Podcast 170 - A hangar full of questions
Added 2023-07-30 17:00:02 +0000 UTCIn their second recording from Bicester Heritage, Jonny and Richard take audience questions and talk SAAB specialists, a new song lyrics game, useless vans, tractor choices, wild horses, ill-advised things to do while driving, a secret Jonny needs to keep from Porsche, the surprise return of British Leyland, right foot clutching, a Metro GTa disaster, strange passengers, trailers made from half a car, good cars with bad passengers, car stitch-ups, and someone’s brought along a genuine no-name full suspension mountain bike.
Thanks to The Little Car Company for hosting us at Bicester.
Comments
What I didn't know about John Deere tractors is you aren't allowed to repair them in some parts of the world, or choose a dealer of your choice. This has changed in the US recently though https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/farmers-lobby-urges-right-to-repair-reform-following-america/101845978
Stephen Voss
2023-08-01 05:33:06 +0000 UTCI know I'm banned from the bus trivia, but the Leyland "plughole" is still used by the Indian commercial vehicle business 'ASHOK LEYLAND' A few years ago they acquired the British bus building business OPTARE (itself descended from British Leyland but privatised in the 1980s). At the annual NEC Bus & Coach show Ashok proudly flew a giant "plughole" high above their display area; much to the amusement of many a bus engineer with long memories of the woeful service they received from Leyland the 1st time around. Ashok toned down the use of the logo in future.
John Hammond
2023-08-01 05:23:26 +0000 UTCI'd pick a green tractor but not a John Deere, instead my choice would be a single cylinder 2-stroke Field Marshall of the 1950s. If you YouTube it, you'll see the starting procedure involves burning paper coated in saltpetre, a shotgun cartridge and an effing great whack with a hammer before it starts phut phuting off into the distance. FM ended up part of the Leyland empire.
John Hammond
2023-07-31 22:03:01 +0000 UTCThat outro track makes me think I wonder if Bernard Sumner is a listener? Could he be persuaded into a guest vocal
Jim Galbraith
2023-07-31 18:35:13 +0000 UTCI hope I can come to one of these one day!
Zac Chandler
2023-07-31 17:15:21 +0000 UTCAwesome recording again lads👍 Don't worry though nobody noticed... It was very well felt with. 👌
Zac Chandler
2023-07-31 17:14:53 +0000 UTCIn the US red tractors were International Harvester until their demise in the 80's and orange was Alis-Chalmers
Bill
2023-07-31 17:09:22 +0000 UTCAlso in the 1970 London to Mexico rally were two teams from BL, the first had Triumph 2.5PI Mk 2s, the second had Maxis, Land Crabs and a Mini. So an Ambassador in the Dakar may not be that far fetched...
Bruce Driffill
2023-07-31 14:15:06 +0000 UTCThe Riley brand is apparently still owned by BMW. I’m certain the RM was the inspiration for the grill on the XM.
David Carss
2023-07-31 09:22:53 +0000 UTCArguably if you want to do LE-JOG, you have to do it twice as you need to get from home to the starting point and get back again.
Graham Dallas
2023-07-30 18:21:21 +0000 UTCJohn O'Groats is a bit dismal too, it's very isolated with not much around. There's a campsite and now some 'luxury' holiday 'lodges' that I think are like Jonny's office, but I can't understand why anyone would want to stay there. I still want to do the length of the country via towns with funny names though.
Matt Tester
2023-07-30 18:03:22 +0000 UTC
