Podcast 38 - show notes
Added 2021-01-11 08:28:57 +0000 UTCIn case you're interested in any of the things discussed in this week's show.
Singer ACS: http://bit.ly/38rPPP3
Safaried 1977 911 Targa for sale: https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1294328
Secret Fords book: http://bit.ly/39k0fPY
The Real R3 Story book: https://www.rover200.org.uk/shop
Mutated Rover R3s created in the 1990s to test a planned new platform with lengthways engines and front-wheel-drive: https://twitter.com/andyshaw3d/status/1337122098360233990?s=20
New Kia logo: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/kia-logo-branding/
Die Hard colouring book: http://amzn.to/3s8zk2d
That weirdly soothing N-gauge model railway film: https://youtu.be/1b7cP15JAMw
An old ship being deliberately sunk: https://youtu.be/XavoiJxK0ck
Ekranoplans and the Caspian Sea Monster: http://bit.ly/2XtaITG
Jonny's Late Brake Show YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CARPERVERT
Boring Car Trivia volume 2: http://amzn.to/2La8KFC
Comments
The Technic Wrangler can join the Defender as a boxy model that somehow still looks wrong. Any Technic could be improved by being placed on the flatbed truck (8109), to explain the totaled look.
Reed
2021-01-18 05:35:42 +0000 UTCThere used to be a restaurant (a pretty good one!) here in Bennington, Vermont, named Alldays and Onions. Rather curious name until I learned what it referenced. Then it was brilliant!
autoscribe74
2021-01-14 01:26:26 +0000 UTCI congratulate KIA for trying to update their logo; however when the company's name can also be read as "killed in action", maybe recreating a brand name would help
Colin Kao
2021-01-13 16:48:22 +0000 UTCthe slimming down of these logos with reduced embellishments – which includes Kia’s removal of the roundel from its old logo – also suggests a “lighter ecological footprint”.
Hedders
2021-01-13 13:04:41 +0000 UTCI actually think the Technics stuff gets a pass on bespoke parts to finish it off. For me the whole point and the fun of Technics is all the mechanical stuff that goes on underneath the body. Therefore some bespoke panels to go over the top of it are OK because the body isn't the reason i build Technics. I have used my Technics models to explain many mechanical things to people such as differentials, push rod suspension and gearboxes. I actually think Lego should make small kits of those specific parts so you can have little models of different types suspension and steering systems. They would be brilliant educational tools.
Mat Guest
2021-01-13 04:44:16 +0000 UTCAnother Brit expat in the US. I’m eagerly anticipating the day I can wear my ‘All Days and Onions’ sticker with pride and confuse the locals even more than my Geordie accent currently does.
P S
2021-01-13 02:59:44 +0000 UTCFor all your CAT D repair needs: https://rebrickable.com/home/
Luke
2021-01-12 19:54:41 +0000 UTCWe'll get around to merchandise one of these days. Assuming there's anyone strange enough to want a shirt with SPOWAAATAAAAAAAH written on the front or similar.
Smith and Sniff
2021-01-12 17:12:38 +0000 UTCOh yes. Very cool.
Smith and Sniff
2021-01-12 17:11:37 +0000 UTCIn an effort to annoy the woman to whom I'm related by marriage, I've been building my shirt drawer around car, read Porsche, themed gear. Hard to buy merchandise of the Late Brake Show et al here in the former British Colony. Blip Shift has been the goto for car enthusiasts spppoort wear for many of the better US based car podcasts. Might be a good revenue stream for the shows.
Stigfan
2021-01-12 15:16:56 +0000 UTCWhile walking the dog, neighbors had to of questioned my sanity.
Stigfan
2021-01-12 15:04:43 +0000 UTCIsn't that true of most of the Lego sets these days? They are designed to be one thing which in my mind is missing the whole point of it being Lego. I remember when I got my Lego Car Chassis in 80 or 81, I think I made the actual thing on the box once and then tore it all apart so I could go my own why with it.
Mark Elliott
2021-01-12 08:55:39 +0000 UTCWhat a great episode - although laughing out loud in a supermarket queue while listening to stories about Ford procurement department’s grubby draw .... you should have added a warning !!
Mark Richards
2021-01-11 20:52:10 +0000 UTCYou nailed it with the Lego technic comment. When I was a kid in the 80s, Lego and Lego technic were kits of generic parts that when assembled in a certain order, made a model that vaguely resembled something. These days the kits appear to contain a large number of parts that are bespoke to that particular model and thus removes half of the fun for me which was taking very generic parts to create an identifiable object.n Also, good luck reassembling your Bugatti model into a farm yard, sweet shop or cable car. It'll just end up looking like a breakers yard Bugatti. Also, have you seen the price of the stuff...? Jesus wept...! Tamiya for me all the way 😎👍
Rup (FastAsFunk)
2021-01-11 19:59:01 +0000 UTCNothing to add other than the podcast had been a definite highlight of 2020 and more than happy to contribute if it continues.
PS Leighton
2021-01-11 18:16:19 +0000 UTCYou forgot a link to a Panther Rio. The Donald Trump of cars apparently... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/1977_Panther_Rio_2.0.jpg
Peter Heamon
2021-01-11 16:07:44 +0000 UTCWow, I'd have loved on of those as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s. We basically had to go straight from pulling Lego cars with big wheels(i.e. those from the Car Chassis Techincal Set) using string to a Tamiya RC car :)
Mark Elliott
2021-01-11 16:03:15 +0000 UTCLove the ekranoplan/abandoned tech chat. I'm somewhat obsessed with giant overland vehicles, especially from the Soviet Union, I actually made a video about my favourite, the 'Kharkovchanka' - https://youtu.be/f6R-h06IsJw
Calum Gillies
2021-01-11 14:32:16 +0000 UTCOh wow, well spotted!
Smith and Sniff
2021-01-11 13:06:58 +0000 UTCThe last time I saw a reference of the Caspian Sea Monster was in one of the unFlemming Bond books. I think 'Devil May Care'. The YouTube channel 'Big Car' recently did an amusing video on Panther.
Henry Lisk
2021-01-11 11:41:38 +0000 UTCDo I get a Sniff and Smith Podcast spotters badge for this? https://youtu.be/JkQWat_y884?t=144
Mark Elliott
2021-01-11 11:35:57 +0000 UTCOn the subject of model railways have you seen this? https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/ Definitly worthy of an S&S roadtrip one day I've become strangely interested on Hornby trainsets and Scalextrix but I know I wouldn't really to play with them. I would build it and then it would just gather dust.
Robin White
2021-01-11 10:02:07 +0000 UTCAs Jonny consistently starts the podcast by stating how bloody cold he is, perhaps he needs an Action Blanket https://hebtro.co/product-category/action-blankets/
David Daley
2021-01-11 09:42:59 +0000 UTCCracking show today :). On the thread of Technic Lego Cars and Tamiya, have you seen the Lego Off-Road buggy that’s very much doing the Tamiya Grasshopper type thing?
Kit Fletcher
2021-01-11 09:42:11 +0000 UTC
