Podcast 167 - I'm on it, 6
Added 2023-07-09 17:00:04 +0000 UTCJonny recounts hard driving an electric Hyundai in a race to catch a train. Also in this episode, the problem with sleeveless T-shirts, picking a racing line through an airport, queasiness on the set of 5th Gear, beeping goodbye, old school stereo security, interesting JDM-spec GR86s, a German taxi driver hangout, giving Tiff a salt block to lick, ill-fitting airport trousers, a different spin on ‘find another!!!’ and some new promotional end music.
Comments
I too remember i for important from ‘tales of modern motoring’. I seem to remember one of the sales reps managed to get several vowels out of that one letter!
Peter Heamon
2023-07-16 17:12:20 +0000 UTCGrowing up on a cul-de-sac, we all used to stand at the front door and wave my gran/grandad off, (in both directions), usually after a family dinner. It was around 1990 and my grandad was the proud owner of an orange Skoda Estelle, my dad had recently been promoted and had just received his brand-new company Mk3 Cavalier 2.0i (i for important). Much to the amusement of 8 year old me, grandad would 'accidently on purpose' select reverse and deliberately set off in the wrong gear, do a surprised face, then set off in the correct direction. Unfortunately on one occasion, my dad had parked the Cav directly behind the Skoda.. The Estelle rode up on the front bumper, crushing the headlamps, grille and bonnet - there wasn't a mark on the Skoda! Grandad never did the comedy set-off again.. 🤦☹
Sam Houghton
2023-07-15 07:26:41 +0000 UTCJust NO .... To hello/goodbye pipping.... It's so anti social. In the street drive-by ”its me pipping" .... Social flogging required Clarkson stylie., DON'T FUCKING DO IT.... It's not cool it's embarrassingly cringe-worthy.... STOP IT .. LICENCE REVOKED..., The horn is to alert other drivers of hazards or imminent death, it's not an extension of your gob !
Paul Fargher
2023-07-13 07:50:05 +0000 UTCI have to drive off around the corner and stop to set up sat-nav etc :D
Jack Jones
2023-07-12 16:14:07 +0000 UTCWith regard to ill fitting trousers - the ones supplied for the commonwealth games were either nut crushing or MC hammer fitting. I am a short and slightly fat bloke but in general uniform tends to be bought for the majority, not for freaks like me.
Stephen Cooper
2023-07-12 14:55:19 +0000 UTCWorse, my grandparents once stood at their door waving me off but the windscreen was fogged up and took a while to clear - so they were standing their waving for a full 10 minutes.
Ed Storer
2023-07-12 14:21:19 +0000 UTCThere is definitely a mutual upset from the doorway standees too, who are stood waiting and thinking 'ffs hurry up and go' on the doorstep.
John Hammond
2023-07-12 14:21:07 +0000 UTCNothing worse than people standing in the doorway waving you off, while you are faffing around with the sat nav and checking the traffic, still five minutes away from setting off.
Ben Oliver
2023-07-12 07:08:25 +0000 UTCI can't stop giggling at drive-by bye-bye!
Nick Davies
2023-07-11 19:40:29 +0000 UTCI find horses the hardest as you don't want to beep but you just end up silently following them, I tend to use the horn a long way off so they know I'm coming. I don't even have a low speed noise...
Will Flack
2023-07-11 10:04:44 +0000 UTCWe need more pedestrian horns on EVs. Wife’s Hyundai only has a loud klaxon, so you have the choice of driving really slowly behind old people (because they can’t hear you) or scaring the shit of out them and risk them falling flat on their face in the car park.
Ed Storer
2023-07-11 09:31:14 +0000 UTCI bought some Brut from Jonny at the Retro Rides event last year. Nearly finished the bottle now so will FIND ANOTHER.
Ed Storer
2023-07-11 09:29:51 +0000 UTCWhen Richard was talking about the wedding photographer, Jonny's accent went full Somerset whilst he was laughing and saying 'no he didn't'. Find another podcast that's as funny as this, I'll wait.
Julian Hale
2023-07-11 08:45:04 +0000 UTCAs I work for a very well know UK electrical retailer, I can confirm that 'company trousers' are an actual reality.
Andrew Armstrong
2023-07-10 19:20:25 +0000 UTCThey are called baseball sleeves in the US. I always hit the hotel breakfast as soon as they open so I can go back to the room and poo....then you wait for all your compatriots to get ready. Being a larger person, all plastic lawn furniture are dangerous.
david marden
2023-07-10 16:07:06 +0000 UTCTiffs amber drip … I’ve just had to stop walking the dog and find a tree to prop me up. 😂
Mark Winson-Pearce
2023-07-10 14:57:04 +0000 UTCLoved the face off stereo chat, carrying it round like a badge of honour, I had an expensive top of the range unit on my Renault 19 16v (with 6 disc boot changer!), went on holiday to Malta with this thing after driving to Gatwick and left the bloody head unit in the hotel room safe. Had to pay the hotel over £100 to post it back when I got home.
Graeme Smith
2023-07-10 11:07:05 +0000 UTCSmoking inside has been completely banned in Germany about the same time as it was in the UK. There were a few „smokers only“ bars that got round it. The had a „bouncer“ to explain that you must suck on cancerous vapor in said establishment. When I moved to France I had to have a tuberculosis test and they asked me how long I had smoked. As I had never smoked I was surprised. They said it looked like I had been smoking 3 packs a day. It was all passive smoke from father who at the time smoked…. 3 packs a day….
Andy Pinchock
2023-07-10 07:06:33 +0000 UTCThe Ampera's pedestrian horn is the perfect goodbye beep! Endless uses :)
Will Flack
2023-07-09 20:22:12 +0000 UTCRandom fact: The 2nd "k" in Kirkby Stephen is silent. I don't know why.
Phil Griffiths
2023-07-09 19:18:07 +0000 UTCJust did a search for 'find another' on eBay for cars, motorcycles and vehicles. found a 'Bomb on trailer', with the first line being "Where can you find another item like this!". It's actually a fuel tank from a Tornado.
Matt Tester
2023-07-09 18:45:07 +0000 UTCExcellent cast chaps. During last week's pod I was idly perusing the fine array of merch at SmithandSniff.com, and after your forlorn attempt at a sales pitch I thought I should "pull the trigger" on another t-shirt. The package duly arrived the other day and I was showing my wife the lovely crisp OTSOT t-shirt. "That came in quite a big box" she said. Ah well, I also have a bottle of Brut included. "Why?". Fortunately I was able to deploy the Smith and Sniff Encyclopaedia and in around 10 minutes with some historic clips and back story I think I just about managed to justify the purchase. I've yet to crack open the bottle, I think I will keep it for a special occasion.
Graham Dallas
2023-07-09 18:25:54 +0000 UTC
