Podcast 126 - Maximum Pagani
Added 2022-09-18 17:00:05 +0000 UTCManaging to stick to cars for once, Jonny and Richard discuss the new Pagani Utopia.
Also in this episode, living in a VW Caddy California, ongoing badger problems, plaintive security guards, guerrilla stickering, a trip to Telford to collect a V6, moving to Japan when you don’t speak Japanese, the usefulness of engine cranes, trying to make your house nice, a brief stop in book review corner, apologies for the Fiat Uno song, trying to get Jonny’s dad to buy a Citroen C6, getting surprised by cars you don’t recognise, and the thinness of laptops as expressed in different eras of David Bowie.
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It is on YT starting here https://youtu.be/x78rLtMPrHg
Steve Morton
2022-09-23 19:40:45 +0000 UTCDare I own up to being one of the crowd of 'yuths' that sat in cars behind aforementioned council building... mopeds made a regular appearance too.
Remoc
2022-09-21 05:15:44 +0000 UTCJust to add, apparently he has had done this mod to his (presumably)S-Classes for the last 30 to 40 years…
#lescolsdesalpes
2022-09-20 17:44:24 +0000 UTCOn the topic of the reversed passenger seat: German textile entrepreneur Wolfgang Krupp just had his new EQS converted to “unable-to-open-passenger-door-due-to-minor-accident-and do-something-clever-spec”: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/elektroauto/mercedes-eqs-mit-sonder-sitz-trigema-chef-sitzt-anders/
#lescolsdesalpes
2022-09-20 17:38:07 +0000 UTCCouple of stories regarding inappropriate sticker placement painting on cars. The painter who did Roger daltrey’s ‘The Who’ themed split screen campervan, was not the biggest fan of the van/band and painted ‘fuck off roger’ under the side sill. The other which I’m sure is better known is the body shop sprayer at TVR who always stencilled Gary numans face on the cars he sprayed, other things found sprayed inside TVR Cerbs include meat flutes.
Rich
2022-09-20 16:31:00 +0000 UTCAlexei Sayle is a big fan of the C6, he wrote about it in his motoring column in the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/columnists/9176095/Alexei-Sayle-what-your-car-says-about-you.html. He still had it when he visited our local arts centre in 2016.
Dave Smith
2022-09-20 16:10:34 +0000 UTCJonny you realise we all need a Late Brake Show video of the Princess now, please!
Panda
2022-09-20 09:10:46 +0000 UTC@Jonny the gearbox on the new Paganini appears from the photos to be fundamentally the same as the Xtrac gearbox that was all new for the Huayra BC & Roadster. I know a bit about it as I led the design team of the gearbox at the time. It is a conventional road car box with synchromesh and helical gears but arranged transversally like the original McLaren F1. There is a single dry clutch at the front and in the Huayra it operated exclusively as an AMT using a third party hydraulic automated shift system operating the gearbox shifting mechanism in place of a manual linkage. It should therefore have been relatively straightforward for Pagani to offer a manual version at some point in the future. I’m interested to see if the manual version has a dog leg 1st gear or not, as that is the natural gear and shifter arrangement in the AMT version.
Chris Cholmeley
2022-09-20 07:08:57 +0000 UTCAt the first indycar race in Portland in about 10 years our little race series (Lucky Dog) they took down our billboard that was right in the TV picture. In response the race marshals did a guerrilla sticker placement all over the back of the brake markers on track. The race organization was very cross.😜
david marden
2022-09-19 13:22:49 +0000 UTCWhen a barmy housemate of mine came home with a 1973 Toyota Corona, with the intention of turning it into a drift machine we were left with the need for an engine crane. We improvised by raiding the garage of the house which was full of the landlords junk. Our weapon of choice was a mobile mobility hoist intended for lifting elderly people in and out of bed with. It did the job perfectly despite the 150kg safe limit being well exceeded by the weight of the Toyota lump.
John Hammond
2022-09-19 09:54:52 +0000 UTCSquashing a xmas tree against a convex glass wins over any normal practicality considerations. Hence C6 beats a convertible golf
Sergey Baskakov
2022-09-19 00:39:26 +0000 UTCWow, the Queen is dead? Surely it would have been on the news?
David Carss
2022-09-18 21:37:14 +0000 UTCI guess it’s out on YouTube as well as here tonight because most people are going to be tied up watching the funeral of the Queen tomorrow.
Steve Morton
2022-09-18 20:51:09 +0000 UTC🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Chris Jarrett
2022-09-18 19:37:56 +0000 UTCThat was going to be my guess too ... my 95 XJR had that.
Ed Nicholson
2022-09-18 18:57:48 +0000 UTCI realised this while watching that video of Hammond driving it. Bah! Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-09-18 18:46:33 +0000 UTCRichard, it was your XJ that had a semi timbered steering wheel!
Jamie Crane
2022-09-18 18:35:33 +0000 UTC"Sacrificial Softwood" ... another John Peel Session band?
Ed Nicholson
2022-09-18 18:06:29 +0000 UTCBut very soon you'll get the video of the Malvern live show and the normals won't so swings and roundabouts.
Smith and Sniff
2022-09-18 17:32:33 +0000 UTCCan’t believe you let the non-Patreon peasants listen to this at the same time as us. Disgusting.
David Carss
2022-09-18 17:29:20 +0000 UTCI loved in Japan for three years. I don’t speak Japanese. Easy! Ish
Matthew Pointon
2022-09-18 17:02:07 +0000 UTC
