Show notes 171
Added 2023-08-06 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHello again. Technical of jacket and wrap-around of sunglasses, here we are again with some show notes, starting with the burgundy Caterham Jonny borrowed and its amazingly choady shifter. Then we have the nice cloth bits of a Bentley Flying Spur Edition 12 interior, a Cupra Leon wagon (like the one hired by Richard which he forgot to take a photo of), the Lynk & Co 01 and DR 4.0 generic SUVs, a Golf R with its crappy badge and the similar logo of Regency Enterprises. Finally, we have a very narrow tracked Hymer motorhome and a safe-for-work version of the naturist selling an Ape pic. Link to the original Tweet below. Speaking of which, some links…
Original naturist buying an Ape Tweet here
Buy tickets for the Retro Rides Gathering x The Late Brake Show on 13 August
Comments
Oh - yeah. Holiday hire cars. Big dust ups at verona airport hire cars as they were trying to foist electric MG's on holiday makers whilst forgetting that Italians don't drive electric cars so there's next to no charging structure in the country. I ended up with a hybrid luckily after refusing the Morris Garage dogshit they started with. Good job too. I did 1200KM's in 12 days round lake Garda and only saw one charger the whole time.
Matthew Aves
2023-08-15 16:41:44 +0000 UTCThat really is quite an unpleasant looking caterham. All the shyte options ticked including the colour - Is it on Diyung Ditchfinders or the stickier widow makers?
Matthew Aves
2023-08-15 16:37:46 +0000 UTCJust returned from Mallorca - those DR and Lynk hire cars are everywhere. I was given an Alfa but a Stelvio rather than a Toenail.
MarkWilliams
2023-08-14 16:09:11 +0000 UTCWhy do people have a problem with wrap round shades??
Stuart_esq
2023-08-13 08:26:53 +0000 UTCThat colour 🤮
J993T
2023-08-12 07:11:27 +0000 UTCCould you have used the Caterham battery and the pump on the Can Hope to put gas in the tank?
Tim Gilbery
2023-08-11 17:36:58 +0000 UTCThat caterham shifter is very reminiscent of winter cycling knob. I do cycle in the winter, so that’s why I know about it.
Stephen Cooper
2023-08-09 19:47:13 +0000 UTCThe Caterham colour is ‘boomer red’. Only boomers spec anything in that colour. Additionally, the Caravan/Campervan decal departments are at least marginally more up to date than their colleagues in the interior design department who appear to think people still want interiors that resemble yer grans house.
David Carss
2023-08-09 10:04:25 +0000 UTCRealised today I haven't heard Jonny mention Chops for a while. Hope all is ok...
will ingless
2023-08-08 15:27:19 +0000 UTCThis deserves to be read out on the podcast. That final sentence 😂
Ollie Horsley
2023-08-08 10:45:31 +0000 UTCPah Johnny, for the full on hardcore Caterham experience, now remove the windscreen and go Aero screen. Thick beanie , bullet proof Oakley glasses and an optional neck buff. Without the neck buff this provides the opportunity to snack on Insects as you drive. I was that Guy for a few years :-)
Mark Williams
2023-08-08 08:18:36 +0000 UTCJust on the caravan naming train - I think I hold the Top Trump of caravan names, having spotted the "Pastiche" whilst out and about. Absolutely genuine, and I haven't the heart to tell them what it means. Caravan of the Year 2013 apparently.
Helen Morris
2023-08-07 21:01:13 +0000 UTCIs this the most car content we’ve ever had?
DrivingForever
2023-08-07 18:20:30 +0000 UTCLeaving roofs behind reminds me of a story told to me by the owner of the only (as far as can be known) Shelby Cobra in Alaska. He hosted a local tour and a few other Cobra owners shipped theirs up. Halfway through they ended up via ferry in Whittier - the only road out of Whittier goes through a 2.5 mile tunnel that also has an active railway in it. Check those train timetables *very carefully*. Anyway, because the tunnel is unfinished rock and bits of it sometimes fall off, you legally have to have a roof, and only one Cobra did (this is a whole thing with Cobra owners. Most of the club tours you get kicked out of the club for putting up your roof). So followed a Cobra-based version of the goose-grain-fox puzzle shuttling people back and forth with the one roof and not-quite-enough hard hats. Later in the trip, a grizzly partially ate the one Cobra's roof.
Brendan McAleer
2023-08-07 14:42:34 +0000 UTCMadness frontman Graham 'Suggs' McPherson picked his own nickname apparently by randomly picking out of a book of Jazz musicians that belonged to his mum. He settled on Peter Suggs and began tagging various North London buildings with it. Of course as petrol heads we'd have probably called him 'strut'
John Hammond
2023-08-07 13:47:26 +0000 UTCJonny definitely needs to drive a Smart Roadster now so he can compare that with the Caterham, both being sub-700CC turbo triples. It'll most likely be disappointing but then it's out of his system. I could only live with my Roadster for a couple of years.
Matt Tester
2023-08-07 12:15:09 +0000 UTCThat caterham looks great in the dark red, would be nice on some silver steelies.
Robert Seymour
2023-08-07 10:54:43 +0000 UTCIn a previous podcast Johnny used the term "Wuhan ditchfinder" to describe budget tyres. A term that the lads in my local garage found highly amusing as I sought a replacement for a recently impaled budget tyre on a £200 Hyundai Santa Fe in a slightly "farm-spec" mishap. Perhaps a worthy addition to the Smith and sniff glossary of terms?
Alex Miles
2023-08-07 08:58:39 +0000 UTCOkay I didn’t believe it could be THAT much of a chode-y shifter but good god that’s obscene.
Calum Gillies
2023-08-07 08:32:37 +0000 UTCStinky Flask 3 from them later?
Stephen Voss
2023-08-07 06:00:40 +0000 UTCIt just looks sore. Give me a rubber bellows style gaiter any day.
Matt Tester
2023-08-06 22:43:10 +0000 UTCI found that the Piaggio Ape used to serve coffee in the now-closed Wythenshawe Market, south Manchester. It explains why this guy was selling it. Here you have the Piaggio in its previous life (no naturist included): https://www.facebook.com/northerngrindcoffee/photos/a.1703515613245219/2614724302124341/
Alejo Rossia
2023-08-06 20:06:42 +0000 UTCAccording to the Caterham configurator, you can choose the standard "Vinyl gearshift gaiter £0" or "Baboon's bum 'n' buttplug £200".
Alastair Beaton
2023-08-06 19:18:45 +0000 UTCPhew, will give it a listen then !
Matt Chatterley
2023-08-06 18:46:59 +0000 UTCWhy did post swimming George Costanza come to mind when I looked at that Caterham gearknob….
Andy MacRae
2023-08-06 18:30:32 +0000 UTCReally no need to point at it
Skelmansi
2023-08-06 18:19:41 +0000 UTCPossibly grinding too
S Carter
2023-08-06 18:13:34 +0000 UTCRoasting and bagging!
Smith and Sniff
2023-08-06 18:12:19 +0000 UTCJonny doesn't mention this in the podcast. You'll have to listen to find out why the pics are here.
Smith and Sniff
2023-08-06 18:11:40 +0000 UTCwith all the SUV pics, is Johnny still on a tirade about them vs estates? not sure I can listen if he is
Matt Chatterley
2023-08-06 18:03:04 +0000 UTCI thought the whole Cupra thing was supposed to be for the spoooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrttt versions!?
Nathan English
2023-08-06 17:56:59 +0000 UTCThe correct phrase for the colour of the Caterham is "Old Bastard Red"
Nigel Hancock
2023-08-06 17:55:55 +0000 UTCListening to the cast might be the only solution. And the first time ever listened to be educated.
Rob Stannard
2023-08-06 17:21:50 +0000 UTCThought I had a Power Nap after stereotypical Sunday morning ( walk of dogs + mowing the green green grass of home ). Maybe it was hyper sleep. What is Lynk & co and who are DR?
Rob Stannard
2023-08-06 17:20:30 +0000 UTCImagine buying coffee off that guy and then finding out he's been roasting and bagging it in the buff.
S Carter
2023-08-06 17:17:46 +0000 UTCThose DR things are everywhere in Spain, I had no idea what they were but guessed they were a Chinese brand.
Mark Sheridan
2023-08-06 17:05:26 +0000 UTC
