Podcast 42 - I'm a Hustler, baby
Added 2021-02-07 19:00:03 +0000 UTCJonny tries to get Richard to go splits on a weird old car with glass doors.
Also in this episode, Nights In White Satin, Jeff Bezos dropping off his resignation like an Amazon driver, the rank incompetence of Thomas the Tank Engine and Postman Pat, Covid vaccines that sound like crap cars, and why don't women email this show?
Plus, the glacial depreciation of Toyota Land Cruisers, the fear of swimming near massive ships, the never-seen AMG GT four door, and the secret petrolhead life of Captain Sir Tom Moore.
Comments
I wonder if either of you have ever come across the Africar. No doubt it has registered at some point. A perhaps even more worthy experiment than a Hustler, if you can find one, which I doubt. Perhaps you could build one, if the plans are still knocking about. https://silodrome.com/history-africar/
Chris Rayner
2021-02-17 20:16:05 +0000 UTChttps://images.app.goo.gl/1hZwxQEB4kVceAVq8
Mike Rodger
2021-02-13 11:41:36 +0000 UTCThere’s a hustler based ice cream van that does the rounds in East Lothian.
Mike Rodger
2021-02-13 11:37:42 +0000 UTCAlso on the food throwing front, in the 80s I attended a festival at Donington and was rendered unconscious by a full cardboard package of table salt that someone had hurled from further back in the crowd (or possibly launched from a trebuchet as by all accounts I flew forward on impact. I suppose I should count my blessings, it was a hot day, the beer was flowing and back then it was quite common to empty your 2 litre bottle of cheap lager, bladder-fill it back up, and then hurl the bottle towards the stage...
Snowy
2021-02-12 16:57:18 +0000 UTCI was chatting to a mate of mine last night who had an ST220 and loved it, but advised that despite being well cared for it "rotted like a pear". Or maybe "like a pair (of somethings, who knows)". Thought it would be rude to ask what the blithering shit he was on about. In other news, should have bought the Mk2 Focus ST3, fabulous cars if a touch ASBO.
Snowy
2021-02-12 15:34:48 +0000 UTCThe seats remind me of https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0979/3558/products/paolozzi-Calcium-night-light-poets_1_1024x1024.jpg?v=1542120442
Dave Smith
2021-02-11 11:04:20 +0000 UTCOn the food throwing front.......My mum has been blind for 50 years and had quite a few guide dogs. In the 80's she had a Labrador that had never quite had the Lab food craving trained out of her. She was known to lift a pack of sausages off the butchers outside shop display without even slowing her pace and thus without my mum even knowing. One day on the way home from town on a particularly inclement winter day said dog made a lunge to the left, Mum pulls her up suspecting that she's scavenging and finds a discarded meat pie, steak slice pasty or similar in the dogs mouth. (never discovered what other than it was cold, wet and meaty). She removes it from the dogs mouth and hurls it away only to be met by a yelp as the pasty has hit some poor chap standing at the bus stop full in the face. He found the incident less amusing than I did when she recounted it to me later that day.
Matthew Aves
2021-02-09 16:47:02 +0000 UTCWas this dealer Roy Lanchester’s cousin? It’s just something about the way he managed to make the wheel arch liner fall out by shutting the door.
Ed Storer
2021-02-09 15:49:45 +0000 UTCTonight live in session - Tactile Undergarment.
Bradley Winder
2021-02-08 21:28:27 +0000 UTCOn the subject of narrow gauge railways....I believe the one Jonny spoke about was featured in a 1965 episode of the Avengers (RIP Diana Rigg) called “The Gravediggers”
Jeffrey Smith
2021-02-08 14:23:36 +0000 UTCYes thats it!
Jake Bell
2021-02-08 13:34:59 +0000 UTCOld cabbage on a hot radiator - Jonny
Smith and Sniff
2021-02-08 13:33:01 +0000 UTCIt has a essence of dog, but with undertones of onion.
Jake Bell
2021-02-08 13:31:49 +0000 UTCI'll try not to judge the Mondeo ST220 on the basis of your, admittedly quite troubling, experience. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2021-02-08 13:18:48 +0000 UTCThat Crown estate is amazing. Are those crushed velour seats? Richard
Smith and Sniff
2021-02-08 13:18:07 +0000 UTCI can imagine what that Land Cruiser smells like. Sort of wet dog rolled in old milk. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2021-02-08 13:17:46 +0000 UTCThe bullet proof land cruiser talk reminds me of a someone i know, a farmer, who has managed to get to 600k miles in his. And still going strong. https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/4x4s/high-hour-horsepower-toyota-lc5-clocks-600000-miles
Jake Bell
2021-02-08 11:35:41 +0000 UTCPerusing that Middlesbrough JDM importer’s stock, and Richard’s ideal dog car is right there - a straight six Crown estate! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOYOTA-CROWN-2-5-INLINE-6-ENGINE-ESTATE-JDM-/353373449365?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292 Either that or just go find a nice Volvo V60, maybe an R-Design T4, and get down with the pleasantly mundane.
Ian Phillip
2021-02-08 11:24:31 +0000 UTCSale of the Century had me in stitches. Oh and Garden Railway... pah! You need a Garden Trolleybus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlgp2olfKaQ
Paul Sharp
2021-02-08 11:18:51 +0000 UTCI had a bad experience with a Mondeo ST220. I'd wanted one for a long time as a micro-barge that was relatively fun for a dreary commute. I found one for sale from a little dealer near Stevenage, went to view it, had a little drive and we settled on a price. All seemed good and I agreed I'd come back in a couple of days with the cash and take it home. Time passed and the deal was done. Within 1 mile of leaving the dealer, the engine malfunction light came on and the car was a bit hesitant when pulling away. Not a problem, I thought, and turned around to go back to the dealer what's up. The dealer was clearly annoyed about my almost immediate return and wouldn't accept there was a problem with the car. He decided he'd take it out for an Italian tune-up with me in the passenger seat. The next 10 minutes went by in a bit of a blur as the Mondeo was pretty comprehensively ragged around the outer network of large roundabouts around Stevenage. My life flashed before my eyes several times as we understeered across Hertfordshire with Spandau Ballet's Gold blaring out of the stereo, unharmoniously accompanied by various honks and toots by angry traffic. We arrived back at the dealership, the front tyres now exhibiting visible *lateral* scrub marks and the exhaust ticking like an absolute bastard. He declared the car was absolutely tip-top despite the engine malfunction light. I asked for my money back. He got more vocal stating this was the best example of an ST220 to ever grace the planet but eventually agreed to a refund, angrily slamming the drivers door, which resulted in the front off-side wheel arch liner falling out. I imagine every purchase of an ST220 goes a bit like this. I ended up getting a mk3 Focus ST3 instead. Epilogue: Every time I hear 'Gold', I think about nearly dying in Stevenage at the hands of angry lunatic.
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2021-02-08 09:49:06 +0000 UTCThe petrol Freelander 2 is ULEZ compliant. Rare but definitely worth it. Wish I’d bought a petrol now I’m WFH.
David Daley
2021-02-08 09:47:08 +0000 UTCOhhh, maybe that's what Jonny was thinking of. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2021-02-08 09:40:29 +0000 UTCYou've passed over the model village fight at the end of Hot Fuzz, the dangers of miniature church spires...
Peter Norrish
2021-02-08 08:36:56 +0000 UTCSounds like the voice of experience there. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2021-02-08 08:34:31 +0000 UTCNever buy an ex military Land Rover, driven by idiots maintained by morons, if it’s low mileage it’s been parked up on a tank park and ignored for years just rusting away and festering so you’ll spend more time fixing it than driving it
neil bowness
2021-02-08 01:58:54 +0000 UTCLoved this podcast guys. Just listened to it after watch Jonnys pub quiz which was great. May have cheated on some of the questions...
zain ali
2021-02-07 21:54:55 +0000 UTCI’d forgotten about the Hustler. All I can say is that Chops is/ was right. Divorce fuel right there.
Ant Brown
2021-02-07 20:01:38 +0000 UTCPostman Pat episode with Ted's boat which includes recreated scenes from Jaws. 👍
Maurice Barnes
2021-02-07 19:27:41 +0000 UTC
