Podcast 90 show notes
Added 2022-01-09 18:01:59 +0000 UTCHello again gang. A cluster of pics for you this week, starting with Her Majesty in her old money L322 Range Rover. Green, clear glass, dog guard, nice. Shame about the bonnet ornament. Keen Royal car watchers will note that in recent memory she's also been seen driving a Jag X-Type estate.
Also pictured this week, the 'pope-style' windows of the old Fiat Doblo, the mad roof system of a first gen Citroen Berlingo, the state of George Michael's old Range Rover in the aftermath of his death, a concealed Katie Price leaving court in a Fiat 500, and Jonny's Beetle as it came to rest after his enforced engine-off car park stop.
The exact spot in the Band Aid video where Bananarama pose by a Golf - https://youtu.be/j3fSknbR7Y4?t=147
That forum thread where someone claims to own the Bananarama Golf - https://rmsmotoring.com/forum/threads/my-mk1.181451/
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Comments
28.20 min sounds like there is a murder going down ....
Daniel Rolph
2022-01-17 01:02:12 +0000 UTCconfirmed. You just need to drill a hole in the right place and you can operate the diff lock with a long socket on an extension
Thinfourth
2022-01-16 19:18:03 +0000 UTCHey Chaps. Top work on the podcast, as always. Surely a witness protection car needs to be nippy and robust enough to get out of any car chase or roadblock scrapes with Big Tony's sicarios? A W8 or R36 Passat would be a bit too noticeable by people like us but maybe a de-badged 330D X-drive wagon on small wheels would do the trick. Run-flats vital to foil any attempts to shoot the tyres too, of course.
Alex Montgomery
2022-01-15 13:39:05 +0000 UTCIn the Peter Andre years, Katie Price used to drive a Rover 75. We got stuck next to them in traffic on the motorway on the way back from a wedding. Seemed such an unlikely car for that pair to be in that it was only when we got side by side that I was sure.
Book of the Future
2022-01-15 06:22:59 +0000 UTCGeorge Michaels old gaff in Hampstead Heath is on The Grove. Take a look on Google Street View the Range Rover is clearly outside and then use the history facility to see it parked there through the years.
Steve Morton
2022-01-12 19:07:59 +0000 UTCLizzie’s L322 has one of the cleanest MoT histories I’ve ever seen - 11 100% clear passes since new. Not even the obligatory “under-tray fitted obscuring underside components” advisory that MOT testers love marring a nice clean pass sheet with 😂
Howard Rose
2022-01-12 12:16:58 +0000 UTCTalking about cars in music videos. I recently watched the video for The Human League - Don’t you want me and was amazed to see a Rover SD1 2300 and Saab 99 turbo featured. I believe the Saab was actually Philip Oakley’s own car?
Adam Sillett
2022-01-12 08:50:35 +0000 UTCI have an S60 D4... would I qualify for witness protection I wonder......
Lee
2022-01-11 12:30:12 +0000 UTCIndeed that's my commute of choice. Always good to see people of fine taste (aka listeners here) are fellow fell peddlers.👍
Phil Griffiths
2022-01-11 12:03:23 +0000 UTCLooking back through twitter, I dug up the Webasto-roof Banarama GTI on a Mk 1 forum when Jonny posted about it Christmas 2020. It was on "The Car's the Star," in the 1990s, and is still located in the UK and in good shape if slightly modified. (The owner claims it's the same car, the options mostly fit, I expect further verification is needed.) One of the more interesting cars here locally was the Royal Tour Buick, which was used by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth for a cross-Canada tour to drum up war support. It later carried Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, as well as Charles and Diana. The owner immediately post-war used it to pull stumps and once mounted an upright piano in the back so her children could play it while driving around town. The car's now in a museum.
Brendan McAleer
2022-01-11 00:48:13 +0000 UTCHey mate, you must be Corney Fell Phil Griffith's? If so I'm a fellow WC'er! Small world etc etc....
Andrew Kirkby
2022-01-10 22:24:54 +0000 UTCWe had an early Discovery II, on which you couldn’t lock the centre diff like on previous Land Rovers. At the time I remember Land Rover claiming that by braking wheels individually across an open diff, it’s new traction control would do a better job off road than a locked diff. Of course this was horseshit, and the facelifted Discovery IIs had their centre diff lock back, with traction control just applied across each axle. Now, given the state of LR at the time, is it not plausible that rather than redesigning and retooling their transfer case without the locking centre diff, they just left off the linkage? There must be some Rover nerds who could tell us.
Aaron
2022-01-10 22:20:45 +0000 UTCAnd yes I did use the term "literally" just to see what dental bill will entail.
Phil Griffiths
2022-01-10 22:18:17 +0000 UTCFrighteningly that text describing the diff lock on the Disco2 is right. They literally didn't fit the linkage thinking traction control would do....and unsurprisingly they ended up putting it back in later on. It's not uncommon to see a full "booter" spec nailed D2 with the required popcorn limiter and badly fitted snorkel still missing it's diff lock and any sense of decorum.
Phil Griffiths
2022-01-10 22:16:41 +0000 UTCVolvo V40 D4 - anonymous but fast as buggery if you get spotted and need to do one.
Simon O
2022-01-10 22:09:26 +0000 UTCI have a Berlingo Multispace 2003 (same one as on the Grand Tour) with the excessive carpentry option. I bought it for a laugh, I don't really need a car, but it's become really popular among all my friends and family. It's been a really fun year with it and I hope it lasts a lot longer.
Ben Oliver
2022-01-10 16:22:47 +0000 UTCYou weren't to know when the podcast was recorded, but I bought a #OTSOT hoodie yesterday, so I can't help with the last link on the list, but I will be checking out the Bananarama Golf thread though, on that side of things 😉
Ant Brown
2022-01-10 13:23:04 +0000 UTCWitness protection motors, got to be something like a Skoda Octavia, Vw Passat, Audi A4, mid/large booted hatchback or saloon that if hit from behind would still be able to run because of the large rear overhang.
Tim Lewis
2022-01-10 13:02:24 +0000 UTCWitness protection motors Toyota avensis circa 2010 onwards Vauxhall insignia C max Meriva
John Hempson
2022-01-10 11:08:31 +0000 UTCI have some doubts that the Bananarama Golf is that GTI. The one in the video looks to be a Driver as Jonny said. It has the wider side trim, no rear screen blackout and it has black door cappings. All of which are signs of a Driver and not a GTI.
Jonathan Strutt
2022-01-10 10:27:30 +0000 UTCFlatnose. Seriously the coolest 911...
Sean Hamerton
2022-01-10 09:08:22 +0000 UTCThanks God service has resumed. Cracking show. 😊
Daniel Rolph
2022-01-10 02:39:51 +0000 UTCAround the millennium I worked in the Scottish sounding burger chain. The store stereo system took CDs within sealed cassettes, and the same 20 songs would play on loop for weeks at a time. One Christmas I got a set of mini screwdrivers in a cracker and I had the revelation that these were the tools that would allow me to crack open the sealed CD cassette cases. From then on, every day as soon as the big managers went home we would swap out the chain approved CD and put in our own and the store be blaring out Eminem, Rage Against The Machine and NWA. Happy times.
Giant Iain
2022-01-09 20:30:11 +0000 UTCRegarding music in shops, I worked until 2020 for a major High St beauty/pharmacy retailer. Their system still used CDs which came in the post, from Romania for some reason. The Christmas music would start mid October, with one or two tracks interspersed with normal music and announcements. Then, by December, it would be endless Christmas songs. A couple of years before I left, contractors overhauling the fire alarm system did something which stopped it working, strangely nobody rushed to fix it. To my knowledge it doesn't work to this day.
BoringCarDriver
2022-01-09 19:56:46 +0000 UTCAs of April last year the Metrocab was still in the Sandringham Museum and it did indeed run on LPG. Did Prince Philip maybe confuse it with a Range Rover P38A initially but was too polite to correct anyone?
Matt Tester
2022-01-09 18:42:56 +0000 UTCMOT ran out on the Wham! Rover in September 🕵🏻
Ian Cleary
2022-01-09 18:07:30 +0000 UTC
