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Added 2022-08-28 17:01:04 +0000 UTCHello again, and here we go with this week’s Patreon bonus material. We start, of course, with the amazing Freddie Mercury jacket tribute Jeep. Then we move on to some of Richard’s highlights from Radwood, a man trying to mend a Grand California fridge, and Keith Moon’s nutty house. And, of course, some links…
Richard was right, there is an MMA platform. It’s by Mercedes - https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/mercedes-debut-ev-focused-mma-platform-entry-luxury-models-2024
The French drain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain
Eaton Socon is a real place - https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/bedfordshire/az/eaton-socon.htm
DJ Khaled being a flute in a Maybach - https://youtu.be/t66MeDJjqe0
Keith Moon’s house, Tara - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara,_Chertsey
The house Vince Clarke built in its place (no word on the doorbell sound, sadly) - http://erasure4rum.com/4rum/viewtopic.php?p=6424
Comments
Feeling the need to visit Bristol now!! Anyway, how do we send in alternative LBS title suggestions please?
Craig Saunders
2022-09-02 10:58:39 +0000 UTCWe have multiple no-name full suspension mountain bike riders in our small middle class suburban estate in Hampshire. However, one of the notable characters local is ‘The Chineham Owl Man’. Below is an excerpt from the Facebook Group: ————- The Chineham Owl man - Myth or more? Following yet another discussion with local people, we are at an impasse as to whether this "local legend" actually exists or is a figment of people's imagination.... Some claim he wanders around Chineham at night time, making random hooting sounds between 1-4am and whilst some suggest 'its just an owl', you can apparently hear the difference.... Has anyone else seen or heard him? Are you the Chineham owl man who would like to claim the title? Or, is this a total figment of an overactive imagination?
Matthew Kemp
2022-09-02 10:47:30 +0000 UTCAh - The Calibre. A tickford kitted runout SRi130 Mk2 Cav. Not to be confused with the Mk3 Cav based Calibra coupé. My old man had two of those - back when Air Con was a wistful concept. Memories of being baked in the summer and not notable ventilation to cool you down. Ace looking car, but all a bit show and no substance. Those slim headlamps had the output of nursery nightlight as well...
Dan Beament
2022-09-02 10:23:10 +0000 UTCThis is a good poem.
Ger O'Connor
2022-09-01 18:56:47 +0000 UTCMy uncle had one of those Calibra - in red. They were an absolute rocket. He gave my dad a lift to a football match he was playing in Gosport, Hampshire from Marston Green in Birmingham and it took 90mins........Pre Newbury Bypass
Dan Whittington
2022-09-01 12:54:12 +0000 UTCMackenzie Crook - faced is such a perfect description, I immediately saw the guy in my head. There is a older fellow out here who sometimes brings his Moke on the classic car tours I do with my dad in his MGB. About a thousand miles over a weekend, something always breaks. It rains sometimes. The Moke team wears full deep sea fishing waterproof gear when it does. Anyway, this gent is from Northern Ireland and so is my dad so we got to chatting. Had his adult son with him as navigator. Pro mountain biker in the 2000s. Looked the son up after. He's famous for jumping over the Tour de France on a full-suspension bike. Les gendarmes gave chase, but he outrode them.
Brendan McAleer
2022-09-01 03:04:29 +0000 UTCI'm surprised Richard doesn't recall what a water bomber did to Jame Mays fire engine in the "unscripted" episode of the Grand Tour. I vividly remember it as I was in the live audience for that episode. Perhaps Jonny needs to tone down the water bombing concert plans to water distributed from a crop dusting plane to make it a bit less life ending.
Martin Clapham
2022-08-30 16:17:18 +0000 UTCOld Holborn, or generic Black Shag in licorice papers. Otherwise whacky baccy.
Chris Rayner
2022-08-30 12:47:14 +0000 UTCFor a North-East venue take a look at the Northern Stage at the Newcastle University campus. Capacity should be about right and I’ve seen a few podcasts do live shows there in the past so should be fine acoustically on that side of things.
Elliott Jones
2022-08-30 12:31:54 +0000 UTCTalking of towns characters, in my former residential town we had ..Jonny Welly... He was a little eccentric, slightly odourous, touretty, sweary, lovable chap You tube link for Jonny Welly interview https://youtu.be/uV2Jxr3x8IU
Paul Fargher
2022-08-30 11:10:33 +0000 UTCEating socon, aka eating scrotum. Ill keep my eye out for no name full suspension mountain bike guy, when i next pass thru.
Jake Bell
2022-08-30 10:41:41 +0000 UTCJordan’s right here. Queen had only released The Works in 1984 and went on to produce A Kind Of Magic in 1986 for the Toyota Highlander movie, so it’s hard to imagine they massively fell out while still chucking out an album every couple of years. However, it’s probably true that Freddie knew something was very wrong from around 1985-86, though not to the extent portrayed in the film.
Ed Storer
2022-08-30 09:34:35 +0000 UTCI have seen a woman driving 'Freddie' in the Priorswood area of Taunton. When I saw her at least, she had xxxxl nail extensions in the matching colour. It was quite a vision
Choochomatic 3000XL
2022-08-30 07:33:17 +0000 UTCI have a cracking elvis tribute car I spotted a few years ago. I’m sure the owner was wearing A fine wolf fleece. Il send It to the email.
Gareth Hendry
2022-08-30 04:26:59 +0000 UTCSpeaking of terrible design, have you seen the BMW i Vision Circular and BMW Vision iNext concept cars? It looks like they designed cars based on all the "BMW enormous front grill" memes
Tailen
2022-08-29 18:17:06 +0000 UTCSo now I know how to pull a wheelie - 27th gear required. Unfortunately I may have the gears but not the knee torque for this. I was nearly hit when the whilst cycling on the correct side of the road by a local spliffing youth who pulled a wheelie and veered across the road towards me, handlebars flailing ineffectually. As his front wheel skimmed past my head, I managed a loud "wan*er" which caused him to apply both brakes hard with the inevitable satisfying result
Anthony Daniels
2022-08-29 16:51:36 +0000 UTCThe discussion of the Daihatsu Avanzato was astounding because a fraternity brother of mine (in the United States) is named “Gianluca Avanzato”. We all loved his name so much one of us made a website to auto-generate new versions of his name. A particular favorite of mine was “Guadalcanal Aventador”. https://avocado.nepo.space/
Mateo Galguera
2022-08-29 14:31:36 +0000 UTCFinally signed up. Something I should have done age's ago but was buying a house so was been over carefull on spending
Vincent McDonnell
2022-08-29 13:11:19 +0000 UTCWe've got one locally who doesn't have a bike, but walks everywhere at 1.5x speed.
Dave Law
2022-08-29 13:08:52 +0000 UTCYep Eaton Socon is definitely a place, I drive past it every weekend on my way home. It’s usually about 35-40 minutes into the podcast. A few weeks ago as I came off the A1 and down the hill towards the Socon roundabout, I witnessed an absolute wang nearly put himself his car and family straight into the roundabout due to what appeared to be a sizeable argument being held inside the car. Thankfully due to some heavy late braking it was recovered with no more than some soiled garments and I imagine, a deathly silence for several miles!
Ben Aston
2022-08-29 12:18:03 +0000 UTCI was briefly tempted by a Renegade last year. Wish I'd pulled the trigger now and turned it into a Flowered Up tribute vehicle.
Dave Law
2022-08-29 11:35:20 +0000 UTCRe khalid - never heard of the chap prior to it being mentioned here, so I had a listen. Yeah he’s a talentless turd, alas there seem a few making much money out of such Kak. I asked my 18 ur old son and 22yr old daughter who both also said yes he’s everywhere and yes he’s crap.
Robert Clay-parker
2022-08-29 09:31:44 +0000 UTCWith regards to boxing (and ridiculous wages) Usyk & AJ split the $150 million (!) Purse 50/50 ... defies belief.
Remoc
2022-08-29 08:48:11 +0000 UTCI was thinking about this, I wondered if he wouldn't be smoking what we call here in Aus chop chop, or illegal tobacco. What I'm sure of though is Bike Guy wouldn't be paying full price for his tobacco would get mates who are going to France to bring him back loads of tax free tobacco.
Stephen Voss
2022-08-29 07:16:18 +0000 UTCMountain Bike Guy would probably use Riverstone Easy Rolling Tobacco whilst doing a wheelie as it clearly will need to be easy to roll.
Devon Franky
2022-08-29 07:12:23 +0000 UTCAhh yes! That's right I remember that guy
Al Scott
2022-08-29 05:41:55 +0000 UTCUnfortunately Jonny got too much of his Queen knowledge from Hollywood. The story told about Live Aid is, with all respect, bullshit. The Bohemian Rhapsody film glittered quite a fair amount of nonsense to try and compact Queen’s multi-decade tenure to a 2-hour timeframe. I know it’s not exactly the total wealth of truth but looking at the historical accuracy tab of the film’s Wikipedia page will show the number of creative freedoms taken. No wonder it’s the lowest-rated film to win at the Golden Globes
Jordan Mulach
2022-08-29 04:41:13 +0000 UTCThe Queen car is tied to the Jacket, white trousers and wife beater, with a yellow Jacket adorned with black accents. As you guys correctly adjusted during the podcast. Nicely. At the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo a few years ago, there was a person at many games dressed exactly white/yellow and doing the aaaahhoo and getting amazing audience response. Amazing.
John Lancaster-Lennox
2022-08-29 02:41:48 +0000 UTCA Kona Magic?
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2022-08-28 22:55:54 +0000 UTCThe older i get the more i think Austin Rover absolutely nailed it with the Metro design. That red one pictured is a peach. I had a ratty Metro in my teens. Couple highlights of ownership being brake failure in the lake district when the fluid boiled, and on a separate occasion the bonnet flying up onto the windscreen (and aftermarket sunroof shattering all over my head due to the pressure wave) during a blast down the M62.. It did only cost me 100 quid though...
Paul Brown
2022-08-28 22:07:43 +0000 UTCOn the A428 near Eaton Socon is a sign pointing to the villages of Toseland Yelling Graveley. Which always conjures up images of JT having a proper strop.
Maurice Barnes
2022-08-28 21:40:32 +0000 UTCYes! That's the one... shocking..
Remoc
2022-08-28 20:10:17 +0000 UTCCreepy but accurate.
Martin Mees
2022-08-28 19:29:21 +0000 UTCI see the Queen Jeep around Taunton and Bridgwater a lot. As far as I can work out, it is a replacement (owned by the same couple) for a pink Daihatsu Sirion with white Viper stripes and a large pink sunstrip which read "Freddie Mercury" in a generic brush script font.
Martin Mees
2022-08-28 19:21:23 +0000 UTCMountain bike man also is suspiciously friendly with young girls who are possibly/possibly not of legal age and spends time in chatting to them in local parks.
James Perkins
2022-08-28 19:15:00 +0000 UTCYes I believe it’s similar decor but pink. Think it’s some kind of Hyundai
James Perkins
2022-08-28 19:12:57 +0000 UTCThe Metro. Hateful thing. I learned to drive in one of those and detested it. The pedals and the steering wheel were not inline with the seat, so while the seat was close to the door the pedals were shifted left-of-centre because of the wheel arch. The steering wheel was also left-of-centre, but not at the same angle from my torso which tried to sit square in the seat. So I completely failed to ever get comfortable in that car, but passed my driving test first time- the only reason to remember a car like that.
Firstdan2000
2022-08-28 18:44:08 +0000 UTCI know! I'll try and get pics.
Remoc
2022-08-28 18:19:27 +0000 UTCWhaaaaaaat?!
Smith and Sniff
2022-08-28 18:05:45 +0000 UTCAside from the afore-mentioned Queen car there is another car dedicated to Freddie in the same town..
Remoc
2022-08-28 17:46:17 +0000 UTCWhat metro is next to the MG Metro. It’s not an S (I had one) - no spoiler or red seat belts. So a C?
Robin White
2022-08-28 17:33:41 +0000 UTCLooking forward to where the L’reg K11 fits in. I had a red K11 Super S (L’reg only IIRC) in red on 15’s with a custom made manifold and a red fur lined interior. Only made about 90 odd BHP but it made you feel like you were in fast and the furious.
Peter Flint-Murray
2022-08-28 17:07:38 +0000 UTC
