Podcast 157 - Catching up on Miami Vice
Added 2023-04-30 17:00:14 +0000 UTCJust four decades late, Jonny has been watching a top American TV show. Also in this episode, a shameless plug for the next Smith and Sniff live show, bad smoking on television, going to the Sunday Scramble in a radio car, how your memory works (or doesn’t), wanting a Rolls-Royce Camargue, TV cops getting tangled in fly tipping, Phil Collins drumming on a trailer, Dutch police car strangeness, Paul Hollywood’s new car repair show The Great British Bodge Off, thoughts on the BMW Z8, owning a yellow car, browsing MG TFs, deceased spec SLKs, and Jonny’s perfect car has come up for sale.
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Comments
Richard, what's the name of the book about the brain you're reading?
Simon O
2023-05-04 22:53:11 +0000 UTCZ3 over SLK all day long.
TD
2023-05-04 12:45:35 +0000 UTCThe UK police tend to not flip the "specialist" vehicles on a regular basis. The Dutch one looks a little 'special' with the roof lights and some odd roof hatch.
Jon Turner
2023-05-04 07:12:38 +0000 UTCRichard you should do what I did, and get a thinking mans MX5, the trusty Toyota MR2 roadster. Go for the facelift with the 6 speed.
Gavin Wells
2023-05-03 10:12:31 +0000 UTCI think you'll find the correct description of the Rover P6 colour is 'calf shit brown'. That is what it is known as in our ex-dairy farming family
Thomas Cowley
2023-05-03 08:04:15 +0000 UTCHow about an SLK with "some questionable alterations to the interior" where the centre console has been carpeted around the buttons!?! http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202304156310204?atmobcid=soc3
Daniel Ferguson-Smith
2023-05-03 05:47:28 +0000 UTCI think Philip Morris still is the advertiser for Ferrari, they buy the whole car then sell off bits of it to other companies. If they aren't then it's only stopped really recently like in the last couple of years. What is a fun fact, ciggie companies profits went up significantly with the banning of tobacco advertising, just goes to show how much they must've been spending.
Stephen Voss
2023-05-02 23:23:28 +0000 UTCMy mother has an immaculate SLK200 Kompressor in proper old person spec. One owner, 48,000 miles, full history, air scarf, sat nav, electric seats, xenons - everything on the smallest engine they supplied. Not deceased spec because she’s very much alive and using it regularly. But if that changes I’ll post on here.
Ed Storer
2023-05-02 20:22:46 +0000 UTCMy personal favourite was the Marlboro name just as a barcode, the most passive aggressive advertising
Ross Hetherington
2023-05-02 17:05:57 +0000 UTCFun to hear this after accidentally buying an MGF during the weekend. A friend bought it a few weeks ago since it was for sale too close to his home, but had realised that one place can't fit three cars. It hasn't broken down yet and I have driven several kilometers already.
Lennart Mäkinen
2023-05-02 11:20:20 +0000 UTCI reckon the live show should be sponsored by tobacco companies, but in that late 90s F1 era where they couldn't directly mention the brands. On that live side of things is brought to you by 'Joan Playing Specials', 'Sick Cat', 'Roofmans' and 'Lumbago & Bumache'.
John Hammond
2023-05-02 06:42:16 +0000 UTCI'd like to formally request a supercut (eurobeat backing track optional) of interrupting the pod for background noise apologies. Gardeners, emergency vehicles, drilling fuckwits, drilling tortoises, warplanes, The Stopwatch.
Dave Long
2023-05-02 03:04:54 +0000 UTCNot sure tortoises can use a drill.
Daniel Smith
2023-05-01 22:20:56 +0000 UTCI have the Miami Vice boxset, all 49 discs or so that I ploughed through during lockdown. In one episode, possible season 2 or maybe 3, they go to the Miami Keys to a small village. I can only assume there was some sort of meet ongoing but the are at least a dozen DeLoreans in shot in this small coastal village.
Graham Dallas
2023-04-30 19:32:38 +0000 UTCRichard, you're a man after my own heart. All it took was the gloriously sunny Easter weekend last year for me to decide I needed to get myself back into an SLK. Before the weekend was out, a deal had been struck on a well cared for, low-mileage example - the fourth I've had.
Declan Berridge
2023-04-30 18:45:03 +0000 UTCYou guys do remember the Skoda TV advert with the cake Fabia, right? They 'made' rear light clusters from jelly.
Matt Tester
2023-04-30 18:42:39 +0000 UTCWith all due respect, John Taylor, *everything* changes when Des Barres is frontman for The Power Station in a Miami dive bar. So relieved that Robert P. was in the Seychelles or somewhere penning another masterpiece.
culturalsnow
2023-04-30 18:10:12 +0000 UTCBut do Bristol Council know what vaping is ;)
Nigel Hancock
2023-04-30 17:05:27 +0000 UTC
