Podcast 151 - Aggressively driven Ford STs
Added 2023-03-19 12:40:01 +0000 UTCJonny has been car spotting in a dismal British seaside town. Also in this episode, 1920s motorcycle speed record stance, an algae-covered Ford Ranger, weak car game at a model village, turntable disaster in a floating nightclub, Veyron versus Hyundai Equus on the streets of Geneva, spotting a new off-brand energy drink, the bizarre story of Four Loko, fishing mishaps, using lingo with builders, easing into nicknames, the nightmare of running a road salt depot when you collect 1970s Italian cars, a listener’s story about a straight piped slow ‘ped guy, an inexplicable Toyota Soarer driveway burnout, collecting paraphernalia for cars you own, and a prize draw to win the Queen’s X-Type.
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In college we had a '69 Cadillac hearse... used it at American Footbal games for "tailgating"... the slab you pull out made for a great buffet.... Yes... we did get odd looks...
Andy Pinchock
2023-03-21 13:29:28 +0000 UTCI nearly swerved off the road laughing at the 'Jonny Briggs' tromboning. I could hear it in my mind before Richard started doing it. That theme is such a piece of earworm music. I've recently been studying stuff around Trade Plates as part of a transport management exam. The use of the plates can be for demonstration of a vehicle, in which case you can carry either passengers or cargo for the purposes of 'demonstration'. You cannot however carry passengers or cargo for any kind of hire or reward basis. Therefore in theory the hearse could be demonstrated to undertakers and a coffin could be carried as a demonstration of the loading arrangements. However if you fill it with a corpse and the deceased's nearest and dearest that would be stretching the point of 'demonstration' somewhat. If you accepted money it would be for 'hire and reward' and then the use of trade plates would be illegal. On the subject of odd/shit hearses, Richard did you get the picture of the Talbot Alpine hearse I emailed over a few weeks back?
John Hammond
2023-03-21 09:11:51 +0000 UTCreally good work here....#151 has many laughs
Karl Moltrecht
2023-03-21 02:28:34 +0000 UTCAs I was browsing on "Bezos Boutique" while listening, you can get 4 Loko there, only 8.5% mind. Scheherazade was my first favourite classical, should have played it in the i7 on that 40 speaker system but I doubt it had a single DIN Blaupunkt to take the tape, shame. Biggest trades chat faux pas is to call the hot water cylinder a tank.
Maurice Barnes
2023-03-20 21:40:26 +0000 UTCI reckon a video for these two should be getting a few boxes of Bucky and delivering it to Glasgow in a drift spec soarer
Leigh Wild
2023-03-20 18:27:40 +0000 UTCYes my first thought was of Buckfast, fortified wine with caffeine. As they say "Buckfast gets you fucked fast".
Ben Oliver
2023-03-20 18:05:44 +0000 UTCAmerican here. Never tried Four Loco. But I was once given Mallort at an amateur cyclocross event. It’s popular with bike messengers for some reason 🤷🏽♂️
Jeffrey Smith
2023-03-20 15:09:10 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Four Loko, if any Americans are missing it, try Buckfast… made in Devon, loved in Glasgow. Affectionately known as “Wreck the hooce jooce”. A true delicacy.
Leigh Wild
2023-03-20 10:08:38 +0000 UTCWith the Four Loko discussion - it featured in the classic Epic Meal Time Chili Four Loko video, before the channel went a bit rubbish. An essential watch if you want to see a man drinking Four Loko from a cup made out of bacon and then eating a ridiculously hot chili with a paddle.
James Thorburn
2023-03-20 09:53:26 +0000 UTCAs a Fiesta ST owner I cannot deny or confirm that it's driven unnecessarily aggressively sometimes and that it's a bit lower than is perhaps practical. What I can confirm is that as soon as I bought it and started driving it to work, a lot of people started unnecessarily agreesively driving around me compared to when I had my previous car, a MK6 Golf GTI.
Julian Hale
2023-03-19 22:22:55 +0000 UTCAs soon as you started to describe the seaside town, I started to think it sounded a bit Yarmouth… It makes me embarrassed to be from Norfolk. Amusingly, it’s now got those noise triggered speed cameras along the seafront so there’s less tromboning now than there was before….
René Soufflé
2023-03-19 20:48:47 +0000 UTCJust to say undertakers are regular users of people carriers as private hearses and it is not unknown for people to chose them for funerals when they are on a budget.
Robin White
2023-03-19 20:40:34 +0000 UTCI could tell that the downtrodden seaside town was Yarmouth even before seeing the picture, nearby Gorleston is much nicer. I was in Yarmouth when they had a car show on last year, you can imagine the tromboning that was going on there. I saw a mint Mk3 Supra though and they had a plane engine on a trailer to deafen everyone, steam rally spec.
Matt Tester
2023-03-19 20:28:24 +0000 UTCSame as Wayne I thought it was Monday, it the attention to detail that brings me back again and again otsot
Vincent McDonnell
2023-03-19 15:02:13 +0000 UTCBut you’re always so organised Richard…. 😉
Martin Laver
2023-03-19 13:01:09 +0000 UTCExplains the surprise Spotify notification earlier. Great show as usual, brightened up this mornings dog walk!
William Moses
2023-03-19 12:44:04 +0000 UTCI saw that on TheDrive this morning, early Japanese example, certainly “unique”!
William Moses
2023-03-19 12:43:02 +0000 UTCWhen that notification popped up earlier, my heart sank thinking it was Monday morning!
Wayne Brook
2023-03-19 12:42:39 +0000 UTCOn the subject of odd hearses. I submit this bizarre Nissan Leaf creation, OTSOT. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/885917262662869/
Tom Lock
2023-03-19 12:41:56 +0000 UTC
