Podcast 92 - Ye olde Ford fayre
Added 2022-01-23 18:00:04 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard wonder why Lionel Richie keeps turning up to a medieval Ford festival, even though the organisers have asked him not to.
Also in this croaky and hungover episode, meeting Meat Loaf, describing The One Show, making synthesised handclaps, doing bad boxing and drinking a Baldwin of whiskey.
Plus, sports people with accidental interview VTEC, Jonny's daughter in a Berlingo sliding door disaster, a listener has a nightmare with a Chrysler Voyager and some monkeys, the surprising wealth of the MG owners' club, and remembering the Ford Explorer North Face edition.
Finally, Jonny has an update on his Late Brake Show cardening adventure with the old Porsches and Richard spills the beans on what really happened when he took part in a rallycross race for the most recent episode of The Grand Tour.
Comments
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode- never before had I imagined Lionel Richie at a Ford Faire- but now it’s all I can imagine
Mark Baker
2022-01-28 23:28:09 +0000 UTCWith regards to the Ford Explorer, I’m here to report a positive memory of this otherwise ho-hum vehicle. In 1998 my dad purchased, what was to my car-obsessed young mind, the coolest one in the world. Imagine my excitement when he returned from the dealership having disposed of a dreadfully brown Windstar minivan, with this bright red spooooort ute as our new family car. His was equipped with the “XLT appearance package” which meant a body-colored grille instead of the standard faux chrome, upsized tires on 16” wheels, and crucially, a 5.0 liter V8 not too far removed from the Mustang GT of the time. My dad’s “dad habit” is that he always insists his trucks must have a limited slip diff — which to this day he mentions every time he borrows my Toyota pickup, which eschews the LSD for a selectable locker — so combining the limited slip diff with the Explorer’s full time four wheel drive meant that on snowy days he was my first introduction to hooning about, pitching the thing sideways with all the commitment of a rallycross virtuoso hopped up on energy drink. In summary, there has been at least one good Explorer, with a rumbling V8 and a father and son embarking on a lifetime of car adventures. Thanks S&S for the best podcast around!!
Chris
2022-01-26 15:39:09 +0000 UTCLionel Richie at Ford Fayre was hilarious, laughing on my own in a customers garden. Jurassic Park - there was, and may be still is, a guy around Bidford-on-Avon/Stratford-upon-Avon area who has a Jeep Wrangler which is a replica of the gas powered Jeeps they use in the film. Think he may have even shown it at The Stratford-upon-Avon Motoring Festival organised by palming hero, and local resisdent Quentin Wilson.
Richard Matthews
2022-01-26 10:01:50 +0000 UTCLike Jonny, I had until this year managed not to watch Jurassic Park. I have now seen it and it isn't bad. I now understand that I share the same name as Dickie Attenborough's character and it explains why people often ask me how the dinosaurs are doing. I've previously just thought they were mental.
John Hammond
2022-01-25 23:15:12 +0000 UTCFord Fair still happens every August, although it has morphed from the static car show of the 1990s to being a trackday for wall punchers in lime green Focus RS. I used to go regularly in the 1990s and it was always a scorching hot day, one year I was sat queuing to get in with my Fiesta Ghia (complete with lowered suspension and TSW Blade alloys) when the overheating MK2 Granada in the queue next to me decided it would blow a coolant hose in spectacular fashion and shower everything in boiling hot coolant.
John Hammond
2022-01-25 23:06:49 +0000 UTCI had use of a 97 Explorer for about 3 weeks in 2001 when I started a new job and was waiting for a new company car to arrive. The Explorer was handed back by a salesman who left. It wasn't actually that bad. Reg no was R45WOC. Just checked it's MOT history. It had 90k miles on it when I handed it back in 2001 but when MOT's started being shown online in 2005 it only had 75k, then it looks like it had another haircut a few years ago. Seems to have survived until last year at least though...
Tom Carter
2022-01-24 20:04:06 +0000 UTCIs 'bag work' an optional extra on the Palm Angels menu?
Shaun Kelly
2022-01-24 19:23:57 +0000 UTCSpeaking of working out and looking like a Twat, I took a video of myself doing a VR workout kind of like beatsabre, and i looked like a was swatting a massive hoard of bees....
david marden
2022-01-24 14:57:25 +0000 UTCIf Richard only had Wendens Ambo on his list, does that mean 'fizzy yoghurt' has either been resolved off-air or abandoned?
Matt Tester
2022-01-24 12:40:38 +0000 UTCBut it’s not fully CGI, not the first ones. They built a entire TRex for it! 😄
Alexandros Theodorou
2022-01-24 11:39:34 +0000 UTCThanks for the phonics book tip, been after some new preschool books 👍
Maurice Barnes
2022-01-23 23:09:30 +0000 UTCI've got a 92 Taurus SHO ... that engine would have been amazing in a mid-engine car. Have a friend that owned some early gen Ford Explorers back in the day. he loved them. I still remember the huge stacks of replacement tires we had at the Ford dealership I worked at when we were doing that Firestone recall. It also involved some Ranger pickups too that used the same Firestones as the OEM fitment.
Ed Nicholson
2022-01-23 20:02:42 +0000 UTCI had a ‘99 Explorer back in about 2006. Wasn’t a North Face though. Quite liked it.
Stephen Archer
2022-01-23 19:57:35 +0000 UTCI've never seen Jurassic Park because it's CGI. Course it's CGI Jonny you nutter. Honestly give it a watch. Brilliant film.
George Wade
2022-01-23 19:44:57 +0000 UTCI always love the car-based metaphors.
Sean Hamerton
2022-01-23 19:17:48 +0000 UTC
