Podcast 97 show notes
Added 2022-02-27 18:01:04 +0000 UTCHello gang. A trio of SAAB pics for you this week, starting with that brilliant 99 Turbo wheel (the design was called 'Inca', fact fans), then a nice 99 Turbo in full, and the interior of a later model in a questionable purple with red paint combo. EDIT: Added the Pepsi Concorde so it's not all SAAB pics. Now, some links...
Foreigner would like to know what love is - https://youtu.be/r3Pr1_v7hsw
"Awww, MUM!" It's Turn Back Time - https://youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc
Why can't you see / What you're doing with the BVs - https://youtu.be/RxOBOhRECoo
That red with purple SAAB ad in full. Hmm - https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1419184
American report on Japanese lavatories - https://youtu.be/s0tCO4NdKeU
That Pepsi Concorde story - https://simpleflying.com/air-france-pepsi-cola-concorde/
Don't forget Smith and Sniff merch - https://shop.thelatebrakeshow.com/collections/smith-and-sniff
Comments
Yes, late to the game but that Colorado Red interior was definitely a swap into that Talladega Red 900- not a factory combination, at least available in the US!
autoscribe74
2022-04-12 01:20:21 +0000 UTCNo, you weren’t the only one! I actually thought about the issue for at least 10 minutes after the podcast and figured they have to use some software where they set specific timestamps for their chatter and the gaps in between are filled automatically with music and jingles based on their duration. This would also enable them to play specific songs at specific timeframes to maybe save a few quid on royalties! Thank you very much for clarification on this as I couldn’t get this thought out of my head until now!
Simon Zirngibl
2022-03-04 21:46:04 +0000 UTC"Austin Ambassador" is the answer to the question "Is it possible to make a less interesting Austin Princess?". You poor bastard.
Zoona
2022-03-02 23:42:35 +0000 UTCburgundy/red combo very odd. however, cheeky black respray and you have the best colour combo ever.
Zoona
2022-03-02 23:38:08 +0000 UTCOops, that was a bit of an oversight. I'll put one up there now. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-03-01 18:13:44 +0000 UTCNo Concorde pics 😭
Kieran Nash
2022-03-01 18:10:17 +0000 UTCNo need to apologise, Richard - it adds the characteristic patina to SnS productions... they wouldn't be authentic in a soundproofed box :-) Thing is, the council had just put a leaflet through saying they were changing my bin day to Monday and I suddenly thought "oh crap, did they mean today???"
Dark Newt
2022-03-01 17:43:18 +0000 UTCSorry about that. All being well, I'm moving to a quieter area soon. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-03-01 17:08:10 +0000 UTCA friend of mine had a 99 that he updated with twin webers, an off the shelf inlet manifold for such a conversion wasn’t available, so my frills some how managed to contact Will Gollop of Saab Rallycross fame who sent him the details of the one he had made!
Steve Morton
2022-03-01 16:55:17 +0000 UTCFor those that are interested,(but its probably just me!) regarding Richard’s comments about how Absolute Radio sort out their playlists, when a single presenter is across multiple stations. https://rainnews.com/absolute-radio-how-their-new-playlist-choice-at-breakfast-works/
Matthew Bartlett
2022-03-01 13:17:31 +0000 UTCWhen I was 16 (1996) I worked in a hifi shop in Leicester every Saturday to earn some pocket money. One of my colleagues in this complete ladfest had a thing for 99 turbos and happened to take me out for a burn up. I remember lots of turbo whistle, torque steer and it generally being a bit of a hooligan. And it was red with an aero kit and mini light-style wheels since your asking. Ps. 90’s music. If you can stomach Fern ‘Nostrils’ Cotton then she does an excellent 90’s recap every week on BBC sounds.
Stephen Robinson
2022-03-01 09:29:32 +0000 UTCHowling at the discussion of a “Thames Trout” doing a Tony Hawk out of the bowl. Re: your Absolute Radio idea, S&S would have to narrate a channel featuring Jethro Tull, James Galway, The Moody Blues, etc. It would of course be called Absolute Flutes.
Brendan McAleer
2022-03-01 00:18:41 +0000 UTCQuite a few - for major stuff I use Steve Meredith at Paradise Workshop near Romsey who is absolutely ace. DCA In Bucklebury are very good as well
Rob Dalby
2022-02-28 20:36:08 +0000 UTCI want that red interior in my life! Haven’t got that sort of money though…and there’s ULEZ
Ed Storer
2022-02-28 20:28:00 +0000 UTCYou’ve clearly never had children.
Chris Rayner
2022-02-28 18:07:09 +0000 UTCMy Dad had a selection of Saabs when I was a lad as the local dealer was 100 yards from our house. He he used to go there for company cars as the family business got more successful and he could trade up from a Cavalier. Two 900 Turbos, two 9000 Turbos and then a 9-5 Turbo estate. They did eat gearboxes, especially when he got the dealer to turn up the wick on the boost a bit. They seemed like rocket ships when I was a youngster and were lovely things to ride in.
Ben Backhouse
2022-02-28 17:52:18 +0000 UTCOoooff, that 99 Turbo! Yes please
Adam
2022-02-28 14:01:32 +0000 UTCThose Inca wheels look like one of those upmarket cake pans. Nordic Ware, I think.
Vítor Hugo Silva
2022-02-28 12:21:31 +0000 UTCI bet it was a relief when they invented doors in 1961.
Dark Newt
2022-02-28 12:06:03 +0000 UTCmy deepest sympathy
Mark Williams
2022-02-28 12:00:01 +0000 UTCIt's often a slightly odd experience listening to SnS on headphones, because it brings Richard's urban millieu to my rural idyll.. this week.. "is that the bin wagon? oh crap, it's bin d.. oh wait"
Dark Newt
2022-02-28 11:56:34 +0000 UTCI was looking into this yesterday.. far more than you might imagine, according to the owners club. One just up the road from me - closer than my Jaguar guy as it turns out. I was looking because there's a really tempting mint-looking '92 Saab 9000 Turbo on Autotrader just now.
Dark Newt
2022-02-28 11:53:26 +0000 UTCHow many Saab specialists left in the uk? Bourne motors in Eastbourne were Saab specialists for decades , always used to have so many that they were parked in the side streets around the garage , used to see Saabs everywhere in Eastbourne.
Mark Berry
2022-02-28 10:13:39 +0000 UTCAs always SnS leads you everywhere but where you expected. Those who watched the Cher video (and indeed couldn't deny it's a banger) may have noticed what looked like a tattoo on Cher's rear fender. I've saved your search history and can confirm it is indeed an inked bumper sticker peaking through: "Cher's first tattoo was etched on her butt. The 67-year-old star got her first body art in 1973 as her relationship with first husband Sonny Bono was ending - a butterfly and flowers needled onto her derrière."
James Taylor
2022-02-28 10:04:33 +0000 UTCLoved listening to your nostalgia today while touring New Zealand, South Island in a rare, but not exotic, 90s car: Fiat Bravo 155 HGT* https://flic.kr/p/2n5TyT4 Was not brave enough to go down this road though... https://flic.kr/p/2n5Yx6R * It's actually a 2001 version but...
Robin Capper
2022-02-28 07:43:30 +0000 UTCLove the Incas. Also love the flat faced 3 spoke Turbo wheels, against instinct cos they sit on 4 bolts. They should be on a turbo 2CV, ‘logically’. My 900i had the telephone dial full width chromed wheel trims which I ended up liking a lot.
Jim Galbraith
2022-02-27 23:59:06 +0000 UTCIn around 1984 12-year-old me went with my father to find the new family wheels. We went to a garage just outside York and as we pulled up I spotted a 99 Turbo resplendent on its Incas. At the time I couldn’t think of a better mode of transport for our family, as the previous 4 years we’d been trundling around in a deeply uncool Austin Princess 1800. We took the SAAB out for a test drive and I could tell that my Dad was as smitten as I was, I couldn’t wait to tell all my school friends of our massive upgrade. All the way home we talked about what a wonderful machine the enigmatic Swedes had produced and where we would be going on our, newly-stylish, adventures. Our new transport was to be picked up the following Friday after my father had finished work, I was beside myself with excitement and bored the arse off everyone I met with 0-60 times and such-like for the whole week. Friday came, I ran home from school, fit-to-burst with joy I waited patiently for my Dad to arrive. It was dark by the time he pulled into the drive and, as a car-obsessed pre-teen, I could tell that something was wrong. This was not the slightly odd roofline I had been waiting for, the headlights were not quite the right shape, where is the Turbo?! What followed still ranks among the worst days of my life. My father, an eminently practical man, had changed his mind. The SAAB was just a bit too much money, and too unconventional. Instead we now had…a late 1983 Austin Ambassador 2.0 HLS. I doubt anyone has cried as much in all of history.
Paddy Campbell
2022-02-27 21:37:38 +0000 UTCMy dad used to sit astride the loo when I was about 4. This would’ve been circa 1952-3. On mature reflection I suspect this was to conceal his morning wood from his infant children.
Chris Rayner
2022-02-27 20:44:55 +0000 UTCI adore Saab 900s (I’ve got one) but £16k is a lot of sheets to pay for a car which will make you feel you’re driving around inside a blood vessel.
Rob Dalby
2022-02-27 20:32:37 +0000 UTCMost southerly point in the USA is in Hawaii. Tricky to drive to from the mainland though.
Peter Heamon
2022-02-27 19:05:45 +0000 UTCThese podcasts are certainly a highlight to the week. The level in which you men will enthuse about all aspects of life is just fantastic, love it.
Darryl Mac
2022-02-27 18:54:57 +0000 UTC
