinking gallons of water. Having to use that “urinal” at the front of the cabin.
Jamie Miller
2023-09-27 07:03:01 +0000 UTCWalter Rural and Lewis Hamiltown. Racing for Suburban Technica International.
Steve McMaster
2023-09-27 06:57:03 +0000 UTCCreeping Crack Cure was my default leeky sunroof solution for years whilst buying questionable Italian cars.
Andrew Kirkby
2023-09-26 19:50:54 +0000 UTCI’ve used the Captain’s creeping crack before - was a good few years ago so can’t remember what on - might have been a headlight. And on the subject of leaks, there’s a 5 door Audi A3 around the corner for me that’s been missing it’s rear quarter light window for a good couple of months. Started off with a bin bag taped over it but it seems to have been left uncovered now for at least a month. Car is parked outside in all weathers so god knows how damp and smelly the interior is now.
Stephen Archer
2023-09-26 18:46:49 +0000 UTCNo, no, no guys Walter Rural drive a Smokey, saging on the bags, Silver Audi A6 Allroad TDi (C5) and bores everyone to death that it's a quattro.
Cornish Rider
2023-09-26 18:18:22 +0000 UTCNot related to this episode but I saw this and immediately thought of Porter and our shared fear of being hit in the head at speed by a bird through an open window, while driving down a generously hedged country road. https://www.facebook.com/reel/663810375711065?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V
Saq
2023-09-26 15:52:02 +0000 UTCI’ve used Creeping Crack - still holding strong!!!
Mark Rutherford
2023-09-26 15:17:59 +0000 UTCYou can tell that by how they didn't bother painting anything that wasn't on the exterior of car it just kinds of fades off under bonnet. Mine had spent 10 hard years in the centre of Edinburgh and it looked like it had been parked using only low speed impacts for all of those 10 years. It was neglected and I felt sorry for it, which is a sure fire recipe to create a money pit.
Glenn Chalmers
2023-09-26 13:25:27 +0000 UTCFIND ANOTHER. An £85,000 Clio. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225787932508?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=usztt53OSOi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=AtYwbsT2Ts-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
TD
2023-09-26 10:57:08 +0000 UTCI can only report what I found with the seats. Two road trips, in an EV6 and the GT, only the GT seats left me feeling achey. As for 'too fast', I think the real issue is that it doesn't have the chassis of a sports car, or even a Taycan, and the power feels wasted for all but straight line squirts. The standard EV6 is a very nice thing but the lesser range and, in my view, lesser comfort of the GT aren't outweighed by the extra power and make it a less appealing car. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-26 10:45:29 +0000 UTCSpaceFlex cabin! For all your audible pooing needs!
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-26 10:42:28 +0000 UTCThe problem, I suspect, is that the Panda was designed to be affordable and that means it's not made of the finest quality materials, especially in parts you can't see. It's a brilliant car, but much of it has to be just good enough while allowing Fiat to turn a profit. Even the top-of-the-range car uses the fundamentals of a model created around a low purchase price when new. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-26 10:41:44 +0000 UTCDear God!
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-26 10:39:13 +0000 UTCI learned to drive in a bright red Daewoo Matiz, the shame of it as a 17 year old, but now I would quite like one. I recall the seat fabric was seemingly not attached to the seat foam which meant for sideways-slidey-bum action on roundabouts. K20 in the Panda?
Rich Gee - Gee's Drive
2023-09-26 10:38:12 +0000 UTCI think you’re both being a bit wussy about the EV6 GT. How can you say the seats are worse than a standard one - they’re fantastic! And how can it be too fast??? Just back from a 2,700 mile blat across Europe in mine including some autobahn cruising and a trip to the ‘ring (just for Jonny 😜)
Ross Pierrepont
2023-09-26 09:40:36 +0000 UTCNot direct, surely? Unless Pope Urban II was one of those very naughty pope.
Chris Rayner
2023-09-26 06:03:57 +0000 UTCI have used Captain Tolley’s excellent product on my boat. It works. Don’t think I’d bother with trying to revive shagged rubber door seals. I think it might sort out leaks around fixed windows in cars. Certainly worth a crack😉.
Chris Rayner
2023-09-26 06:00:07 +0000 UTCThe aircraft seat on the back of the rear bog door is part of the Airbus “SpaceFlex cabin” option for the A320 family which makes the galley half width and moves the toilets into the space created. All in order to install an extra row of seats! The toilet system on commercial jets is operated by a vacuum generator and keeps everything in a tank, nothing goes overboard. Some small business jet types have recirculating toilets like a porta-loo or camp toilet instead of the vacuum system to save weight.
Oliver Burden
2023-09-25 19:54:07 +0000 UTCmost if not all trains used to drop it all straight on the track, I was taught when I worked on the railway to always acknowledge the driver, then turn your back on the train as it passes...
Helen Morris
2023-09-25 18:17:43 +0000 UTCJust as you land, you have to kick the rudder to straighten up. I feels quite opposite lock ish. This is known as de-crabbing. I imagine this was also required in Lady Sonia's Range Rover.
Anthony Daniels
2023-09-25 18:07:24 +0000 UTCWalter Rural sounds like the name of a steam rally wrong’un.
Ollie Horsley
2023-09-25 16:18:58 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure everyone who has owned an aging Panda 100HP has some horror story or other. I bought one and had the timing belt changed then once financially committed to it the alternator randomly seized then the clutch master and slave cylinders failed. I fitted it with a fresh set of happy joy road £30 tyres and did 2 laps of a Knockhill track day in it before the gear linkage fell off. These things all happened directly after each other and they're absolute misery to work on. I sold it and the new owner hit a pheasant and wiped out the front end shortly after.. Some of the 437 miles I did in it I enjoyed although I'm not sure it was a great return on investment after buying it for £1100, spending £800 on repairs then selling it for £1200, which I was very happy to receive.
Glenn Chalmers
2023-09-25 15:39:08 +0000 UTCWe need an update on Jonny's creeping crack cure. I need to know how successful the penetration is!! Seriously, I have a potential use for it...
Stephen Hollingsworth
2023-09-25 15:34:23 +0000 UTCOn the Lady Sonia side of things - my mate still has a dead fake Taxi - off of Fake Taxi.com . The scenes were filmed in his paddock/yard for a couple of years and the taxi, being barely roadworthy, was stored there between shoots. Had a few happy lunchtimes up there chatting to the girls over a cup of tea and a sausage roll. All came to an end during covid lockdown. I understand that the local youths established the location (video evidence was available) and took to firing ball bearings from catapults at the taxi from the treeline which put the performer off his stroke (so to speak). Make me chuckle as that is exactly what I would have done as a 15 year old. Any interest in the taxi is soon dispelled once you see the bucket of used wetwipes in the front compartment.
Matthew Aves
2023-09-25 15:16:55 +0000 UTCNevermind a car filled with dust this one is filled with cockroaches. https://youtu.be/k2DOyDCc-L8?si=lMDuBD5EhinoAAJ4
S Carter
2023-09-25 12:55:42 +0000 UTChttps://reddit.com/r/Unexpected/s/Y2IjYZtpZk
S Carter
2023-09-25 12:48:37 +0000 UTCA lot of trains dumped business straight onto the tracks, you'd quite often see it in stations and along sections of track. And splattered up the mechanical bits if you were working on them :(
John Hammond
2023-09-25 12:44:10 +0000 UTCWonder if Keith was a descendant of Pope Urban II...
Peter Heamon
2023-09-25 11:10:44 +0000 UTCThe truck that empties the tanks is called a Honey Wagon!
Peter Heamon
2023-09-25 11:04:44 +0000 UTCIt is indeed crabbing, hence the nickname for us RAF folk as 'crabs'. However, following the podulecast I shall henceforth call it drifto-landing.
Peter Heamon
2023-09-25 11:03:29 +0000 UTCC-130 Hercules had urinal drains that vented piss straight to the atmosphere. Unless they iced up of course, then the can just filled with stinking foaming wee. Also Inter-City 125s used to vent toilet doings on to the track, hence why there were notices not to use the toilet at the station. Paddington used to stink in the summer as many people roundly ignored the notice.
Peter Heamon
2023-09-25 11:01:17 +0000 UTCNot an aero engineer, but I did go on a training course a few years back where I learnt that airliners are infact often full of cracks, they just rely on failsafe design and inspections. Also, does this mean the biscuit tin marked “ghetto boxster fund” is now empty?
Thomas Hill
2023-09-25 10:13:11 +0000 UTCI am a boarding pass printer, and I'm under 40. Last year I was on a stag-do and one of the group's phone ran out of battery and couldn't get through security. They had to find a power socket and almost missed the flight. The phone ran out again while we were waiting to get through the gates. I shall remain a boarding pass printer.
Ben Oliver
2023-09-25 09:16:20 +0000 UTCyep!
Joseph Woodhouse
2023-09-25 08:58:40 +0000 UTCIt's crabbing not drifting! And many planes have seats in the bog door but usually only used in take off / landing - so she was definately on sentry duty!
Anthony Daniels
2023-09-25 08:47:30 +0000 UTCWalter Rural's nemeses were the urban sprawls Peter Borough and Tel' Ford
John Hammond
2023-09-25 08:46:27 +0000 UTCSo when a plane comes in to land it's carrying a big tank of piss?
Smith and Sniff
2023-09-25 08:40:11 +0000 UTCI'm both relieved and disappointed about that
Patrick Rennison
2023-09-25 07:47:50 +0000 UTCCan confirm, that aircraft toilets do not release to atmosphere. just a tank that is emptied via tanker. In the same way that all the portable water on board is from a tank, nothing too fancy or interesting going on I'm afraid!
Joseph Woodhouse
2023-09-25 07:39:16 +0000 UTCThe Captain sadly died a few years ago. His wife, who spends part of the year living on a houseboat in London is a good customer of mine and let's just say that the product does not work on broken computers. I think that CCC is just very dilute PVA glue.
Mark Morgan
2023-09-25 07:39:15 +0000 UTCThe snorkel on the Toyota Coaster bus is a factory Toyota option, usually for hot and dusty enviroments. The 'wood burning stove' domed part at the top is actually a precleaner that helps reduce the dust intake before it reaches the airfilter. A common sight on 'Mine Spec' Toyotas here in Australia.
Andrew Hofler
2023-09-25 07:23:38 +0000 UTCI think you’re missing something chaps, the piss-mister is a form of organic adblue directed straight into the exhaust of the jet turbine to clean up its emissions.
Guy Beattie
2023-09-25 07:02:46 +0000 UTCIan HubNut did indeed buy his Matiz new. But he sold it after a couple of years, only to stumble across and buy it back the best part of 20 years later - the crazy loon.
Jonathan Holmes
2023-09-25 06:21:55 +0000 UTCRegarding the snorkel, is there any chance that’s the exhaust? I’ve noticed that the airport trucks here in Calgary have the exhaust routed to the front of the vehicle. I assume it’s so the driver doesn’t accidentally aim the exhaust at a fuel source. Or start a grass fire.
Colin Young
2023-09-25 00:12:43 +0000 UTCPretty sure I once tried fixing a crack in my bath with Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure. It didn’t work…
Scott
2023-09-24 22:01:31 +0000 UTCCaptain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure is brilliant. It's really low viscosity like milk and flows into gaps and sets. I use it on my leaky old camper van regularly 😊
Fergus McIver
2023-09-24 21:43:49 +0000 UTCSome say... Walter Rural is more concerned about touring car drivers Tom and Max Chilterns than his Urban counterparts
Charles Clark
2023-09-24 21:00:51 +0000 UTCWalter Rural's main rival was the late great Ken Tower Block
Stuart Richards
2023-09-24 20:13:17 +0000 UTCWalter Rural’s chief driving rival is, of course, Michelle Moutown.
Brendan McAleer
2023-09-24 20:07:27 +0000 UTCMisha is Russian and based at the 'ring, driving other people's cars, sometimes not into the barriers. Good grief the YouTube comments are going to explode tomorrow 🤣
Thomas Cowley
2023-09-24 19:45:45 +0000 UTCSurely, Walter Rural’s nemesis is Keith Urban.
Sequoia Van Camp
2023-09-24 19:43:52 +0000 UTCI totally believe Helen Mirren could have been at Santa Pod. I have Jenna Stannis (Blake's 7) working at my local petrol station. I haven't blown her cover yet by grassing her to the Federation.
Tom Lanigan
2023-09-24 18:39:18 +0000 UTCThe snorkel is because under Typhoon conditions the rain falls so hard and so heavy it bounces up from the acres of concrete on an airport and can get sucked into an engine intake set low. Plus other traffic on the airport will generate bow waves as they pass one another because even the storm drains become over loaded at times.
Andrew Jones
2023-09-24 18:35:30 +0000 UTC
