Podcast 160 - Live from Bristol
Added 2023-05-21 17:00:03 +0000 UTCLast Friday night Jonny and Richard were in Britain's most '90s city for a live podcast recording. You probably knew that. Maybe you were there. If so, thanks ever so much for coming. If you weren't there, this is (some of) what happened.
No show notes this week because we're knackered from Friday night but here are a few links;
Don't forget, there are still tickets available for the second London live recording on Thursday 8 June. See here for details
The legendary guitarist falls off chair clip
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His private plate is PP07TSY
Tim C
2023-06-01 11:50:55 +0000 UTCIncredible info
Smith and Sniff
2023-06-01 10:39:56 +0000 UTCCelebrity car news. Paul Potts, winner of Britain’s Got Talent, drives a Peugeot 5008 which failed its MoT last week because the front tyres had insufficient tread depth at 1.4mm.
Tim C
2023-05-25 11:03:36 +0000 UTCAfter some (probably too much) thinking, I've decided that I need to build a scale replica of the Bristol Cars sign and set up controls to randomly have letters fail. Should be fun.
Matt Tester
2023-05-24 07:59:55 +0000 UTCIf memory serves, the plane in this case was an Embraer 170.
Smith and Sniff
2023-05-24 06:38:40 +0000 UTCThe Airbus A320 does have a 7/8 version - the A318/9! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family#Specifications
Peter Heamon
2023-05-23 18:04:57 +0000 UTCI only saw the Dodge based ones as Nottingham City Transport ran them in the village where I grew up. I couldn't comment on the driving experience but I do remember that all the interior panels used to rattle and vibrate, especially at idle.
Sam Houghton
2023-05-23 11:06:20 +0000 UTCThanks for a great evening! A few coincidences. 1.) I’ve owned both a 2CV and until recently a Saab 9-5 estate. What kind of face do I have? 2.) I live near the donkey sanctuary. 3.) Most interestingly, my secondary school in Leicester used to use Beaver Buses for the school runs. Weirdly one of their double decker’s had a full height mural across the back depicting what can only be described as a pouting semi-naked lady beaver and underneath their famous strap line ‘ride the beaver’. Class.
Stephen Robinson
2023-05-23 09:51:22 +0000 UTCThe Beaver was available on several different chassis' including the Iveco Daily, Mercedes 700/800 range and the Renault Dodge S-series. The Dodges were truly awful things to drive.
John Hammond
2023-05-23 08:48:23 +0000 UTCRe "grot mags in cars" story, many years ago I was helping my friend Jack find a decent used Honda Civic as his "new" car. One of the viewings was at the home of an Asian chap in Slough, and when we arrived we did the usual poking about under the bonnet, checking of panel gaps etc. When I opened the hatchback and lifted up the carpet to check the spare wheel / look for leaks or accident damage I was a bit surprised to see quite a large collection of "Asian Babe" magazines secreted under there. Being a man of the world, I made a bit of a joke of the situation, but the seller could only stand there looking shocked and said - "but this is my wife's car." We left him standing by the open boot, looking shocked, and went and found a nicer car elsewhere. I do wonder what the back story was, though...
Patrick Rennison
2023-05-23 07:37:47 +0000 UTCThe Bristol cars sign is now owned by Neil Clifford (often on the collecting cars podcast). He had it painstakingly restored by artisan craftsman… but also has a switch so he can choose whether it says BISTO ARS
Jason E
2023-05-23 06:11:18 +0000 UTCAnd believe it or not, S3E1 briefly featured a pissfister!
Declan Berridge
2023-05-22 20:50:45 +0000 UTCNeil Clifford off another podcast has the Bristol Cars signs an has them wired to do ars when required
Andy Waterman
2023-05-22 19:23:39 +0000 UTCSheffield had the first bendibuses in the UK, back in 1979. Five MANs which were followed by Danish built 'Leyland DAB' articulated buses delivered in the early 1980s (before the Beaver minibuses). They were the only such Leylands to be imported into the UK. One of the Leyland DABs exists in the grounds of a friend's place in Devon, but is far from roadworthy these days. https://sheffielder.net/2020/03/09/bendy-buses/
John Hammond
2023-05-22 17:33:25 +0000 UTCBack in the early 90's my dad worked for a company that built small buses as a subsidiary of Plaxton. They made one based on a Dodge Renault chassis and it was called the Reeves-Burgess Beaver! I suppose in Leicestershire you would have been able to "catch the Beaver-Beaver".
Sam Houghton
2023-05-22 17:29:47 +0000 UTCAny idea which other podcast they were talking about?
Simon Whittaker
2023-05-22 16:04:11 +0000 UTCThe donkey sanctuary actually holds classic car shows some years
Julian Hale
2023-05-22 15:50:16 +0000 UTCThe local Portland Oregon SAAB dealer is the same. Still selling used Saabs and new parts
david marden
2023-05-22 15:24:23 +0000 UTCI was always told it was because the 52 route they ran on went via Beaver Hill between Woodhouse and Handsworth. I went to Beaver Hill School.
John P
2023-05-22 09:35:55 +0000 UTCChallenge accepted! https://twitter.com/sniffpetrol/status/1660562920000958465?s=20
Smith and Sniff
2023-05-22 08:28:20 +0000 UTCThe 'Eager Beavers' got their name because the bodywork fitted onto the Dodge chassis was the Plaxton 'Beaver' design. https://flic.kr/p/eittC4
John Hammond
2023-05-22 07:46:21 +0000 UTCExcellent guys! Got me through my Sunday nightshifts.
Iain Nimmo
2023-05-22 05:29:21 +0000 UTCWe used to have Eager Beavers. They were effing useless. More like a minibus, which was really useful for the mass amount of kids who went to schools along the 10 mile route, the people who still had a job in Sheffield but utterly useless if you had a pram, were disabled or needed to carry a double handled Ikea bag. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t04822&prevUrl= It was after this cock up we decided bendibuses were the future. Opposite where that photo is taken was the Crazy Daisy where the Human League got it back together after the other two left to form BEF and Heaven 17.
John P
2023-05-22 04:31:48 +0000 UTCIt’s 90’s week, so you have to record it onto cassette tape if you want to listen to it offline. Don’t forget to pause it when you flip the tape!
Matt Tester
2023-05-21 23:42:22 +0000 UTCIN OR OUT!!!
Neil Gatley
2023-05-21 23:42:12 +0000 UTCI knew it sounded familiar, I do enjoy a Gorman story so it’s no wonder I latched on to these two flutes. Dave’s experiment with posting money is my favourite, to link with the Royal Mail chat.
Matt Tester
2023-05-21 23:41:04 +0000 UTCWow, probably one of funniest episodes ever. Great entertainment for someone suffering through a bout of COVID on that side of things. Thanks guys.
Mark Elliott
2023-05-21 22:08:23 +0000 UTCAs I said to Jonny in the interval, a Beaver is a type of bus. It was a minibus built by Plaxton on various mid range van chassis cowls. In Sheffield in the early 1990s they had Dodge minibuses with the Beaver body and they were branded as 'Eager Beavers'. https://madannie.smugmug.com/Buses/South-Yorkshire/Sheffield-in-the-1990s/i-n7dmLMW
John Hammond
2023-05-21 21:03:12 +0000 UTCThanks for a brilliant night guys. Sorry had to leave early as had to catch last train, should’ve driven!
Peter Viney
2023-05-21 20:43:01 +0000 UTCThere is usually a download link for the episode, but it's missing. Can you put a link up please Richard?
Firstdan2000
2023-05-21 20:12:12 +0000 UTCVery enjoyable evening, as always. The 2CV story reminded me of this Dave Gorman episode about finding and trying to dispose of a stash of mucky mags: https://youtu.be/5CjiQ11bSWc
Declan Berridge
2023-05-21 20:11:09 +0000 UTCGreat night, thanks again for taking your fantastic drivel out on tour!…. I made a schoolboy error when leaving, missed a turning & ended up in the ULEZ! -twat 🤣
Adam
2023-05-21 19:36:38 +0000 UTCFantastic evening guys - really good to see the nonsense live - surprised myself that the Levellers long sleeved t-shirt still fit
Jack Frear
2023-05-21 19:19:40 +0000 UTCThat sounded more feral than some of the previous ones, definitely a 90s vibe to it with the Royal Mail chat and all that. Brilliant.
Matt Tester
2023-05-21 19:04:57 +0000 UTCFantastic evening guys! My wife was quite pleased with the toilet arrangements being a rare breed at a car themed event #OTSOT
Ross Hetherington
2023-05-21 18:57:30 +0000 UTCExcellent stuff gents.
Graham Dallas
2023-05-21 18:31:51 +0000 UTCBetter than an evening with Peter Kay!!!
Steve Morton
2023-05-21 18:11:39 +0000 UTCI think a 90s Manc indie band version of the like and subscribe end tune.
John Hammond
2023-05-21 17:59:03 +0000 UTCBrilliant evening. Who had the E30 BMW estate and papped my Mk1 Twingo on North Street? 😂
John Hammond
2023-05-21 17:22:20 +0000 UTCSad to miss it! Hope you come back to the loose trouser capital soon
Aaron Gemmell
2023-05-21 17:21:18 +0000 UTCGreat evening - any chance of a trip-hop version of the theme?
Bruce Driffill
2023-05-21 17:12:49 +0000 UTCCracking evening, Glad Mr P liked my little rubber gift - (he wasn't kidding when he said that he would fit it first thing Saturday )
RICHARD COHEN
2023-05-21 17:04:17 +0000 UTC
