Show notes 124
Added 2022-09-04 17:01:04 +0000 UTCWe lead this week with the knackered Metro pub sign spotted by a listener, followed by the deceased/OAP spec Audi Coupe spotted by another listener. (Thanks to Joe Brudenell and Neil Rapsey respectively). Then we have The Sensational Alex Harvey Band with a textbook multiple feet on monitors demonstration, the don of foot on bumper stance, William Woollard, and an amazing photo of an actual rock god doing an apparent Woollard impression. Finally, we have a Simson Schwalbe like the one our listener Malte rode during his comedy waving incident. Now, some links…
The ockshun listing for Diana’s Escort RS Turbo - https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa080-lot-18728-the-diana-princess-of-wales-1985-ford-escort-rs-turbo-s1
Details of the sale - https://www.goodwood.com/grr/road/news/2022/8/princess-dianas-ford-escort-rs-just-sold-for-722500/
Richard was misremembering 1 - Bruno Sacco actually said the W140 S-Class was four inches too tall - https://www.motortrend.com/news/mercedes-benz-bruno-sacco/
Richard was misremembering 2 - It was Liverpool v Newcastle that was cancelled in the wake of Diana’s death - https://twitter.com/telescoper/status/1564995790464061445?s=20&t=ba4HgPcDYLTNLICLBieb8A
Comments
That Metro is up the road from me. I drove past it the other day. When I heard it on the podcast I thought that sounds like the one I saw. Yep it is. I used to work at ICI (Terram). Made me laugh a lot 😂🤣
MartyT4
2022-09-30 18:40:34 +0000 UTCI think some musicians nowadays have footstands to substitute the old monitors, just for posing. For example John Petrucci of Dream Theater... Also interesting... some of the stacks seen on stages are fake, or have nothing connected to them for the same reason mentioned above. You want to keep the stage volume low and just use in ear monitors
Dieter Lottmann
2022-09-14 13:11:15 +0000 UTCOnly just caught this episode, I was astonished to hear that someone had spotted my Cromer Pier sticker. I was given two stickers at Goodwood and knew that I had to put one in pride of place!
Jack Tibble
2022-09-11 18:07:25 +0000 UTCThe Metro pub ad, must be more out there. And remember the Liverpool v Newcastle game being cancelled after Diana. A mate argued with someone in the pub that day it should go ahead as had been 4-3 the past 2 seasons. On the W140 used to see a scruffy S500 in Ealing years back used by a property developer to lug building materials, sagging made it look like it might have dead bodies in the boot.
andrew philbey
2022-09-10 06:30:39 +0000 UTCBring back Woollarding.
TD
2022-09-08 08:21:48 +0000 UTCGood to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Band featured, saw them live a few times in the 70’s. These days his shows would be PG or R rated!!! Great music
Steve Morton
2022-09-07 07:34:56 +0000 UTCHow did episode 124 pass with references to Bruno Sacco and the W140 Benz but no mention of the W124 Benz?
Battles
2022-09-06 23:14:48 +0000 UTCScales on cars in BC, so anything in the 150K range (911 S cab) you pay an additional 20%!
Brendan McAleer
2022-09-06 20:21:02 +0000 UTCI can confirm Canada also has a wide range of Post-Selection Tax (aka PST or provincial sales tax) surprises! depending upon the province or territory you live in and it is so bloody annoying! it applies to everything from pencils to cars!
Michael k-b
2022-09-06 19:36:59 +0000 UTCi had to grin a little at Jonny's mixing up of monitors and marshall stacks, the average monitor is about a foot high, a Marshall stack is about 5 feet high so attempting to get your foot on top of it for a solo would probably put all but the most flexible musicians in hospital with a rather nasty groin strain!
Matthew Powell
2022-09-06 11:35:54 +0000 UTCI am going to wales next month for a family holiday in my Morris minor, if I can convince the other half I will get a photo of my moggy next to the clapped out Metro for you chaps. OTSOT there is a Morris minor which is used as a dominoes advert in St Austell https://goo.gl/maps/KW6jZeLDitAWUbbH6
Harry Richmond
2022-09-06 10:33:56 +0000 UTCHere is the google maps link to where the Metro is, it is not on the streetview photo as it is dated 2011 and the Metro was probably in pristine condition then :-), btw loved you both trying to pronounce Mamhilad (close to where I grew up) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7247386,-3.0074194,3a,75y,187.15h,85.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfCOz7GrqSK6kAta2TpK0FA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Gareth Thomas
2022-09-06 08:58:20 +0000 UTCI drive very close to that Metro every day on my commute. Reg number F372AHC. MOT expired 2012, tax disc in window 2008. Advert cars are popular around here, and it could have been a victim of turf wars, or just too expensive to tax, as there are smart fortwos on the nearest roundabouts now. I think it may be salvageable without too much effort. Great FOTU car next year?
Mark Morgan
2022-09-06 08:13:49 +0000 UTCI understand the bidder who won the car was from Cheshire and outgunned a rival from Dubai ! As a Cheshire resident its good to know we successfully compete with Dubai for displays of utterly meaningless and crass displays of ways to spaff cash !!! The small market town of Knutsford now boasts an Overfinch dealer (used to be Mclaren) a brand that appears to largely cater for people who think that a Land Rover or Range Rover is just too darn cheap and what it really needs is a £30 Halfords body kit priced up at somewhere around an additional £30k
AL Dickens
2022-09-06 06:16:45 +0000 UTCThere were three Escort RS Turbos built in black: one for Princess Di, one as an SO14 decoy car, and a third for Sir Jocelyn Stevens off of British Newspapers OTSOT. It was reportedly quite the faff to make them as the bodykits came pre-painted from an outside supplier, so Fowrdsahhh had to do a special deal with them. Somewhat depressingly, the former owner of this car sold it off along with 26 other Ford RS models, and now has a bunch of frankly less-interesting modern supercars: Veyron, Chiron and so on.
Brendan McAleer
2022-09-05 23:03:11 +0000 UTCPerhaps an episode on unlikely special editions? Probably not official but I offer, seen in rural South Island New Zealand, the Ferrari S-Cargo https://flic.kr/p/9uZG6u
Robin Capper
2022-09-05 19:25:51 +0000 UTCThat's got to be Cy Turner of Cotic Bikes suggesting rat boy was the no name full suspension mountain bike guy....
Rob_J_B
2022-09-05 15:33:08 +0000 UTCI believe nowadays virtually all professional musicians use in-ear monitors, so the days of splaying out the twig and berries with one foot on the monitor are probably over. The volume necessary to allow musicians to clearly hear onstage monitors is one of the major causes of hearing loss in musicians, whereas in ear monitors allow them to hear clearly while actually protecting their hearing from the sound of onstage amps and drums.
Anthony Edwards
2022-09-05 15:22:51 +0000 UTCI’ve just put my car through a grass mound from laughing too hard at Woollarding 😂
Grampian Glider
2022-09-05 14:22:14 +0000 UTC"Wanking the axe" is an instant classic.
Phil R
2022-09-05 12:39:51 +0000 UTCTwo more from them later… 🤣
Paul Sheward
2022-09-05 10:43:18 +0000 UTCCan confirm a trip to the Flute will be a solid Indian. A Volvo v70 of a curry.
Leigh Wild
2022-09-05 10:39:40 +0000 UTC£722,500 is nuts.
Andrew Jones
2022-09-05 10:32:21 +0000 UTCThe first Chicken Poo Bingo Peel session was a classic
Marc Phillipps
2022-09-05 10:05:58 +0000 UTCThat metro is disturbing
Matt Chatterley
2022-09-05 07:10:47 +0000 UTCMojo Nixon & Skid Roper did a song explaining it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4KhW_MIOk&list=RDkE4KhW_MIOk&start_radio=1
Stephen Voss
2022-09-05 06:42:45 +0000 UTCGood god. The Metro/Pub appears to be advertising a family fun day featuring Chicken Poo Bingo!!! WTF is that all about?!? 😳 https://m.facebook.com/231083363594183/photos/a.743354775700370/5326260304076438/?type=3&source=48
Paul Sheward
2022-09-04 22:02:15 +0000 UTCThat Metro/Pub is on the same road where I saw those two Panda 100hp's...just saying...
Owain Kelly
2022-09-04 21:10:21 +0000 UTCAh, so it was called Woollarding before it was known as The Riker Manoeuvre. Did Woollard have a back injury?
Firstdan2000
2022-09-04 19:26:40 +0000 UTCThe guy getting into his car next to the Audi! Perhaps the crappest fitting car seat cover ever!
david price
2022-09-04 18:17:43 +0000 UTCAlways thought one leg up on the Marshall was Slashing! Slash was the king of that!
david price
2022-09-04 18:16:10 +0000 UTCGod that Audi looks good
Chris Taylor
2022-09-04 17:40:54 +0000 UTC
