Podcast 111 - Group B garden centre
Added 2022-06-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTCJonny's been driving a 6R4 and Richard has visited a garden centre. Also in this episode, challenging fly tippers, getting yanked off DC current, things left in Richard's new house, what car makers call tow bars these days, the perils of a triple layer floor mat, excessively zoomed-in photographs, the Welsh legend of Paul mountain, Jet Towel spotting, a Smith and Sniff guerilla sticker campaign, getting in trouble with the Duke of Richmond, throwing gravy over Burt Reynolds, what it costs to run an old rally car, pitching a bad business model on Dragons' Den, and cars with high foreheads.
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Will not be able to resist adding "he's got 'orrible spoilers coming out of his back" when I read the Gruffalo to my son now
Matthew Carpenter
2025-01-12 02:40:09 +0000 UTChttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1CvS-NlgI This video of the daily life of a Audi Spooooooooaaats driver in 1985 is fantastic.
#lescolsdesalpes
2022-06-11 16:29:44 +0000 UTCTalking about Group B on the road:
#lescolsdesalpes
2022-06-11 16:23:40 +0000 UTCBook review - I was on a ferry from Plymouth to Santander a couple of days ago and the free wi-fi didn’t extend to the cabins so rather than being able to piss about on the internet I was, like a medieval monk in his cell, reduced to reading an actual physical book (under 30’s, ask your parents). The book I had to hand was How To Be A Car Journalist by Roy Lanchester with which I whiled away a few hours in solitary confinement quite entertainingly. Mr Lanchester has led a fascinating life and his memoirs are well worth a read. I am currently making my way through Roy’s first foray into fiction, Steel Flies, and I will update you all on this tome in due course.
Tim C
2022-06-07 21:09:17 +0000 UTCCar with a large forehead the Citroen C4 Picasso with the extra tall windscreen
Steve Morton
2022-06-07 11:00:00 +0000 UTCClassic garden centre smell... - Damp hydroponic matting. - A split bag of growmore. - Jeyes fluid
Maurice Barnes
2022-06-06 21:43:32 +0000 UTCJust after the section on high foreheaded cars I saw a RR Phantom Hearse pass me going the other way. Never seen one before, but head on the raised roof makes it very high foreheaded. And friggin huge, it looked like one of those double storey HGVs
Giant Iain
2022-06-06 17:36:32 +0000 UTCAgree with you on the Vaneo. It was crap.
Ed Storer
2022-06-06 16:59:07 +0000 UTCThe Yaris Verso is known in Japan as the Toyota Fun Cargo. My old boss had one - she uses a motorised wheelchair so these high roof cars are quite easy to modify so you can actually wheel in via the tailgate. She got rid of the Yaris and then got a…Skoda Roomster!
Ed Storer
2022-06-06 16:58:26 +0000 UTCNo, that's just Jonny's brain. It tends to run-on like an old A-series if not kept in check. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-06-06 15:27:14 +0000 UTCThanks Alison. We've actually got some dedicated fox poo shampoo which I've now deployed to satisfyingly de-stinking effect. R
Smith and Sniff
2022-06-06 15:26:02 +0000 UTCListening to this, wearing my Homer Simpson onesie. That reference was frightening 😂
Darryl Mac
2022-06-06 12:54:40 +0000 UTCOn the subject of cars with a large forehead, quite possibly the worst of the lot of them was the Mercedes Vaneo, definitely the automotive equivalent of a receding hairline.
Mark Sheridan
2022-06-06 12:32:50 +0000 UTCFound your mountain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mountain
John Hempson
2022-06-06 07:31:46 +0000 UTCSpot on with the Honda Jazz at the garden center, near me is Gordale garden center and you just know the Honda Jazz doing 40mph in the outside lane on the dual carriage way is turning right in 3 miles for Goredale
Nigel Hancock
2022-06-05 21:58:40 +0000 UTCAre you sure you both only had one beer each? Jonny sounded like he'd had a few with that outro 😂
Julian Hale
2022-06-05 21:41:35 +0000 UTCMy favourite Group B cars were the 6R4 and the RS200. I think the 6R4 because of the utter madness of it compared to a bog standard Metro. The RS200 was a favourite for its styling. I remember seeing it in Car magazine when I was 10 and reading the feature over and over.
Stephen Archer
2022-06-05 20:00:48 +0000 UTCRichard would have to have a quad Telsa motor swapped 6R4 to daily drive it, I'm sure he could get a car from someone who is sick of replacing the engine every week. Would easily blow the original 0-60-0 out of the water and it could be even more of a handful. Lack of space for batteries would probably mean keeping the 50 mile range, would need massive hidden speakers to play engine noise at a deafening level. I'm looking forward to Jonny's Fake Lake Show.
Matt Tester
2022-06-05 19:09:32 +0000 UTCRichard- apparently tomato ketchup gets rid of the scent of fox poo. Rub it into the dog’s coat before rinsing
Alison Dummer
2022-06-05 18:21:48 +0000 UTCThere was a prototype Samba Grp B car, but not a full fire-breathing nutter https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/talbot/samba/1983/884562
Bruce Driffill
2022-06-05 18:12:02 +0000 UTC
