Podcast 122 - Disaster in a VW Grand California
Added 2022-08-21 17:01:02 +0000 UTCJonny has been away camping and Richard has a new reason to stop swearing in the podcast.
Also in this episode, meeting a seal, forgetting how to behave in London, craving a Panda 100HP, buying a car for RADwood, the thinking person’s Piaggio Ape, Jonny’s festival of musicians he hates, Imperial cars of the 1960s, the van-car that looks like Dougal from Magic Roundabout, a love of JDM MPVs, the Geneva Motor Show in Qatar, Jeff Goldblum and Gordon Murray chatting shirts, news from yoghurt corner, random Smith and Sniff merch spotting, and a haunting story from the lavatories at a motorhome show.
Also, some inept promotion for the first Smith and Sniff live show even though it's sold out.
Comments
Re: the Daihatsu cuore tr-xx R4, best avoided over 60k miles as the diff bearings can let go and they are £5k to replace.
Maurice Barnes
2022-08-25 22:57:42 +0000 UTCKacka hauschuh?
Maurice Barnes
2022-08-25 22:55:09 +0000 UTCComing up later in the studio, it's Slipper of Shit I love the Panda 100hp. Very cool little car. I did want to transplant the engine into a Panda Cross and lower it so you get a mini hatch with AWD. Kind of like the 80s Japanese Kei cars like the Daihatsu Mira/Cuore. 660cc 3 cyl turbo, and AWD. Very very cool.
Tim Organo
2022-08-25 20:13:48 +0000 UTCI now want to bring a slipper to leave somewhere at #OTLOT
Adam
2022-08-25 17:59:34 +0000 UTCI want to hear Liam Gallagher using the expression 'Slipper of Shit'
John Hammond
2022-08-24 13:49:59 +0000 UTCBack in the early 70's my folks decided to visit one of mum's old college friends in Lyon. Must have been 1973 as I vividly remember watching the Tupelov 144 crash at the Paris Air show on the telly whilst we were there. We drove from Cheadle Hulme in a mallard green 1750 Maxi to a late night sailing from Newhaven to Dieppe. We arrived in the middle of the night so my dad decided we'd just kip in Dieppe until daylight when we'd continue on our adventure. Two adults and 3 children, I was 8, sister 6 and little brother 3, proving the Maxi trick of just fold all the seats flat and it's a big bed. The following night we spent in a campsite somewhere between Dieppe and Lyon in a tent we borrowed when we arrived. I firmly believe that my father intended for us to sleep for the entire trip in the Maxi. I suspect my mother soon put a stop to that after the night on the dockside in Dieppe
Mike Taylor
2022-08-23 12:14:53 +0000 UTCYou need to put the Gloucestershire Vintage & Country weekend in the Smith & Sniff diary. 1st weekend of August each year at South Cerney near Cirencester. A huge selection of cars and most importantly stationary engines and bizarre industrial wagons which are basically trolleys powered by stationary engines. I delighted in joining the parade of cars in the arena in a mk1 Twingo and foxing the 'expert' on the PA system who didn't have a spiel up his sleeve. He managed to tell everybody it was a Renault and there his joyful commentary became nothing more than a stumbled jabber until something much older and British came into view.
John Hammond
2022-08-23 08:02:51 +0000 UTCIt is my mission this week to shoehorn the phrase "shirty backstory" into a work meeting this week. I will award myself extra points for not cracking up as I do it.
Iain Holburn
2022-08-23 07:35:15 +0000 UTCI have wanted to take up pipe smoking since the death of my grandfather, who always smoked one. This would be the ideal opportunity.
Ed Storer
2022-08-22 15:04:29 +0000 UTCThe live events if they are “intimate” should surely be called “An Audience with Smith and Sniff”. You are allowed to smoke a pipe and drink brandy
Jim Galbraith
2022-08-22 13:31:14 +0000 UTCThings you don’t expect to see: a Calibra with a roof rack. TBO just a Calibra would have made me pause.
Jim Galbraith
2022-08-22 13:27:17 +0000 UTC“That’s that for this” defo new outro
Robin White
2022-08-22 13:15:35 +0000 UTCI like the reminders of the awesome live event that is sold out (rightly so) being like a new Porsche release and it is already sold out…
Robin White
2022-08-22 13:13:57 +0000 UTCUfn!
Martin Mees
2022-08-22 12:37:15 +0000 UTCFnu
Ben Yong
2022-08-22 12:25:39 +0000 UTCI’m going through all my comments and texts to make sure I haven’t committed to something while drunk texting Late Wake show ideas (where Johnny is completely out of his depth and organizes funerals for strangers in various cultures and countries around the world)
Ben Yong
2022-08-22 12:25:16 +0000 UTCRichard, was there any mention of how fizzy yogurt may affect the squirt frequency?
Ronnie Whelan
2022-08-22 10:14:17 +0000 UTCWhy don't you come to Scotland and do a live recording from Jonny's dodgem?
Nathan Henstock
2022-08-22 08:50:51 +0000 UTCEpic version this week. You are going from strength to strength. Other motoring podcasts don't follow your path...
Andrew Jones
2022-08-22 07:11:02 +0000 UTCIf "slipper of shit" was a John Peel session what would they be? A death metal band from Slough or maybe the translation of a German hardcore/punk group "Pantoffel Scheiße"
Martin Stephenson
2022-08-22 04:20:37 +0000 UTCYou gents must be thinking of the Elgrand Highway Star edition? 😎
Paul Yeung
2022-08-22 01:09:28 +0000 UTCI was looking at panda 100hp’s on eBay today. My mum and dad had one a few years ago and sold it to one of my mates, I really wish I bought it now!
Archie Evans
2022-08-21 20:42:38 +0000 UTCNew merchandising opportunity for the live shows - Miss & Sniff shit slippers.
David Carss
2022-08-21 18:58:11 +0000 UTCPossibly you have found the true meaning behind S.O.S ??
AL Dickens
2022-08-21 18:46:34 +0000 UTCI'm saving this episode for tomorrow morning's cross-country drive in my 100hp which can oy be described in a high-pitched voice as "fun!"
Martin Mees
2022-08-21 18:37:07 +0000 UTCThe 'Ben' thing is intriguing. 🤔
Elliott Levy
2022-08-21 18:26:05 +0000 UTCHealth and safety police here. As Americans will never learn, the joy of the metric system is that (for example) if you're cooking, you don't need to bother with cups as well as weights and scales, because 100ml of water weighs 100g. By the same token a Hercules transporter full of water (and I've had this confirmed) weighs an awful lot, so Jonny may be advocating the murder of dozens of people through crushing injuries, rather than them being subject to a light shower at his elaborately set- up spite concert. A former (sore loser) President of the US had this issue with water being heavy (I believe) pointed out to him when it was suggested by him that the best way to put out the terrible fire at Notre Dame, was to do the same thing with a plane full of water flying over Paris. This amount of water being dropped would have done more damage through impact than the fire ever would. If anyone needs me, I'll be over there standing in the corner wearing my hi viz and with the CO2 fire extinguisher. You can never be too careful y'know.
Ant Brown
2022-08-21 17:39:47 +0000 UTC
