Podcast 162 - Sweary driving instructors and Tiff in a Suzuki Carry
Added 2023-06-04 17:00:04 +0000 UTCIn the second live recording from Bristol, Jonny and Richard answer audience questions. Topics covered include mid-life crisis cars, stealing road signs, Motley Crue’s last gig, One Life, Live it stickers, the origins of Choady Shifter, the idea car for reversing from Bristol to Whipsnade safari park, the Oasis swimming pool, features you’d like back on cars, clothes for a Woollarding photo shoot, your most ‘90s car, what you learnt to drive in, sweary driving instructors, what DJ Khalid would drive if he lived in Nottingham, Tiff Needell in a Suzuki Carry, Digby the biggest dog in the world, Clifford alarms, and a cable tie around a fluffy pillow.
Comments
Were they referring to piss Pfister? A really bad Bavarian baker?
Maurice Barnes
2023-06-15 14:52:03 +0000 UTCOn that driving instructor side of things, I had a friend who moved over to Spain a few years ago. Initially he was teaching English then moved into journalism, reporting for an ex-pat newpaper as well as writing for the English national press from time to time. When he moved, he had not yet learnt to drive, so found himself a bilingual driving instructor, as he was still learning Spanish. The instructor got into the car and told Matty, my mate, to drive off. There then followed an awkward conversation as Matty advised he hadn't a clue how to do so. The instructor explained the basics, and before long he was bunnyhopping and weaving down the road into the busy port town of Almeria. As you can imagine, within a short time he had picked up a train of traffic following him, and in true Latin style was getting a fair amount of stick from the drivers behind him. "What are you doing?!" asked the instructor. "I have no idea, what SHOULD I be doing?" Matty replied, thinking he was missing some obvious point of driving etiquette or similar. "Oh man..." the instructor replied, clearly exasperated "Give these fuckers the feeeenger!". And with that, his education was complete.
Snowy
2023-06-09 10:22:57 +0000 UTCAnother very enjoyable live episode. It brightened up my afternoon flight from Vienna to Paris CDG!!! Air travel is so over rated
Steve Morton
2023-06-08 19:35:18 +0000 UTCI think the t8 is the turbo and supercharged, on the v60 at least it is. I just got a t6 and I think it's turbo only but haven't really investigated on that side of things to be fair
26west
2023-06-07 16:10:23 +0000 UTCHey Rich, do you think "fizzy yoghurt" refers to a bad experience having bought one of those weird muller kefir yogurt drinks, mistakenly thinking it was a lovely Yop? I've made that mistake before on a meal deal once before... it wasnt pleasant. (Although the Kefir drinks in Turkey were somewhat passable).
Jon Hicken
2023-06-06 00:50:29 +0000 UTCAs a relative latecomer to driving (23 in '08) I Learned to drive in a Citroën C1. Me 6ft, driving instructor (Marcus, now has a VW camper selling brownies in Newquay) about 6ft 4 and burly. We must've looked like clowns getting out of a comedy small car. I burnt the clutch out of it doing hill starts on Petergate in Stamford (jonny probably knows it, that near vertical bit near The Jolly Brewer). He had to cancel a lesson last minute once as the previous learner rolled it off a fen road, the next week there was a noticeable dent in the roof and he'd lost his roof sign in a fen dyke.
Vincent Grey
2023-06-05 16:39:34 +0000 UTCAs with the air conditioning, I'm in Camp Jonny again about keep fit windows and power steering. All filed under 'unnecessary fripperies' in both cars (although as both are under 800kg - Citroen AX and Morris 8, I appreciate I have it easy...). I did own a Mk2 Golf GTD also without them, which was a pleasurable workout every time I drove it on the non-standard 15" Corrado Sebring wheels though.
Thom B.
2023-06-05 15:42:08 +0000 UTCMercedes 770K
Alistair Neish
2023-06-05 15:36:23 +0000 UTCMercedes 770K for highest numbered car?
Alistair Neish
2023-06-05 15:35:53 +0000 UTCOpen invitation to both Smith and Sniff to race my car. Mk1 Golf Cabriolet endurance Racer.
david marden
2023-06-05 15:33:02 +0000 UTCVolvo T6? 2.0 is turbo and supercharged. The one in the current XC90.
david marden
2023-06-05 15:13:13 +0000 UTCBest long distance reverser has to be a Daimler Armoured car (any model) because they’re preselector gearbox and has reverse in the transfer case so has 4 reverse gears so same performance. Also probably be alright in the case of a tank slapper incident
Jamie W
2023-06-05 13:27:45 +0000 UTCDrat. It's your rules so I guess the Minor Million is out
Stuart Richards
2023-06-05 13:23:32 +0000 UTCRight I'm going to have to cave in, hand in my man card, roll down the window and ask for directions. Can anyone tell me which episode includes the segment about driving off in the wrong Mini with the wrong stereo? I've been listening to old episodes hoping to find it but I'm having no luck. Cheers and thanks, OTSOT.
Matt Tester
2023-06-05 11:52:43 +0000 UTCTechnically a trim level rather than a model, surely?
Smith and Sniff
2023-06-05 11:42:19 +0000 UTCTop Crue fact: Mick Marrs, the guitarist for Motley Crue, has had ankylosing spondylitis since he was 17, so literally can't move. Which is why he looks like death and probably explains the heavy use of pharmaceutical products in his career
Vincent Grey
2023-06-05 11:15:31 +0000 UTCUnstallable error... In my early twenties my parents were away so to save the fuel in my civic coupe, (33mpg regardless if driven like fifty something or flute) I was using my parents Mk3 non turbo diesel golf. After a good snowfall I decided to use the carpark behind the house for research into the handling of the golf in adverse weather.... I found the golf prone to understeer unless the handbrake was applied and abs makes a bloody awful noise on ice.. My research was brought to an early conclusion when I got stuck. But remembering that diesels "can't be stalled" I thought I can get it unstuck in a Michael Knight helping KITT fashion. So I stuck it in first slowly let the clutch out and when the wheel was happily spinning I got out to push "KITT". Unfortunately getting to the back of the car proved precarious and I fell on my backside but I told KITT though my pretend watch intercom I was fine and would be soon pushing... This was when FUCKING KITT decided to leave me out of the mission found a bit of grip and started trundling forward. I decided not to ask him to stop via the watch and just get up and try and re-enter the vehicle however this was done with all the grace of bambi on ice or the Marshall at the 2011 Canadian GP. I Fell a few more times before managing to chamber back in depress the clutch and return KITT to manual control. Panic over and with calmness washing over me I could hear a gentle hand clap coming from one of our neighbours who as it turned out had watched both the research and the episode of ShiteRider.... Thanks for keeping me sane over the years and having your OTLOT In similar conditions at the carbarn last year!!
Alistair Neish
2023-06-05 09:05:56 +0000 UTCAnd my most 90s car was a Mk3 Fiesta with a Peco exhaust, Spax suspension and 'TSW Blade' alloy wheels.
John Hammond
2023-06-05 08:24:17 +0000 UTCI learnt to drive in the mid 1990s Corsa 'B', it really cemented by hatred of Vauxhalls. My driving instructor was the wonderful Ian McLoed of Stevenage who encouraged pretty much full chat everywhere. He did have a habit of flashing the headlights or tooting the horn if somebody upset him with their driving though. This bothered me because I always pointed out when they stopped at the next lights and got out, it was me in the driving seat getting a smack in the mouth.
John Hammond
2023-06-05 08:21:31 +0000 UTCBeat me to it. Surprised nobody in the audience called out!
Stuart Richards
2023-06-04 22:20:37 +0000 UTCNumerically largest car badge is surely the Minor Million? Eleventy times better than a Saab 9000.
Seth Kennedy
2023-06-04 20:30:12 +0000 UTCTurbo & supercharged … doesn’t Volvo have some newer models with this? Tiff vs. Ben vs. Monkey, I’d put my money on Ben as quickest by a hair over Tiff.
Ed Nicholson
2023-06-04 19:13:58 +0000 UTCBloody hell I remember going to see "Digby the biggest dog in the world" in Bristol when it first came out. I would have been 8
Nigel Hancock
2023-06-04 17:06:44 +0000 UTC
