Podcast 51 - Vigilante car detailing
Added 2021-04-11 18:01:01 +0000 UTCJonny has an idea for spreading a little kindness and Richard now lives in a noisy Kia neighbourhood.
Also in this episode, vehicular Vocoders, unexpectedly good heel and toeing cars, racing driver yoga, Helmsman's mayonnaise, the Die Cast Donor, and once-a-year irritant Flant Flanstead.
Plus, falling down a wormhole with the Knight Rider Historians, putting the General Lee in context, how a train crash made for better eighties action show stunts, and a strange spin-off show for Mr T.
Comments
Reference the story of the guys who drove off in the wrong Mini, the keys fitting another similar car made me recall a trip to Silverstone in the mid 70s in a friend’s Marina Coupe he lost the keys so sought the help of the AA who thought the easiest solution to the problem was to find another Marina owner in the car park as the keys would probably be the same!! I have heard that keys/locks around that time were made 750 plus at a time all the same!!
David Harwood
2021-05-03 15:22:56 +0000 UTCI used to stealth wash a neglected Mk2 Golf GTI that parked on the same street as me when I was done washing mine. Once the owner had worked out there was no sinister intent, they were fine with this, and ended up selling me the car for the cost of the remaining VED (about £50).
Thom B.
2021-04-28 19:35:27 +0000 UTCGood shout 👍🏻
Chris Jarrett
2021-04-16 17:18:51 +0000 UTChttps://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/saturday-1st-sunday-2nd-may/1987-honda-acty-van/ Perfect for the activity of vigilante car detailing? I think so! 😂😂😂
Chris Jarrett
2021-04-16 13:21:03 +0000 UTCGreat ep as ever, but the vocoder/autotune thing always upsets me. The vocoder mixes a musical note with volume/filter modulation such as a human voice. This is ELO - Mr Blue Sky or the Cylons from original Battlestar Galactica. Autotune is a separate thing entirely and the autotune warbling robot effect comes from deliberately using it too aggressively. Also don't confuse the Vocoder with the talkbox, which is Daft Punk Harder Better Stronger Faster or Peter Frampton. APOLS FOR PEDANTRY, LOVE YOU.
Tony Coles
2021-04-16 09:59:51 +0000 UTCAnother fantastic podcast, chaps. Joining in with your film replica car chat, I’d have a replica of Herbie. There’s a young guy local to me that has a replica Herbie (it’s very alike) and the attention it gets at shows and out on the road is lovely.
Daniel Achterhuis
2021-04-14 10:58:21 +0000 UTCNot quite vigilante, but a carpenter who worked for my dad had a Mondeo estate with burgundy paint that had faded to an offensive level. One Saturday, Dad felt charitable and spent a few hours polishing it up for him whilst he was working on our house and it looked like new (years of watching the ‘Mer Man’ at car shows had paid off). The car was stolen two days later. I don’t think you can quite tell the boss off for cleaning your car, but we all blamed dad anyway.
Tom Clynes
2021-04-13 20:36:52 +0000 UTCI loved this episode. Apart from a moment right at the end when the nice Japanese lady started talking and it scared the shit out of me! (I was listening through headphones and I thought somebody had snuck up behind me!)
James Dilkes
2021-04-13 18:53:42 +0000 UTCMy father once came to me asking why he couldn’t start my Mk1 Golf to move it out of the way of his car. It turned out that he was trying to start it using my brother’s girlfriend’s Metro key. Her key had opened the door of the car but the ignition barrel was presumably slightly less worn out than the door lock.
Tim C
2021-04-12 22:02:30 +0000 UTCThis is what Mondays are for, even though you put it on here on Sunday 🤔. Thank again guys, was laughing good and proper today😂😂
Chris Jarrett
2021-04-12 21:38:50 +0000 UTCListened again for the 2nd time today, I haven't laughed so much in ages. Feel free, if you are in the area, to give my car a machine polish or anything else you think necessary. It's not too bad but could always use some TLC. Also, to echo someone above, addresses are relatively easy.
Graham Dallas
2021-04-12 19:38:31 +0000 UTCWhat a brilliant year of podcasts. Loved it all, particularly when Jonny is hung over.
Phil Tordoff
2021-04-12 19:09:21 +0000 UTCI think this might be the finest pod yet. It probably helps that I’m 50 and remember Dukes, Knight and ATeam although I have no great desire to revisit then. A mate got hold of the Pilot Episode of the Six Million Dollar man and said I should watch it. I wish I hadn’t it was terrible, possibly the most wooden acting I have ever witnessed. Best to leave that stuff in the past.
Mark Elliott
2021-04-12 17:10:56 +0000 UTCIf you do decide to take up vigilante detailing, you can come down to North Hampshire where I live. I have a neighbour opposite who drives a battered new-shape Beetle which has the longest suffering dying starter motor. Every morning at 6:30am, we are woken up by the bastard thing screaming as it painfully gets the car started. I have thought about getting them one from a breakers yard and just leaving it on their driveway, but they are of a rather 'do as you like' persuasion and would probably leave it there along with their ornamental rubble bag from Jewson as a garden feature rather than fit the bastard thing. I will buy it if you stealth-fit it!
Snowy
2021-04-12 15:14:49 +0000 UTCThe original Ford Ka is another car that's great for heel and toe. In other news, one of my favourite things about Knight Rider was watching the scenes where KITT is driving autonomously and catching those little scenes where the stunt driver was disguised as a seat. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/npdx86ustilwtcpfwyfc.jpg More funny was that there were a couple of episodes where the stunt driver was clearly quite a portly gentleman and it looked like KITT had a badly stuffed armchair for a driver's seat.
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2021-04-12 12:27:46 +0000 UTCMay have been a mistake to listen to this just before bed, as when trying to nod off I - for some reason - came up with 'lyrics' for the Knight Rider theme, so now you have to suffer too: 'Drives down the road, crimes to be solved, here's the Knight ri-deeeeeeer' As this has now been sadly looping in my head all morning, I tried to justify this by convincing myself I'd perhaps heard someone on YouTube do similar and I'd just forgotten, and so I found this, erm, well this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqOZmgHPGSE No need to thank me.
Spartacus Mills
2021-04-12 11:41:42 +0000 UTCI actually stumbled across the Knightrider historians a couple of weeks ago and got lost in the wormhole, Bizarre!!
Alan
2021-04-12 04:32:10 +0000 UTCI found out your addresses. Sorry to be creepy. Still haven't mentioned the telegrams, sad face.
Peter Heamon
2021-04-11 23:43:35 +0000 UTCRe: Vigilante detailing... Airport Long Stay Carpark has to be the ideal opportunity. Speaking of which, and related to the multi-storey misidentification story, heard a tale of a family who returned from holiday to find their car had been stolen from the airport carpark. They got it replaced on insurance only to discover their original car still there in the long stay carpark when they went from the same airport on holiday a year later. On the original trip they had just gone to the wrong place.
Paul Sharp
2021-04-11 23:10:05 +0000 UTCOne of the funniest things I've heard in a long time ' I can't get close to X cars without gagging, so I don't bother' 😂😂😂 Totally agree Richard. Another top notch broadcast gents.
Noel Huggett
2021-04-11 22:10:20 +0000 UTCI only scratched the surface of the KR wormhole a while back, just the video where they found the F.L.A.G truck. Movie car-wise, I'd pick Big Bopper or the Ambulance from Cannonball, with the correct engine of course. Also Mrs. T is my mother and she can talk tough.
Matt Tester
2021-04-11 20:05:15 +0000 UTCHave you chaps thought of having a PO box? I feel like we all may enjoying sending you gifts/random crap
Peter Norrish
2021-04-11 20:01:20 +0000 UTCThe mini keys story reminds me of when I got up my defender and the last thing the previous owner said was “oh for some reason the keys have always been stiff in the passenger door”. Being a youth, I’d come from a focus with a flip key fob so just found this assuming and obviously the first step in the adventures of owning a def. Skip forward a few hours I went to meet my dad in pub. Releasing I still had the keys on me I chucked them on the bar and dad went blimey these are Identical to my mini keys from school (in 1977 and my def is 2001) and goes “didn’t think cars still came with a separate ignition, door and fuel keys into the 21st C”. And I’ve never had a problem with the locks since... previous owner had been blissfully unaware for 10 years and had just assumed the ‘odd’ key was for the first owner’s garage or something. This also led to a pint long story from my dad about how BL in the 70s obviously didn’t have that many combinations. As his mini ignition key used to open his mates doors so every so often the rugby team used to move the mates mini between two trees 11 feet apart leaving him to do a million point shuffle out.
Jamie W
2021-04-11 19:42:07 +0000 UTCAnother brilliant podcast guys. The. Knight rider historian channel is excellent. They also own one of the 1/8 scale models of K.I.T.T and there is one ep which had a pair of Chevy bel airs and K.I.T.T turbo boost jumps over them. This scene was done by using 1/8 scale models of the bel airs and 1/8 scale models of K.I.T.T
zain ali
2021-04-11 19:23:51 +0000 UTCThat was truly excellent, thank you, just what I needed.
Graham Dallas
2021-04-11 19:18:19 +0000 UTCYears ago I was autocrossing a slushbox car so I started left foot braking so that I could be rolling on the gas while coming off the brake. Got so comfortable doing it that I always left foot brake an auto trans vehicle now.
Ed Nicholson
2021-04-11 18:52:09 +0000 UTC
