Podcast 105 - Nissan GT-Rs of history
Added 2022-04-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTCBeset with technical problems including crashing software and randomly rebooting laptops, Jonny and Richard finally managed to record this show of nonsense with a few unwanted pops and squelches on the audio. Sorry about that.
Topics covered this week include GT-Rs in Peaky Blinders, a trip to the corrections desk, random people on American internal flights, a confusion between 'loo' and 'poo', impersonating a peacock, bold claims in car ads, Japanese sports cars that look good without boot spoilers, Norfolk as the UK hotspot for cars for sale at the side of the road, USAF personnel driving American cars in Britain, giving away a Ford Raptor to an East Anglian grandma, San Franciscans dissolving in the rain, Richard's short review of the new Range Rover, Jonny watching Cliffhanger, the coolness of El Caminos, seeing a Rivian R1T in real life, the surprisingly nice new Toyota Venza, and John Travolta flying himself to the East of England to go on a deranged shellfish binge.
Comments
Categorically scrote's leave doors open when the de-camp and leg'it! lol! Travolta saw a Pajero import Short wheel base and he was all over it!
Michael k-b
2022-05-05 14:39:20 +0000 UTCA thousand times this. Also my current wife came home in the summer to report that the air conditioning (which I’d just had serviced) had packed up because it wasn’t firing cold air at her. She had the dial pointed at the windscreen.
Ed Storer
2022-05-03 20:35:41 +0000 UTCHave just been. Would agree with this. I rented a ‘small’…Subaru Legacy.
Ed Storer
2022-05-03 20:34:11 +0000 UTCSince you're talking about Alpines and sales figures in this episode, I feel they'd sell more cars if they didn't demand you to bring paperwork just to sit in a car... I have a friend who is always ordering new cars, Range Rovers, Porsches, AMGs, he went to arrange a viewing of an Alpine A110 as I convinced him to look at one, he then told me he never went to look at it because Alpine Centre in Solihull asked for a his driving licence and I believe his last P60 plus proof of insurance just to sit in one to make sure he fits. Seems crazy to me they'd ask that considering you can just walk in a Porsche dealership and sit in a car even if you're not old enough to drive...
Julian Hale
2022-05-01 19:46:08 +0000 UTCVinWiki may be good for finding information about the Charger. Loads of info about cars from the States
Kieran Nash
2022-04-29 16:03:38 +0000 UTCMr Cruise did the same thing at an Indian restaurant in St Albans, him & his entourage ordered many lobsters etc and when the bill arrived he couldn't pay as they didn't take American express 😂🤣, I think he got the whole meal for free, either that or some other member ponied up for it. The restaurant dined out on the episode for years and I think it still does... Keep up the good work fellas👍🏻 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19353415
Chris Jarrett
2022-04-27 17:18:11 +0000 UTCI can't remember if it was this or a previous episode that referred to the oldest vehicle on sale being the Fiat 500. If it's possible to stretch the rules to a van, then the Citroën Relay was introduced in 2006, though has been face-lifted a couple of times since.
Andrew Baynes
2022-04-26 22:15:58 +0000 UTCThe Volta actually came to my work during the filming of his latest project to shoot in the DH Mosquito we have. I can confirm that he didn’t arrive in a second hand B-Max, or a Herc, but a snazzy Merc Marco Polo thingy in private jet trim. I was mildly upset to not see him arrive in a second hand - found by the side of the road spec - Chevy Volt(a) towing a trailer of crab.
Bradley Winder
2022-04-25 20:58:33 +0000 UTCBloody hilarious as per guys....particularly Travolta and his seafood obsession
Richard Matthews
2022-04-25 09:43:29 +0000 UTCThe last gen Holden utes where unibody construction, but they liked to do a 1 tonner for tradies but the unibody couldn't handle the weight, so the last gen 1 tonner the front half was unibody the back bit was separate chassis, if I recall correctly I think they was really proud of that too. Cheers for the pod.
Stephen Voss
2022-04-25 09:24:48 +0000 UTCFor some reason my previous post of this vanished. Regarding the surprise Cliffhanger MFs… On the third date with my now- wife, two of the coil packs died on my vx220. Well done Vauxhall for placing them directly below the chicken wire cover to the engine, in full exposure to the elements. The humiliation continued as the low- loader driver came out with “You guys have only just got together haven’t you. This is maybe the first or second date…?” which set things up nicely for the worsening of the situation after the car was dropped at my house. Not ready to introduce my new girlfriend to the foodstuff- powered commuting hack transport that would take her back to hers (Corsa 1.5td) I suggested we put on a video (literally 😉 it was on VHS) and I build up the courage to tell her the bad news about the onward journey. I grabbed a film I’d not seen in ages, which was Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Til Dawn” and put that on. This is not a good third date fillum. Eventually she got home, tired, starving and slightly worried. She was happy with the chipfat Corsa transport, quite liked it in fact. She hated the vx220. How she ever ended up marrying me and having three kids with me a mystery, although at the time she had a Ford Ka that she sold to buy a Nissan Figaro, so clearly she’s a woman of taste.
Ant Brown
2022-04-25 08:36:17 +0000 UTCShow notes?
Robin Johnsen
2022-04-25 06:36:03 +0000 UTCHello Lads, Longest running car productive till present. Lada Niva? 1977 - present?
Tatty_Morgs
2022-04-25 06:00:46 +0000 UTCGlad it’s not just my wife that plays with climate control like she’s playing the sodding piano……I’ve tried and failed miserably to explain how it works and why therefore needs no fiddling.
Robert Clay-parker
2022-04-24 20:53:49 +0000 UTCI don’t think you can accurately judge the size of a car while you’re in America. Massive cars look medium sized, medium sized cars look tiny and they don’t even sell tiny cars like VW Ups or Peugeot 107’s.
Tim C
2022-04-24 20:41:55 +0000 UTCThanks for the heads-up on the GTR. OH is heavily into her period dramas and was asking about how to identify the different types of carriage. I'll advise her she needs to keep an eye out for the carbon diffuser and LED drl's next time Darcy comes for tea.
Maurice Barnes
2022-04-24 20:27:29 +0000 UTCThe "Volta" might have his eye out for a Renault Sport Spider in Norfolk Mustard Yellow. His face would provide another 25% of downforce.
Tom Lanigan
2022-04-24 19:07:08 +0000 UTCRichard is a pretty good impressionist, his Scottish ones are top notch and given he's married to an American I guess he has plenty of practice to fall back on.
Nigel Hancock
2022-04-24 18:22:39 +0000 UTCRichard has a pretty convincing American accent, must be from hanging around the in-laws. And yes, El Caminos and Ford Rancheros are cool. The El Caminos were always full frame over the generations, the Rancheros could be unibody or body on frame, depending on which generation you're looking at.
Ed Nicholson
2022-04-24 17:47:11 +0000 UTC
