Jonny and Richard make another feeble attempt to read out listeners' messages. Topics covered include John Michael Jar, Kick by INXS in a convertible, the lost art of chatting about hifi separates,...
2022-07-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA handy compendium of things from the podcast
Hello and welcome to the Smith and Sniff encyclopaedia, a handy compendium of some of the things talked about in the podcast which might ...
2022-07-12 14:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re leading this week with a picture of Richard’s old XJR, as it looked when he owned it. It still looks like this, thankfully. Incidentally, the car has now been sold but unfortunately not t...
2022-07-10 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard attempt to read out some messages from listeners. Topics prompted by this and other things include, the words pigeons might be saying, what makes up fruits of the forest yoghurt, ...
2022-07-10 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have a couple of pics of the latest Honda HR-V, the surprisingly long wand of the Koenigsegg CC8S (not CCS as they said on the show), the cacky Ford airbag wheel in a ‘90s Aston Vira...
2022-07-03 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard's in an echoey room and Jonny has a question. Also in this episode, the new Honda HR-V, slipping clutches, how school proms help classic car maintenance, trying to get comfortable in an Aud...
2022-07-03 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead our pics this week with the classic Mansell look being sported by (a slightly older) Nigel Mansell at Goodwood. Then it’s a random scrapbook of photos from Jonny and Richard’s visit inc...
2022-06-26 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard are at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed where they've encountered Nigel Mansell, tried to gatecrash Gordon Murray, met a sweary Le Mans driver, seen a tiny record attempt car, ...
2022-06-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, due to an error the wrong show notes were posted giving a surreal, context-less series of pictures and nothing else. This probably made as much sense as the normal notes anyway but here we g...
2022-06-19 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Jonny discovers a new genre of German cinema and Richard has been inundated with hill parking advice. Also in this episode, countries where the moustache is acceptable, Tom Selleck's control of a t...
2022-06-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead this week with Dame Judi Dench and a totally authentic photo of her engaged in a tricky belt job on a Bentley W12. After that, there’s one of those orange juice machines you definitely sh...
2022-06-12 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostJonny's had a new TV show idea. Also in this episode, the excitement of real life jousting, Honda Insight magnesium sumps, being sick behind an ornamental bush, the old days of boozy car launches, ...
2022-06-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. You might notice this week’s podcast sounds very, very slightly different which is because a) Richard was recording from his new shed and b) it was late evening and, without mentioni...
2022-06-05 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostJonny's been driving a 6R4 and Richard has visited a garden centre. Also in this episode, challenging fly tippers, getting yanked off DC current, things left in Richard's new house, what car makers...
2022-06-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We start this week with a lovely pic of a Mercedes S-Class from 1979, which is definitely the year Jonny was born, followed by a car from the year Richard was born, an Jaguar XJ-S. Yes. Finally, we...
2022-05-29 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard pick cars from the years they were born, once Jonny's remembered what year that was.
Also in this episode, electric scooter racing, casually flutey behaviour, seeing A...
2022-05-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. We lead this week with the most Bristol picture ever. The joy is in the details. Then we have Jonny as he recorded this show with a glass of wine, naturalist Steve Backshall being casu...
2022-05-22 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny once went backwards up a runway and Richard has been haranguing a member of Blur.
Also in this episode, meeting Steve Backshall behind a sofa, refusing to use 5th gear, never chec...
2022-05-22 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
T'is true. We've decided to tret yers reet this Father's Day (or at least help someone else to tret you right).
That's why we've rustled up a couple of special Dad Day Smith and Sniff cards, ...
2022-05-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, well, well. What have we got here then? We start with the Silverstone 'wing' (elaborate building movement railway, not pictured), a classic example of zany Eurospecs, and the new Range Rover ...
2022-05-15 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jonny's been to the Autocar awards and Richard is obsessed with GR86 numbers.
Also in this episode, the canals and moveable buildings of Silverstone, the joy of unusual Eurospecs, Gerry...
2022-05-15 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. Welcome to the late-running show notes for episode 107. Given how low energy it was, perhaps the notes turning up two days late is appropriate. Anyway, what have we got for this week? ...
2022-05-10 08:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostJonny's just got off a plane and Richard has been out drinking so it's a low energy show in which topics covered include Wherever I Lay My Hat lyrical confusion, the hungry horse Porsche, changing ...
2022-05-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead this week with the Ferrari Pinin concept, just because it’s the nicest looking photo we have. That’s followed by the Hyundai Richard was thinking of (it’s called a Bayon apparently) a...
2022-05-01 17:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard wonder why singer Michael McDonald keeps buying cheap foldable fake Aviators from gas stations and then accidentally sitting on them.
Also in this episode, the Kia Sta...
2022-05-01 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Slightly later than normal because the Patreon website is being a twat we have some show notes to go with this week’s podcast. From the picture desk there’s Richard driving a GT-R in America, a...
2022-04-25 07:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostBeset with technical problems including crashing software and randomly rebooting laptops, Jonny and Richard finally managed to record this show of nonsense with a few unwanted pops and squelches on...
2022-04-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello gang. What a lot of pics we seem to have this week. We lead, of course, with the subject of this show's title, followed by the king of the deep Vs, Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. Then som...
2022-04-17 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostJonny has discovered a new type of Mitsubishi and it's good news for your granddad.
Also in this episode, hot V versus deep V versus Flying V, Britain's sleeziest alloy wheel, going rou...
2022-04-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. Talking, as we are in this podcast, of sports people in free cars, we start this week with a picture from a gentler time of the Aston Villa squad with an Montego. Then we've got eviden...
2022-04-10 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post