Podcast 142 - I'm in love with a Czech police car
Added 2023-01-15 18:00:04 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard fall in love with an old Tatra coming up for auction.
Also in this episode, 1980s mullet strakes, BMW no longer selling cars to the police, what went on at the Sunday Scramble, a Lotus Elite with a powerful interior, the Toyota Aygo X, disappointment with the VW ID. Buzz, a moment of mourning for the Up GTI, Lego car frustration, the disappearance of the hula skirt on coaches, Harry Metcalfe arriving at Bicester Heritage in a uncontrollable home-made hovercraft, and why do American cars & coffee meets always start far too early?
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Richard, Jonny - just wanted to say what a brilliant episode that was. I was listening to it on a plane back home after loads of wasted travel time and a stressy work trip with crap weather delayed plane etc. I was in a grumpy mood. But 5 minutes of mullet conversation had me laughing out loud. I’m sure people were looking at me weirdly but I don’t care. Love the podcasts and I signed up to Patreon straight after we landed! Taxi upgrade and I’m Currently in the smooth S class taxi home. Nice.
Richard Norgate
2023-01-25 21:03:11 +0000 UTCLove the Jethro quote at the end!
Kevin Bird
2023-01-18 21:06:12 +0000 UTCRegarding BMW Holy engines! It's worse than what you have revealed, the linked video explains the charlatan; nay criminal, activities being undertaken by police disposal agencies/police transport bods.... Clocking un MOT...eed police cars before auction, 100k miles wiped off shagged police cars https://youtu.be/YEryJeBcg-8 Oh someone else has referenced this, but it needs investigating.....c'mon you two Batman and Robin of the car pod world...
Paul Fargher
2023-01-17 11:23:26 +0000 UTCFor Australians, the Platonic ideal of mullets belongs to Iva Davies of 1987-era Icehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oub0EXnOdhM
Stuart Baly
2023-01-17 10:22:18 +0000 UTCList of things to do: Win the Tatra, have it repainted black. Drive it to the Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam on a dark frosty morning. Find a 1973 Opel Rekord and park it on the Wannsee side facing each other. Oh and find the money to finance Cold War roleplay.
John Hammond
2023-01-17 09:52:46 +0000 UTCI think the angry Renault is an R8?
Dino
2023-01-16 23:32:29 +0000 UTCThe creators and creation of Elite are profiled in a chapter of the book Backroom Boys, recommended. IIRC they used random number generation in the code to spawn galaxies so theoretically infinite in scope.
Jim Galbraith
2023-01-16 22:48:00 +0000 UTCI spent ages as a teenager trying to get to elite status. During the lockdown I did hardly anything other than play elite dangerous. Haven’t played since though 🤔
Phil Town
2023-01-16 17:33:55 +0000 UTC"Czech police car" has the same number of syllables as "starship trooper". There's a Sarah Brightman remix waiting to happen.
Charles Tao
2023-01-16 16:58:58 +0000 UTCI just can't get over Toyota naming the car "I go cross". Someone there is probably quite proud of himself for that
Simon O
2023-01-16 14:46:59 +0000 UTCOn the topic of Mudflaps... Give this a watch 😂 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cljh6G4MJNL/
Chris Colouryum
2023-01-16 13:14:37 +0000 UTCMy wife has an Ioniq 5. Great car all round. So spacious. Sound system (Bose-branded) is dogshit as is the Hyundai Bluelink app. Touchscreen a bit slow to get going in the morning. But so much better than the VW system. So I’d have the Hyundai. In fact, we do!
Ed Storer
2023-01-16 12:14:43 +0000 UTCThe cast gets cut short right at the end so no after credits banter, one of my favourite bits😭. Had me chuckling all the way to work, thanks guys 👍🏻
Chris Jarrett
2023-01-16 10:21:55 +0000 UTCI love the stupidly expensive Lego sets - I don’t expect a replica of the donor vehicle, but a Lego representation, weird bumps and all. Plus, the engineering underneath - engine, crank, pistons, the little diff. Don’t knock it! And also donate some sets to me for evaluation purposes.
Jeremy Cheah
2023-01-16 08:57:26 +0000 UTCElite....terrible waste of electrons.... Boring beyond belief..... Galaxian...now your talking! 30 BMW with holed engines at Brightwells still for sale.... More every month....cheap deals if you can source engines.
Paul Fargher
2023-01-16 08:43:28 +0000 UTCAs someone who has been attending American cars and coffee events for 20 plus years now, I’ve got 3 things to tell you about why these events start nearly the night before, at least the Southern California ones… First reason being one of the sort of original cars and coffee’s was born out of an event in Huntington Beach called donut derelicts, where local hot rod and muscle car enthusiasts would gather pre dawn in the donut shop parking lot, socializing for a couple hours while consuming large quantities of donuts and coffee, then dispersing because the other shops in the complex would begin opening for business around 9am and required the parking area for their normal customers to park their boring cars. The second reason is a result of the popularity of the events as they grew over the years, at one point a gathering known as crystal cove had so many people attending there would be two lanes of cars backed up for a quarter of a mile on pacific coast highway waiting to get into the parking area and claim their spot, if you weren’t in line by 6.30am you probably wouldn’t find a spot, and eventually this show was shut down and patrons moved on to a more welcoming venue, where the actual term “Cars and Coffee” was coined by Freeman Thomas and John Clinard who at the time were part of Ford PAG group in Irvine, California. With their leadership powered by Ford, a huge parking lot for hundreds of cars was provided on a weekly basis, as well as local police support which was paid for by Ford. And before long it was such a popular event, manufacturers would bring concept show cars and new models to showcase and if you weren’t on site with your car by 7am or so you probably weren’t going to find a spot, unless you were lucky enough to have a car that qualified for a reserved spot in a special curated display for that Saturday, then you could show up fashionably late and be showered with car lovers affections….eventually this event which was in my opinion the pinnacle of “C and C” events was brought to end, For the same reason as most of these events, that small percentage of the disrespectful car enthusiast morons who think they can drive but actually can’t really and reek havoc when exiting the parking lot, sometimes ending up spinning round to the wrong side of the road up onto a curb, a sidewalk or grassy knoll of some kind just missing the crowds of fanboy photogs documenting it all for the gram… The third reason is that most of these patrons who actually bring cool cars are really old guys who for some reason can’t be bothered with sleeping in on any day of the week. But I really believe the main motive for all the super early morning C and C’s attendees, is simply a fear of missing out. I rarely put the effort in to be there early with a special car these days, it’s a much nicer Saturday morning when I show up past 8am with the dog and have a late breakfast with my car friends or comment lengthy nonsense as a patreon patron to a silly podcast for the first time….
Dino
2023-01-15 21:20:17 +0000 UTCThere was a tatra being imported into the UK in the early 90's. I recall the TG write up said it could knock squirrels out of a tree with its lights at 500m and the heating could be preprogrammed 7 days in advance. I ended up behind it in a traffic jam on the A34 while I was in my Skoda 136 and had a chance to chat to the guy who was importing them.
Maurice Barnes
2023-01-15 19:43:53 +0000 UTCOn the topic of early aero-shaped cars, don't forget the Chrysler Airflow from the mid 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Airflow But I agree that a Tatra is way cooler than just about anything from that time.
Ed Nicholson
2023-01-15 19:35:55 +0000 UTCGuys. I came across a follow up story about the BMW Police cars and the sad story about a Police officer that lost his life in one of these cars when it caught fire PC Nick Dumphreys: Faulty police car decision too late, widow says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-64283859 Also was the ‘angry looking Renault’ a Renault 16?
Steve Morton
2023-01-15 18:39:23 +0000 UTCI was a producer on the rebooted version of the Elite games, Elite Dangerous, a few years ago and helped bring the game to the PS4! The studio (started and run by one of the 2 original developers for Elite) has made all sorts of titles including an F1 management game that I worked on.
Lloyd Morgan - Moore
2023-01-15 18:19:10 +0000 UTC
