Podcast 128 - JDM jeans and Her Majesty's hearse
Added 2022-10-02 17:00:07 +0000 UTCJonny remembers a bizarre gift from Japan and Richard has some information about the Queen’s final journey. Also in this episode, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles in trouble on the A1, amusing terms from footballing, DJs having their records nicked, Top Gear as an advert for bootcut jeans, the new BMW XM, Hyundai N Eurobeat, the bagpipes of You’re The Voice, the Ogmios School of Zen Motoring, arriving with fewer things than you set off with, and a chodey shifter update.
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I know I'm a bit late to the game, but catching up on the old stuff. I have a broken dolphin head unit - it's a Pioneer DEH6400r. It broke and moved on to a Sony MEX1HD (Clarkson's favourite). Both broken, both on a shelf my garage
Jon
2024-09-20 23:41:26 +0000 UTCWait until Jonny finds out the sample for 'youre the voice' is a closing car door.
Russell Rhodes
2024-09-15 02:54:50 +0000 UTCalice cooper's ls swapped citroen is worth a look https://www.generationhighoutput.com/1964-citroen-ds-with-custom-v8-ls1-swap/
Karl Moltrecht
2022-10-11 02:38:15 +0000 UTCMy late 80s Skoda 136 had a very long gear stick, so long that when in 3rd or 5th you couldn't adjust the stereo. I took a hacksaw to it and took off two inches. Interestingly it also had height adjustable seats, you had to literally unbolt it though at the four corners of the squab.
Maurice Barnes
2022-10-09 20:41:49 +0000 UTCA nice reference to Jonny's bed being run over by a Seddon Atkinson. The last trucks to carry this name were built in 2009, and were basically badge engineered Ivecos. Iveco had acquired Seddon Atkinson in 1990.
John Hammond
2022-10-08 20:59:52 +0000 UTCThe coach is a Scania, from the late 1990s or early 00s and I'm guessing the gearbox is either a Scania CAG (computer assisted gearbox) or the later Scania Opticruise system, both are semi automatic systems rather than a traditional preselect (where the gear lever is always set to the next desired gear rather than the engaged gear. )
John Hammond
2022-10-08 20:47:07 +0000 UTCWhy does it half way thru have no audio?
Matthew Geyer
2022-10-06 21:59:20 +0000 UTCI'm already getting a bit hooked on Ogmios the Zen driver. Damn.
Simon O
2022-10-06 20:25:52 +0000 UTCListening to the last couple of podcasts has been very strange for me. I am on the same collision course as Richard. I too bought a panda and hadn’t told my fiancée. (Panda 4x4 classic). I went to view the car a few weeks ago and bought it within the week. I had it delivered to my unit where I work, and had it sat under a cover ever since. I told all my friends as I was so excited about it. A 1.0 fire engine from an uno came up as free on a forum. I was due to go to Barcelona the following day, so I hitched up my trailer after work and went to pick it up (45 mins away). I got stuck in traffic on the way home and couldn’t drop it back to my unit, and so was forced to give up the information when I pulled up home with an engine on the trailer just a few minutes before we were due to leave. Had a great holiday but I did hear about it for quite a while. Safe to say I’m keeping it 😂😂
Barney Aldridge
2022-10-06 12:18:14 +0000 UTCAmazing story!
Smith and Sniff
2022-10-06 09:06:03 +0000 UTCBrilliant story, John! Love it! Primo (or Prem as I shall now be calling him) was and is nothing but class.
Rupert Procter
2022-10-05 08:21:45 +0000 UTCMy wife's father is a driver at Buckingham palace I have asked him if he knows what motor was in the hearse he said he thinks it was a diesel he didn't get close enough to it but the he did get close enough to the hearse they used for rehearsal and that was a diesel so he assumes the state hearse is the same
Brad Scott
2022-10-04 09:21:39 +0000 UTCA story about lost records. DJ Premier, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Premier We had him booked to come and do a DJ set in the venue I worked in at the time. Now if you are into proper hip-hop and know who he is it was a big deal. He turns up at the venue and his manager says his vinyl is impounded at Heathrow. Bugger says I and the promotor but being a bit of the generation that invented hip-hop we knew all the local hip-hop vinyl DJs and collectors. A few phone calls and texts later after explaining the situation we have a line of 7 or 8 people clutching their precious 12 inches on that side of things. DJ Prem as his close personal friends call him spend the next 2 hours going HOW THE FUCK HAVE YOU GOT THIS and THIS MIX WAS ONLY A RUMOUR. A pick and mix. The show was unbelievable. He had no choice but to do a new set with the tools he had and stormed it. At the time he thought it was the best thing ever and took him out of the comfort zone and he promised to do it again. https://youtu.be/U76Nde6rMTw
John P
2022-10-04 02:49:21 +0000 UTCI was trying to work out whether they were dark purple or black, but appearing dark purple on my mate’s TV
Ed Storer
2022-10-03 11:42:39 +0000 UTCEach time you mention 90s raving, Jungle and/or Drum n Bass you can't wipe the smile off my face. With this in mind, I once made a rave flyer for car tragics after hearing you mention the genre on one of the podcasts a few years ago https://imgur.com/JvU4oCQ More mentions of 90s raving would be well received. On that side of things, for a couple of years I've been wanting to gather together photos of cars parked at illegal heyday raves, but clearly that's a project for box marked 'will never get around to doing'.
Rupert Procter
2022-10-03 10:08:27 +0000 UTCJonny, do you think maybe someone threw your daughter's bed in the hedge because it was blocking the road?
Panda
2022-10-03 08:06:44 +0000 UTCYeah I would say 'You're the voice' is definitely an iconic and loved song but maybe not quite unofficial anthem status.
Steve Ktori
2022-10-03 04:32:12 +0000 UTCAs an Australian, I can confirm our affinity with "Your the voice". We also seem to adore "it's a long way to the top" (some bagpipes) and working class man (no bag pipes) when in a public setting. I believe its because our national anthem is absolute toss. It's lyricly pathetic and the music is uninspiring at best. I think maybe twenty percent of our population know the words. And because it was only adopted it 1974 (in place of God save the Queen) It doesn't even have any traditional or historical value. So at a sporting match you are much more likely to hear bogan's and the well healed belting out "your the voice" in out of tune unison, then our own national anthem.
James Paterson
2022-10-02 21:13:05 +0000 UTCAlways nice to slip a Hispano Suiza reference in. Waiting for a Giddy...
Sean Hamerton
2022-10-02 20:40:25 +0000 UTCWhy would you just fill a roof box with loose clothes and not have them in a bag in the box?
Sean Hamerton
2022-10-02 20:35:29 +0000 UTCI stumbled across Ogmios some time ago but had totally forgotten about him so i really appreciate the reminder. I am going to watch some now, they are genius.
Adam Clark
2022-10-02 20:22:19 +0000 UTCCant wait to listen to this at work tomorrow
Adam
2022-10-02 18:47:58 +0000 UTCOK usually I click the .mp3 link and it downloads only now it opens in ear splitting volume without the option to save?
Nigel Hancock
2022-10-02 18:40:52 +0000 UTCGreat podcast - on the Royal cars thing - I thought the new Range Rovers they used were an interesting a stylish colour
AL Dickens
2022-10-02 17:55:28 +0000 UTCVery Zen without the audio. 🤣
Calum Fraser
2022-10-02 17:12:08 +0000 UTCOoops. Try now.
Smith and Sniff
2022-10-02 17:11:13 +0000 UTCWhere’s the pod you flutes 🤣
Ben Aston
2022-10-02 17:11:10 +0000 UTCThere’s no audio ?
Joe Brudenell
2022-10-02 17:06:22 +0000 UTC
