Podcast 169 - Live from Bicester Heritage
Added 2023-07-23 17:01:00 +0000 UTCIn front of a live audience in a massive hangar at Bicester Heritage, Jonny and Richard talk road signs, a revelation about no-name full suspension mountain bike guy, a note left on Jonny’s car, audience stories about note leaving, spotting Fiat Fullbacks, the sadness of the Fiat Doblo, getting to sit in a scale steam engine, stickers of another car on your car, a listener’s story about undercarriage damage during a test drive, people who’ve never driven an auto, people with wagon wheels and boats in the garden, another listener tells us about a handfree bathroom incident, car-based I have never game, the Rickman Ranger, a front-wheel-drive Countach, extreme reversing stance, almost tipping over, cars to commit crimes in, and surprising fans of the Opel Vectra.
Huge thanks to The Little Car Company for hosting this live recording, and for bringing down their excellent new Tamiya Wild One MAX.
Comments
Not so much a note but in a similar case to Johnny, narrow space, left hand side neighbour wayyy over the bay marking. Returned to find wiper that side lifted and inverted.
Maurice Barnes
2023-08-20 20:23:13 +0000 UTCI'm currently rebuilding a Warrior Classic ( an Off Road racing buggy) and it uses a Rover V8 in the back mated to an SD1 Vitesse gearbox driving upside down Land Rover Axles. Axle flippage would soon have the "Cortach" driving forwards!
Phil Griffiths
2023-07-25 17:00:37 +0000 UTCWorst note I ever received: I had parked a bit too far back from curb (there were parking spots on the side of the street, broken up by little "islands" with a tree on them). As my Wartburg 1.3 had the turning circle of two double-decker buses I had left myself a good 80 cm/2 feet in front so I could palm-lock the wheel and u-turn out of there... Roughly translated it was a half an A4 sheet stating that the publisher wished that: 1. I become ill with a number of diseases, tropical and sexual 2. That the police send me to Turkish prison (how extradition from Germany works for a "crime" committed in Germany was not explained. 3. That a diarrheatic camel defecate on my hood/bonnet (strangely specific this one) 4. that my gearbox be filled with sand. And who says Germany have no sense of humor!
Andy Pinchock
2023-07-24 13:58:50 +0000 UTCA housemate thought a road side would be a great replacement for the floorboards in his '65 Mustang. He stole one one night from a construction site. He slide it in the trunk/boot and took off hoping no one noticed. He then proceeded to forget about the sign in the trunk and being in Michigan, where we pour 3 grams over 1 ton of salt per square feet on the roads in winter the rust problem that had befallen floorboards had only worsened to to the point that once day on the I-75 @ roughly 80 mpg there was a loud scraping noise followed by what he described as "13 snare drums being beaten on by coked-up chimpanzees in a cement mixer". He didn't stop as the embarrassment was too high. This is the same Mustang that decided a few months later the hood/bonnet latch was only optional and preferred acting as an airbrake... again at about 80 MPH on a highway...
Andy Pinchock
2023-07-24 13:39:16 +0000 UTCI left a note on a caddy van not long ago saying "your van has leaked a lot of coolant, don't let it overheat, could be expensive". It felt rather kind at the time. In reality, I should have ended the note with "Also, your stickerbomed front wing looks sh*t".
Alex Miles
2023-07-24 09:08:18 +0000 UTCSome of the "pay and play" events I've seen in the past are genuinely up there with banger racing in terms of vehicle abuse and displays of absolute mechanical brutality. They're the kind of events where all of the vauxhall fonteras and nissan terranos/ford mavericks went to die.
Alex Miles
2023-07-24 09:03:14 +0000 UTCI left a note on a Fiat 500 in a car park in the buzzness area around Temple Meads in Bristol once which described the owner as being "a sad waste of DNA". They'd parked next to the drivers side of my car and left a 2 inch gap. I couldn't even squeeze down the side of my car and had to climb across from the passenger side into the drivers seat. So pleased was I with the line, that I followed it off with "you thick c**t" in bold letters which was applied to the back window of the car so all passers by could see it.
John Hammond
2023-07-24 06:31:28 +0000 UTCThe term Richard was clutching at is Winch Challenge, as a bobtail Disco owner I'd be offended if I didn't already know you're both flutes. Also I was very close to that railway the other week and had no idea about it. Sadly I wouldn't have had time to stop.
Matt Tester
2023-07-23 19:23:00 +0000 UTC
