Podcast 71 - Road rage and the SAAB detective
Added 2021-08-22 18:00:04 +0000 UTCJonny's been in a ruck with a van driver and Richard has some TV show ideas.
Also in this episode, Karmann chameleon, the Hindenburg of motorhomes, the best time to buy a sledge, why moss is an integral part of Land Rovers, the most SAAB man in the world, and how Jeremy Clarkson likes journey length to be expressed.
Plus, listener updates on public information films, new age traveller vehicles, cooling towers, expensive tractors, and how thick dogs are.
Finally, we ask why don't trains abroad look quite right, what's the deal with LPG and should you clean your car keys?
Comments
In a beautiful convergence of the episode about public safety videos and this episode that covered road rage, one of the road safety organisations in Australia put this ad on tv a few years ago https://youtu.be/JqWO7fzwSLM The 'pinky' became a great hand signal to further infuriate any d*ckhead roadraging drivers
Alan Arthur
2021-08-30 04:53:26 +0000 UTCI bloody hate it when I take justifiable retaliation against aggressive driving and the missus just shoots me down! WhT do you do when you’re not supported?
Neil Reed
2021-08-28 17:23:25 +0000 UTCColour: Yes
Ger O'Connor
2021-08-24 17:45:24 +0000 UTCIs this the complaints department? At almost exactly the 20 minute mark in the most recent podcast the word "sport" was used and pronounced correctly. The presenters made no attempt to deviate from the anecdote to do their signature, drawn out, Essex pronunciation. Maybe you could fix this by having an unreasonably loud BEEEEEP added that will confuse people listening while driving new cars?
Battles
2021-08-23 21:03:06 +0000 UTCSpeak for yourself, I love watching those badly filmed Saturday night street fights that get forwarded to me on Whatsapp by my mental cousin.
Battles
2021-08-23 21:01:22 +0000 UTCGreat podcast guys! My dad has an fr-v, pretty good cars. He has the 2.0 petrol manual. Gear stick is in weird position, like an ep3 type r but worse. However, I did help my dad with his rear indicator bulb. He could only find a clear bulb in his spares so I got my tamiya x-26 clear orange paint out and gave it a good lick of paint. Looks like a genuine amber bulb
zain ali
2021-08-23 17:55:08 +0000 UTCOn the LPG side of things, a few years back I pulled in behind a chap filling up his LPG converted Hyundai Atoz. At what point does a Hyundai Atoz become so ruinously thirsty that an LPG conversion is required?
Nik Howard
2021-08-23 16:15:31 +0000 UTCIts a Swedish thing... I met a Volvo Botherer... sorry, Detective... he had a full list of all Volvo 850 T-5R and later 850Rs that appeared for sale or on forums over a good 10 years and was facinated by one I photographed locally that he'd never seen before!
Automotive Tales
2021-08-23 16:06:56 +0000 UTCOTSOT with road rage, I blow kisses and give heart hands. The offenders tend to get very confused and I enjoy it immensely.
Jeffrey Smith
2021-08-23 12:44:12 +0000 UTCAlways wondered how those multi colour flip paint jobs are shown on the V5 and insurance docs. Do you just pick one of the predominant colours?
Phil R
2021-08-23 12:18:12 +0000 UTCI honestly never thought Jonny would be the type of person to succumb to the irritation of roadpricks. I get it - believe me, I totally get it - that these people can drive you to places of irritation not seen outside kids' violin lessons but please don't rise to it because nobody wins, and nobody wants to read about Jonny Smith being stabbed to death in an LA Fitness car park by Boo Radley's less attractive brother. Please just let it go. Sorry for the lecture on that side of things. Warm regards, Slighty disappointed of Fenland.
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2021-08-23 12:13:07 +0000 UTCDuncan Dyer I didn't think of it like that. Perhaps I was thinking too Escobar. Yeah the house is very low key but the cars definitely aren't.
George Wade
2021-08-23 12:05:39 +0000 UTCRegarding expressing disappointment with other road users behaviour I find the very simple 'thumbs down' gesture to be very effective. Its not aggressive at all, and because of that every over-reaction will only cause the other person to feel more silly. I do sympathise with Jonnys situation there, I tend to go for high-beams blaring rather than horn, but life is too short to be worrying about these geebags for any more time than necessary!
Ger O'Connor
2021-08-23 10:59:03 +0000 UTCGlad to hear that that brake-checking tomfoolery didn't escalate into blind, ugly violence. Which let's face it, none of us want to see.
Spartacus Mills
2021-08-23 10:50:55 +0000 UTCThat's classic drug dealer spec - spend all your money on cars and matching personalised number plates but keep the house low key... someone near me not only has the obligatory black customised Rangy, but also an M3 and a tweaked Movano (with no sign-writing so surely not ideal for advertising if you have a legit business) all with personalised plates that differ only by the last letter. He lives with wife and 3 kids in an upstairs flat with no on-premises parking so everyone has to navigate around his fleet taking up half the street. I should say I don't know that he's a drug dealer but he's definitely putting out the vibe
Duncan Dyer
2021-08-23 09:51:37 +0000 UTCThank you for the mention of my message chaps. I don't know whether hearing that Jonny's dad likes to clean a key makes me feel super old or not though OTSOT. Also whilst I remember, on the subject of same car households I drive past a fairly mundane looking bungalow every morning and the other day I noticed parked outside like a line of bodyguards were 3 black RR Spoooooaaarrrrtttsssss. This seems very strange to me because if you were a wealthy drug dealer with the need for three Spoooooaaarrrrtttsssss then a bungalow is a weird choice of abode. 🤔
George Wade
2021-08-23 06:26:31 +0000 UTCCounty were around for a long time converting Ford (and Fordson) tractors (way before the TW models mentioned by your correspondent) … they were making Ford trucks into 4WD before that. Started in 1929 by the Tapp brothers !! https://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/tractor-brands/county/county-tractors.html …. We’re taken over by Ford/Case-New Holland (CNH) in the ‘80s.
Eugene Ryan
2021-08-23 00:22:01 +0000 UTCEmma says thank you!
Geoff Evans
2021-08-23 00:06:58 +0000 UTCRichard mentioned his brother owning a Mitsubishi Magna in Australia. If it was the 3.5L V6, that engine is regarded as one of the best on offer at its time. Despite being front wheel drive (though all wheel drive versions were available), the Magna's V6 was more powerful and faster than the V8 Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons of the era. My dad has owned over 10 Magnas over the years and swears by them but in the case of changing the rear bank of spark plugs, swears at them
Jordan Mulach
2021-08-22 23:10:41 +0000 UTCI wanted it ‘stock’ / original so removed the extraneous badges although on reflection ‘stock’ / original was also strange. The original owner had stumped up for the boot spoiler, but hadn’t stumped up for alloys so it had the base model chromed wheel trims that were like a cross between a telephone dial and your grannys stainless steel serving plate. Should strange option choices be preserved?
Jim Galbraith
2021-08-22 22:37:30 +0000 UTCThe previous owner of my first car (‘89 900i) really loved his SAAB, and so did I (this was in 2002). A Lovely gent, who had waxed it regularly but had also bought additional “SAAB” badges to stick on here and there.
Jim Galbraith
2021-08-22 22:26:43 +0000 UTCWhat are the chances burned out horn contacts could cause a bad earth meaning your EV fails to charge, asking for a friend
Paul Sharp
2021-08-22 21:29:59 +0000 UTCSpeaking of train station jingles, I was on holiday in Romania in 2016, and my friend and I went to Brasov for the day so we could go to Bran Castle and Rasnov Citadel. Upon our return to the station we were a little bit early, but I found the announcements there are preceded by a 8 second jingle. I'm all for getting people's attention, but that's rather long. Not the greatest sound quality, but it starts at 1:42: https://youtu.be/IMFocPmdJYs?t=102 Also, Rain Within was a mid 80s power ballad from Michael Bolton
Tim Organo
2021-08-22 20:11:44 +0000 UTCHad a 'being taught by their parents' learner pull the narrow street move on me a while back. I was in the bobtail Discovery, which usually scares people into getting their shit together but the learner stayed on my side of road and completely ignored the available pull-in spaces. Gave the brakes a good work out, it was down hill and that thing is heavy.
Matt Tester
2021-08-22 19:47:20 +0000 UTCI was a train driver for a while, between stints in the RAF. They were shit: slow, unreliable and smelly. A bit like the C-130 Hercules, although they normally broke down somewhere nice, not in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of angry passengers.
Peter Heamon
2021-08-22 19:09:50 +0000 UTC
