The Ford F-150 Lightning is a pickup truck that runs on electricity instead of gasoline. It’s meant for people who want a truck but also want an electric drive system. The podcast mention sounds like it’s comparing or describing a specific Lightning example.
The head unit is the car’s main stereo screen and controls. If it needs a new one, it usually means the radio/audio system isn’t working well or is outdated.
Tires are what actually touch the road, so they matter for safety and grip. They’re talking about replacing old tires as part of getting the car ready.
The Volkswagen Beetle is a classic car that many people keep for a long time. Here, the host is saying they’re giving someone a 2002 Beetle, which is a specific version of that car.
A Mark IV Golf is a specific generation of the Volkswagen Golf. The host is basically saying the car is based on that Golf platform, so it’s the kind of car where you can learn common maintenance tasks.
A hot rod is a car that’s been modified to feel and look more exciting than stock. Here, it suggests this Porsche 911 E has been customized rather than kept completely original.
This is a specific older Porsche 911 variant. The “E” is a model version from the late 1960s, and the big twist here is that the car was later restored and changed to right-hand drive.
“Bahama yellow” is a specific paint color name associated with certain classic Porsche-era color palettes. Color names like this matter to enthusiasts because they can indicate originality, period-correct styling, and how the car was restored or repainted.
Right-hand drive means the steering wheel is on the right side. If a car was originally built for the US (left-hand drive), switching it to right-hand drive is a big modification that changes how the car is set up for the driver.
Bilstein dampers are shock absorbers tuned to control how the suspension moves over bumps and during cornering. Upgrading dampers is a common way to make an older 911 feel more stable and less floaty.
A tower strap brace (here branded Veltmeister) ties together suspension “towers” to reduce flex in the front structure. That can improve steering feel and consistency because the suspension geometry stays more stable under load.
A roll bar helps stop the car from leaning too much in corners. An “RS spec” version is a more performance-oriented version of that idea.
Part
braided torsion bars adjustable spring plates
Torsion bars are the springs that support the car. Adjustable spring plates let you set the ride height and handling more precisely.
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SC calipers
SC calipers are upgraded brake parts from the Porsche 911 SC generation. They’re part of a brake system improvement to help the car stop better.
Term
track adventures
“Track adventures” means the car has been used for track days—driving on a race circuit. The hosts bring it up to support that the car was cared for and used in a performance way.
A restomod is an old car that’s restored but also upgraded with newer parts. The host prefers this approach to be subtle—more like a sleeper—rather than changing the car’s look too much.
“Low mileage” just means the car hasn’t been driven very much. With older collector cars, that often makes them more desirable because there’s less wear from use.
MOMO makes steering wheels used in motorsport and enthusiast cars. The hosts are pointing out a specific MOMO wheel they’re seeing in the Porsche 911, which affects how the car feels and how “driver-focused” the interior is.
A quick-release steering wheel lets you take the steering wheel off quickly. People do this for convenience and sometimes to swap between different steering wheels depending on the drive.
The horn ring is the part of the steering wheel you press to honk. “Double horn ring” means there are two separate horn areas, which is a specific look you can spot on certain classic steering wheels.
Car on Classic is a website where you can find listings and sales info for classic cars. The hosts are saying you can browse lots of interesting cars there.
That means the car had a 2.2-liter engine, and Lotus had a hand in how it was built or tuned. The “Lotus” part is what made it special compared to ordinary cars.
That’s the name of the car’s exterior paint color—moonstone blue. It helps people describe or match the exact original color.
Car
Talbot Sunbeam Lotus
This is the Lotus-powered version of the Sunbeam, but it was sold under the Talbot name too. The point is that it was a small car with a serious engine, so it felt quick and fun.
The Dodge Avenger is a regular sedan meant for normal driving. It’s not typically known as a track car, so the podcast mention likely comes from someone testing it at an event. That’s why it stands out in the conversation.
Goodwood is a well-known racing venue in the UK. The host is saying it’s a track that feels fast but not overly punishing, so it’s easier to drive confidently.
A mandatory tire means the event requires everyone to use a specific tire. It keeps things more fair and makes the competition depend less on choosing the best tire.
Induction noise is the sound of air being sucked into the engine through the intake. They’re saying they could hear a lot of it, which usually means the engine’s intake is making itself heard.
“Track work” means driving the car on a race track for events or testing. They’re saying it’s a win when you finish and bring the car home without damage.
Car
TVR speed 12
The TVR Speed 12 is a very rare British supercar made by TVR. It’s famous for being brutally fast and for having huge performance numbers that enthusiasts still talk about.
The Cerbera Speed 12 is a very rare sports car made by TVR. It’s known for being extremely fast and for having a special, limited-run design. The podcast mention sounds like it’s tied to the car’s popularity with collectors.
“Horsepower per tonne” is a way to compare cars by combining power and weight. Higher numbers generally mean the car should feel quicker because it has more pull for its size.
The McLaren F1 is a famous supercar from McLaren that’s known for its very strong V12 engine. In this discussion, it’s being used as a comparison point for how extreme the TVR Speed 12’s numbers are.
Maximum torque is the engine’s strongest “twist” force. More torque usually helps a car get moving quickly, particularly when you’re not at the very top of the rev range.
“CCs” is the engine’s size—how much total cylinder volume it has. Bigger numbers usually mean the engine can make more power, but it’s not the only factor.
The Lancia Delta S4 is a legendary rally car from the Group B era. “Stradale” means the road version—so it’s extra special because it was built to meet the rules for racing on public roads too.
Group B was a rally racing class from the 1980s known for very fast, very extreme cars. The rules forced companies to make a limited number of road versions, so collectors and enthusiasts obsess over how many were actually built.
Homologation is the rule that says you can only race a car if the company built enough versions for the public. That’s why collectors argue about how many road cars were really produced.
The Ford RS200 is a famous Group B rally car. It’s discussed because Group B required manufacturers to build a limited number of road cars before they could race the cars.
Car
Austin Rover 6R4
The Austin Rover 6R4 is a Group B rally car from the 1980s. It comes up because Group B required manufacturers to build a certain number of road versions before racing.
Privateer rallying means people or smaller teams race cars without the manufacturer’s full factory support. Back then, some of these rare rally cars were sold to private entrants to compete.
A cam belt is a belt inside the engine that keeps the timing correct—so the valves open at the right moments. If it breaks, the engine timing can go wrong and cause expensive damage, so you need the right replacement.
A supercharger is a device that forces more air into the engine to make more power. It’s driven by the engine, so it can boost earlier and change how the car feels and sounds.
Turbocharging uses the car’s exhaust to spin a fan that pushes more air into the engine. When the turbo starts working, it can feel like a second wave of power and the engine sound changes.
The Ford RS 200 was a rally car built for a special racing era. The discussion here is about how the original body panels didn’t always fit neatly, so the car could look a bit rough even though the important parts were built for racing.
Fiberglass is a lightweight material made from glass fibers mixed with resin. The host is saying the car’s body panels were made in a way that didn’t come out very well, which affected how the car looked.
Panel gaps are the lines you see between car body panels. If they’re even and consistent, the car was built with tighter fitment; if they’re uneven, the bodywork may have been put together less precisely.
A clamshell is a big body panel section, often the front or rear, that can open or come off as one piece. If it’s “gappy,” the seams around it don’t line up neatly.
The Alfa Romeo SZ is a very rare Alfa Romeo sports car with a distinctive, angular design. The point in this clip is that you almost never see one being used for real track driving.
The Toyota Corolla is a regular, everyday car made by Toyota. It’s designed to be dependable and easy to live with, which is why so many people have owned one. In the podcast, it sounds like it’s being mentioned because of a personal connection, like a poster or a story.
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I'm Johnny Smith. I'm a reporter. And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two
friends talk about cars and many other things.
Fiesta forever. You remember we sang All Night Long in brackets All Night by Lionel Ritchie
off of the Lionel's Richies. Yes. It came on the radio this morning.
Commodore's.
Off of the Commodore's. That's right, not the Holden's, just or the or the computer from the 80s.
So that was on the radio this morning and it is a good song. It's uplifting naturally.
But it's because it's all sounding quite Mardi Gras and and then he says, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,
we're going to have a party. And I thought, hang on a minute. I thought this was the party.
So this is the pre-party.
Does this mean he hasn't started yet? Like to him, this isn't this hasn't began. This is just
spooling up. It's not clear to me.
I hadn't thought about it. I'm slightly distracted because I realized that maybe this is because
I'm from the north of England. I always think Mardi Gras is a bit like a grar that's a bit
grumpy. Oh, yeah, Mardi Gras. Cheer up, yeah, Mardi Gras. What's wrong with you? The smile on your
face. I've never heard of the term Mardi until that song by the Arctic Monkeys. Yeah. And
realized Mardi Bum, it was like, I didn't know. And I'd lived in the north and I hadn't really
heard Mardi. Must have escaped me. I think it is a northern thing. Maybe even a Yorkshire thing
that sort of bled across the Pennines. I'm not sure. But yeah, Mardi. Mardi is like,
have we talked about this before that the word mither, which I think is a kind of northwestern
thing. Miser. Mither. Stop mithering. Yes, you have. You have. I'd never heard of it. No. And
I was once at my brother's house and my brother might have said mithering,
stop mithering. My sister-in-law went, that's not a word. And my brother turned and went rich.
And I was like, it is a word. It She's official. She's from Dublin. So they
don't have mithering in Dublin. I mean, I guess they do. They just don't use that word for it. But
yeah, fussing. Just it means kind of fussing, but sort of it's not quite exactly fussing. It's
mithering. Mithering means mithering. But it seems to be a very region specific word. So I try to
use it sparingly. Yeah. So fiesta forever. Oh, yes. All night long. It's still, I still haven't
decided whether or not in Lionel's world, this isn't actually the party yet. If you think this is
the party, we haven't even got started, which made me think, I love going to parties. And I'd like
to hold a party one day soon. But I just don't think I'm organized enough to ever get around to
making the party. And what I need is someone to orchestrate the party. I'd be all right at the
party. I think I'd be good in the party. Yeah, but someone needs to help me sort it really.
That's funny, because I like parties. I like to think I'm pretty decent in a party environment.
Yeah, I bet you are rich. But I'm not, I'm not good to organize a party. Ironically,
my wife is very good at organizing parties, but she doesn't personally enjoy a party so much.
Doesn't she? No, so my birthday the other week that you came to, it was a kind of party,
it was a lunchtime, a gathering. But you know, there's sort of like what doesn't
not say people there. And it was all very nice and had a lovely lunch. And my wife organized
that beautifully without me knowing a thing about it, which I would just fail to do.
But she would never want that organized for her either, because she would just,
she's just like, No, I'd rather just go like one or two people.
She did a great job. Yeah, she did. I don't know where we're going with this, except Lionel
Richie, I think, or is he one of those people who's going, Yeah, we're going to have a party. Well,
who's organizing it Lionel? He's bringing the vibes and the music. He can't organize it. He's
not going to like set up a WhatsApp group for everybody. Oh, no. Or harvest email addresses
and try and do a group email. They go, Oh, I forgot to blind copy. And now everyone's just
replying and it's a nuisance. I think Lionel, back in the day, Lionel would have been amazing
at organizing raves before, but yeah, because I think he everyone would know that if Lionel
was around, the party was going to be exceptional. And so they've just put the word out maybe 36
hours beforehand. Lionel's like, I'm having a party. I'll tell you where it is in a bit.
And then he just wings the whole thing because he's really smooth talking and stuff. He knows a
mate with a genset. He knows a field or a warehouse that he can probably get away with.
Oh, Lionel's just pulling it all together. And he's even like nicked his friend's minibus so he
can take shitloads of people. I'm just looking at the lyrics to all night long. Oh, no, Lionel
would go in a fiesta. Because he would have to be like the nineties as well. The opening,
the first line that's not just noises is actually quite formal when you see it written down with
the commas in the correct places. Well, my friends, the time has come to raise the roof and have some
fun. Throw away the work to be done. Well, don't throw it away. Just pause it. I finished this
spreadsheet, but Lionel's here. So I'm going to chuck it all in the bin.
Well, I'm going to flush it down the lap before the cops knock on the door.
Yes. Okay. So, yeah, it's hard to tell. Is he already having the party or
this is like Lionel's preloading with a bottle of white light before he actually goes out?
That's what the song should be called. It should be called all night long in brackets,
preloading, because he has admitted to himself he's not actually organised the party,
but he's bloody going to one. He'll be a major part of it. Perhaps this song was inspired by
Lionel going down to the londis to get the bottle of cheap but strong alcohol that he would allow
him to affordably preload. And on the outside of whatever it was, or a spa or something,
we're open all night long and he thought, oh, that's a good idea for a song.
Yeah, he was. He had a bottle of QC Sherry under one arm and under the other arm.
QC Sherry. QC Sherry. And he was like, there was no white lightning,
but there was the one that sounded like white lightning cider, but it wasn't called that.
It was called white ace. So he's got a two liter opaque bottle of white ace,
which is going to chill down. But while he's waiting for it to chill down,
he's doing the QC. Yeah, the QC Sherry preload, very well known in 90s students.
Yeah, well, because I don't particularly like cider, as you know, certainly not cheap cider.
I just, it tastes acidic to me and unpleasant, but it's dangerous.
It's dangerous, but it is cheap. And when you're on a budget, and I was introduced when I was a
student in the 90s to get the big bottle of cheap cider, but then chuck a load of,
I mean, not ribena, that's a bit lavish, but like supermarket owned brand
black current cordial into it. Oh, you dirt bag. Is that Diabetes dirt bags?
No, it's like a snakebites lager and cider, isn't it? So it's just a cider and black.
It's a cider and black. Yeah. A homemade cider and black I'd never had before,
but that takes the edge off the cider. Yes. And allows the, we didn't used to call it preloading,
but it is that that's what it's now accepted to be called, isn't it?
Yeah, I didn't know it was called preloading either, but we used to, we used to definitely do it.
Because I always think of preloading as like, like gearboxes. So they do it in drag racing,
don't they? The preload. Anyway, yeah, they do. Lionel's going to have a party. Anyway, I was,
I was, I was playing this, this came on the radio on route to school. I think today's the
penultimate day of my daughter being at school. She finished school completely tomorrow.
Last GCSE. I know. And I'm going to give her her first car tomorrow, but she doesn't know it yet.
And by the time this comes out, she will have had it, even though she's not 17 yet.
She doesn't know you bought that Beetle. No, she's got no idea.
Mike, nobody, no, my son doesn't know, nobody knows. Apart from everybody listening to the
Smith and Steve podcast. So just apart from thousands of people, but that's okay. None of
them are your daughter or son. No, quite. So yeah, I'm decided I'm going to give it to her
tomorrow when she, when she finishes school and goes out with her friends and we're going to,
I'm going to take her for dinner. Not to be a spoil sport dad. Yeah. But wouldn't you be better
waiting till you get the results and see whether, you know, there's a reward for academic excellence.
With my dad cap on, I've thought about this. I might have said it to you before. I was going to
get the Beetle, which did back in March time, February, March. Yeah.
And then before her birthday in September, go through the car and do all the little jobs.
It's got a couple of dents. There's a couple of bits and bobs. It needs a new head unit.
You know, like little things, tires are old. And, and then I thought, no, do you know what,
I'm going to give it to her in this state and say, this is your first car. It's not perfect,
but it's damn pretty good. And we together are going to improve it over the next few months
over summer when you get a job. So that when you are 17, it will be like pudding and you'll
know your way around it in basic terms. You'll be able to do some bits on it with me. That's
what I hope. That's good. I like that. But what about a menu of things? If you get an A in,
I don't know, English, I will remove that dent. Here's the range of grades. Now, if you get these
grades, you will get a basic stereo. It won't even have DAB. However, if you do higher than
predicted in French, well, you can have DAB and if you do, and you can just sort of escalate,
you know, there's a scale and, and, you know, she gets, that's a really good idea.
Do they still, are they still doing A's or is it all done numbers? No, it's nine, nine's,
nine's is your kind of highest, really. And so a certain number of eights or nine's. Yes.
You know, if you got all nine's, then you can have one of those stereos where the screen slides out
like in the 90s. Yes. That's a really good idea, you know, I, because I, I know that tires are
very important, but also quite a boring thing to purchase a lot of the time. Yeah. So I actually
thought to myself, I will say to her, if you do well, I will, I will sort the tires. Oh, right.
I think I would leave the tires off the reward menu just because it feels like you can't muck
around with your first born safety, but like going, if you do slightly better than predicted,
you can have two new tires. Even better, you have three new tires. One new tire. Yes.
But you can choose which wheel gets the new tires. No, I've got too bad, but I've got to,
I've got to give it a really stealth quick clean. So, but what I thought I'm going to do
is I'm going to trick her by, I'm going to wrap up the key to my beetle in a card and say,
you're present from me as an early birthday present, but also for finishing your exams.
I've decided it's time. I've had this car for so long now. I've had this car for 30 years.
It's time for you to have it here. Have my beetle and I'd like to watch her face.
And then I will open up a sign which just says only joking. I wouldn't give you that car until
I'm dead. How about this one? Here, have a 2002 beetle instead. So that's what I think. I'm going
to do something along those lines. They're working on the car together though. That's
very wholesome. I like that. Well, I mean, look, I'm not, we're not restoring it or anything,
because fundamentally it's a Mark IV Golf, isn't it? And it's, I've bought one that the
bones are very good on. But I wanted her to know how to do things like maybe brake pads and definitely
change a wheel and tire and to be able to top up the fluids or change some of the fluids and
we're going to put a different head unit in it, hopefully. And I just thought there's annoying
things like there's some trim pieces inside which have gone a bit clattery. So we might get some
second hand ones and replace those. So yeah, that's what I'm doing, mate. Got no idea how that's
going to get in. But it feels weird. She's finishing school and I know, gosh. Yeah, speaking of
wholesomeness and daughters, I suppose, I, last weekend, my daughter wants to go for a bike ride.
I don't have a bike at the moment. Oh. And so usually when she goes, can we go for a bike ride?
I just sort of like jog alongside. Yeah. It's a beautiful day. I said, well, let's go down to,
there's an old railway line that sort of goes through Bath Bath and it's been turned into a
path. And it's nice and smooth and flat. And it's just, this is a nice cycling environment.
And I suddenly thought, well, actually, our boys bike is pretty much big enough for me to ride.
So I've jacked the saddle right up. Now, it wasn't perfect, but it did the job and we rode
along the old railway line, just the two of us together. And it was so frigging wholesome. It
was just like, this is lovely. I need to get a bike. You do. And then I suddenly realized,
I need to get a car. Well, you know, roll my sleeves up and dive into
what's out there and what I can get. I just realized, I know nothing about bicycles.
I used to know more. I used to be quite into mountain bikes, but then I learned to drive and
that all sort of went away. And now I'm just clueless. And I was sort of, and someone had said
to me a while ago, and I said, oh, I feel like I should get a bike because my kids are cycling
and stuff. And they said, don't buy a new one because there are loads of good bikes on
places like Facebook marketplace. As long as you're confident they've not been nicked.
Yes. Lots of middle-aged men sort of overspeck a bike, ride it five times and then sell it for
a quarter of its value and stuff. So just keep your eyes peeled. But I started looking and I was
like, I don't even know what I'm looking for. No, I just, it's a baffling minefield of just
stuff. Is this good? Do I want hydraulic brakes? Do I not? Is it just more stuff to go wrong? I
honestly don't know. And I got kind of slightly overwhelmed and just kind of closed the laptop
point. I'll come back to that. No, I'm with you. It's harder to buy a bike now than it is a car
in terms of the so many new genres of bikes. Yes. And that you can easily spend money that
30 years ago if I'd said, oh yeah, it'll be quite common for people to spend 10 grand on a
bicycle. I'd say you've got to be out of your mind. Yeah. But here we are.
Particularly car owners will sort of go, why would anyone buy a new car?
You've got to be out of your mind to buy a new car. Yeah. But when you don't know anything about
cars or know very little, it's just the safe option, isn't it? I totally understand because I
suddenly thought, I can't be wading through Facebook marketplace looking for bikes. And
then some of them say, oh, and I've fitted this that. I was like, is that good?
I don't know. Screw it. I'll just see what's out there new because then I sort of know it'll be
all right. And I looked at the website of a cycle shop around here and they're selling bikes for
sort of into the teens. Yeah. 13 grand for a bike. And it's like just a car for that. Yeah.
That's the problem, isn't it? It's a car. I mean, it's a car and a bike. That's like a car with
a bike in the back or on the roof. But that's yeah, yeah. So I would say find one of your
friends will statistically have an interest in cycling. I would say eBay and all the other places
are your friend. I bought I bought Wesson's mountain bike for his birthday last year.
A really amazing spec bike and it had been kept beautifully and I got it so much less. I think
it cost about I think it was nearly a tenth of what it was worth. Yeah. And if I hadn't told him
it was used, he would have presumed it was brand new. It was mega. So yeah, but of course, it's at
this point because of the podcast that we do, I ought to recommend that you buy a
mountain bike with no name. And I saw a couple on Facebook marketplace and I was like, well,
I should just buy that because it's very on brand for our podcast, but they were they were quite
far away. You need a you need a like a short distance janky one that you can leave outside
londis when you're buying some cans and it won't get stolen. But then you buy the other one, which
is a better quality ride with better gears and you actually keep it indoors, that kind of thing.
I believe because you're right as well. Types of bike is another weird thing because I don't
think there were hybrid bikes when we were basically racers and mountain bikes and then
those other ones that are neither that are just sort of bikes and folding ones for London commuters,
which no one looks cool on. Nobody is the same as electric. Nobody looks cool on them. And I
don't care what you say, you still look a bit of a prick. Yeah, Brad Pitt, Harry Styles would
look like a total spod on a folding bike. There's just it's impossible not to.
And also like really just look like you're riding an insect, I always think.
Saddle up my daddy long legs and off we go. Yeah, it's those those really long wheelbase bikes
that the people put kids in the back of a sort of pickup bed kind of thing. They always look
really heavy and uncontrollable because the wheels are too small. They've got a name. Yeah,
they didn't exist. You know, 20 years ago, 30 years ago. They've got no they've got like a
those cargo bikes. They've got like a cantilever steering system. That's it. Yes. Yeah, they're
a bit like cargo bikes. The front wheel is a long way away. It's like a tiller steer type
arrangement. It's very odd. But I think what I need is just a hybrid bike. As far as I can
work out, I don't need full mountain gravel, gravel or hybrid, I would say something like that.
Yeah. Well, I mean, if you're a Smith and sniff listener in the bath area and you've got a nice
bike to sell me that's not stolen, do drop us a line. Hello at Smith and sniff.com because
I'll be honest, I'm all at sea here. Yeah, I should add that there's someone
that's contacted us several times we come to our live show. And because we're recording,
I've totally forgotten their name. And they work in the ebike world. They're an ebike dealer. And
I keep meaning to book a demonstration of one for my dad because I am convinced that it's going
to revolutionize Bob's world. So he can then he can become like the old guy in the village that can
still pull a big wheelie because he's got a bit of assistance. And I'm hoping that I can borrow
one and if he really gels with it, I think I might pull the trigger on an ebike for Bob.
Well, anyway, look, we are supposedly and notionally a car podcast. And that's partly why
we're sponsored by car and classic. The excellent website has auctions and classifieds for a whole
range of interesting and excellent cars for sale. Every week, one of us picks another car which in
a mythical world they are buying for the other. This week, it's my turn to choose. Oh, yes. Last
week, I gave you a slightly specific brief of just get me a per show. Since you haven't given me
a brief, I thought, what does Johnny like? And there are certain things. So you like
quite brightly colored cars, you know, yellow, orange stuff like that. It's kind of up your
street, isn't it? Yeah, I do. That's true. I do. Yeah. You like hot rods? I do. Yes, I do.
But you also like Porsche 911s. And so I have in our pretend world, this week, got you this.
It's a 1969 Porsche 911 E hot rod. Oh, and it's in that. Is that Bahama yellow? I'm not sure.
It's a yellowy orangey sort of color. I love that very period. I know I love that color.
Mostly what drew me to it, first of all. Yes, I like that. Well, my little Enfield
electric drag car was lambretta, ochre, GP ochre or something. And it looked slightly orange to a
lot of people. But it was supposed to be a dirty yellow. I've just seen it in the description.
This is Bahama yellow. So yeah, it was a US spec 1968 911 E. But in the mid 90s,
it was given a full restoration and converted to right hand drive. Okay. It was originally a
two liter. It's now been given a three liter SC engine and a Type 915 gearbox or later gearbox
with an LSD and strengthened internals. It was rebuilt again in 2016 to that spec
with upgraded damper suspension, turbo tie rod, turbo steering rack,
Veltmeister tower strap brace, Bilstein dampers, the later aluminium radius arms,
larger bearings, RS spec roll bar, the braided torsion bars adjustable spring plates,
SC calipers front and rear braided hoses. It looks pretty much like a standard late
60s 911. Oh my gosh. It sits really nicely because I guess that suspension is a little bit lower.
Yeah. Do you absolutely swine of tempter and it's got some really radiant tartan going on inside?
That's it. The interior is excellent also. But for me, the icing on the cake is that
there's, it says in the ad, there's some previous owner history, including claims of past track
adventures and driver days shared with heroes such as Sterling Moss, Derek Bell, Dickie Atwood
and Vic Elford. And they've all autographed the manual. What? The car. Yeah. So I saw a manual
signed by five time Le Mans winner Derek Bell in your exquisite late 60s hot rodded Porsche.
Late 60s. I reckon this thing will go like a bastard because it's going to be light,
isn't it? They're not very heavy at all. Those cars. No, good to speak. They've been given sort of
later spec. I'm properly taken by this. That is absolutely. What the hell Richard? I haven't
got 90, what is it, 95,000? It's 95 grand. That's the only thing. It is, it is certainly
not for the casual Porsche newcomer. I feel like this is, this is, you know, proper
and it goes for proper money, but it is so good. I just love that. I'm kind of more into that than
some kinds of less than perfectly done restomod that would try and make a 911 of the 80s or 90s
look like this. Yes, because this is, this is a, you'd call it a sleeper of some sense,
but it's a 911. So it was never going to be slow, slow, but
bloody hell, Richard. So it was, it was all rebuilt 10 years ago in 2016
to bring this sort of older restoration as it were back to glory or the older
drivetrain. Blimey, heck, I wonder if they'll do a, I wonder if they'll do a par-tex with
Tokyo taxi and some other things. That's absolutely brilliant.
It is worth saying as well. It is strong money, but it is not in the general context of old 911s
by any means far fetched. It's kind of, you could really, really pucker low mileage, late 60s
car, not an RS or anything could go for that kind of cash. So this one, which I think
it feels like what they've done is tried to make it fun and usable. And I think that's what I would
like. You're good at sniffing out gifts, aren't you, Richard?
The, apparently a previous custodian, according to the ad, wrote in the car's history file,
this will be sold only to a committed Porsche 911 driver concerned with the car's dynamic
abilities and not a museum piece. Oh, okay. Okay. Which that's, that's exactly as I like it.
I'm just looking at its Momo Proto T-Po steering wheel.
Well, look, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. I am a bit, I'm a bit of a standard steering
wheel warrior though. I'm funny like that. I know what you mean. I might have to have,
I might have to have it on quick release and then have the original one on a quick release
so I can decide at the last second which wheel I want that day, which that's more me.
They don't, actually the wheels in those 911s would be, they're, they're, yeah, they are quite
nice, I suppose. They are. They've got the, the big horn ring or double horn ring type things.
Oh, wow. Look at this. Can't press it. You are naughty swines.
Again, the theater of temptations opens its doors. I know. Gladly walk in. Well, there we go.
We'll put a link to this in our description, but as ever, just one of many thousands of tasty treats
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There's auctions and also classifiers. Pluses, pluses, this, this, this. We had this thing a
while ago where we realized that if you want to say yes, but you're incredibly posh slash
old money. Yeah. Is. And then Olivia, Olivia Coleman pointed out when she was doing the crying,
she just used to say ears instead of yes. And that sounds authentically like ears.
I sometimes amuse myself by talking like that when I'm on my own. It's probably a sign of madness,
but I do. And I realized there's something we, at this time of year that there's a bit of our
garden that we just let go wild because, you know, it's good for the bees and everything.
And I was looking at it the other day and I was like, look at this. And I realized there's a great
word you can say in an incredibly posh way. Wild flowers.
Yeah. Because the secret of being incredibly posh like that is that you try to achieve it by
not moving your lips at all. That's right. You don't, I know. I know. That's why you can say
I know without moving your lips. Try it now. Ready? I know.
But in this context, wild flowers is a real treat for not moving your mouth.
Wild flowers.
Hey, look at this. How's it going? Let's go wild flowers.
I know. Wild flowers.
I know. I feel like... I know.
Princess Anne. Does she move her mouth much or not at all? I feel she does sort of...
Wild flowers. What do you do? Are you growing wild flowers?
It's like your mouth is on cruise control. It's open to a certain level and then it just stays
there but you can carry on talking. There's no...
It's basically ventriloquism, isn't it?
Yes, it is. It is.
If you live in an enormous house that you inherited from nine generations of your family,
you are in fact also a talented ventriloquist just by birth.
It is. It is. Wild flowers. It is.
It is. I've had on my podcast table one of the Avengers,
Sunbeam Owners Club newsletters, which is one of my favorite reads.
And I'll talk a bit more about the track work I did last week, which was amazing.
But there's an old advert from a Sunbeam Lotus.
I'll put it up to the camera for anyone who's watching this in video form.
And it's got an aerial shot of a Sunbeam Lotus with people looking around it.
It's parked on the street and it has a huge title which says, Wasps Rounder Jam Jar.
I remember that ad. Do you?
Yeah, because I think actually they gave it away. Was it part of a brochure or just a pamphlet that
used to be... I'm sure that I had maybe even still have that exact thing that maybe my dad
got for me from a project of a dealer. From a dealer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it says... I mean, I could read it in 60s person voice, even though it's actually 70s,
really, isn't it? Or yeah, right in the 70s. Yeah.
They've heard it's got a 2.2 Lotus engine. They can see the speedo clocks 140.
They're told it reaches 60 from a standing start in distinctly unsluggish 6.8 seconds.
They can... This stinkly unsluggish.
Yes, the next slide is they can finger the alloy wheels and the moonstone blue paintwork.
But only you know what it's really like to drive. At which point all they'll smell is the exhaust pipe,
if they're lucky. Is there one lying on the floor in this scenario?
I think you just mowed them down. Fingering the wheels and then smelling the exhaust pipe.
That's like just get up. You're going to get filthy down there. Imagine if they're actually
like putting their fingers in and out of the spokes of the wheels as you pull away.
That would be bad, wouldn't it? The new Talbot Sunbeam Lotus. So this is when it was still badged
also as a Talbot just to make everything a little bit more complicated.
And I love this advert. I flip and love it. I think it's great. And it made me realize that
it's still one of my favorite cars. As in like on the list of I must own one of those before I die
because I think it's... I know they're an ace driver's car. But yeah, I actually drove the
Avenger last week. We took it to a track event, did some actual track work and by Joe Richard
we had fun. It was amazing. It was so much better than I thought it was going to be.
I was going to say how was it on the track? Did it solve its own?
Yeah, it ran strong. I had a big shout out to my friend Sean Ellis at Garage Auto Max in Wales.
So I did the Landzone trial with, if you remember those videos. And Sean, yeah,
Sean's like a... He's a Dapphan behind the wheel, but he's an X-Rally mechanic as well.
And he looked over the car and transported it there. And we tag-teamed driving it. And it was
for a Mission Motorsport charity test day. So it wasn't a race. I was nervous as hell.
I was nervous as hell because it's so much... We're really privileged, right? We... I've driven so
many cars on track for work that I don't own. I'm not paying the fuel. I'm not paying the tires.
I'm not paying the insurance. And you can be a little bit more gung-ho when it's not your car.
Rightly or wrongly. When it's your car, like you've spent real money on it and
all your effort to get it there. And it's a bit of an unknown because I bought this thing eight
months ago and I hadn't driven it more than around a trading estate to make sure it shifted from
first to second. And that is it. And then we go to Goodwood, a track that obviously we do a lot
of work at Goodwood, don't we, Rich? So we've watched numerous races there. And it's such a
fast and forgiving track. And I've never learned the track really. So I was like bloody hell.
This is either going to be amazing or just horrible. And I really prayed that the car didn't
shat itself on like turn, turn two. But no, it's amazing. The car felt so much stronger
and quicker than I thought. And I know I'm running it on modern Nankang tires. So if I was to race it,
which is the dream to race it at like the members meeting, I'd have to put it on the
mandatory tire, which is supposed to be not as good. But yeah, but no, it was great.
Loads of induction noise. Really flat handling. Honestly, the handlings was so good. That was
the thing that really took me by surprise. It handled so flat and predictably. No, I'm down
with it. So I'm even more in love with the Avenger than before. And I brought it home
in one piece as found. Oh, well, that's always a bonus when it comes to track work,
isn't it? It's no damage.
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Oh, and one other thing I thought I actually found which I thought you'd be down with and the
listeners would be down with. I'm still unpacking just hoarded cack from when I moved house
months and ago. I found the original postcards from the
Motor Show stand of when TVR released the speed 12. Oh, I've got 1234 different
TVR speed 12 postcards. I see how because I and I took photographs of it on the stand
when I was there and I've kept these. I just didn't don't remember keeping them.
I don't think they'll answer the phone. No. But you know, it's got the text back on the back and
you forget that so it said wait 1000 kilos dead on 1000 performance in keeping with all other
road cards with 800 horsepower per tonne income by in brackets by comparison, the McLaren F1 has 550.
Does it say what a flex? I know 800 horsepower at 7250 rpm maximum torque 650 pounds feet at
5750 rpm, 7,730 ccs. Wow. What a what a thing. What a thing. I wrote a feature for Eva about it
and it was mind boggling. But my favorite detail is that they built one and then they had the racing
car. Didn't they repaint it or? Yeah, they repainted it and re-registered it and told the
authorities governing the racing that they'd sold the original car to an elusive collector
in the Far East. And so, no, they couldn't see the first car. It had already gone. But the truth
was it was just the second car that they'd re-sprained and re-registered. It's so good.
Genius subterfuge. I love them. Speaking of which, we haven't talked about our live shows at the
London Concourse and our lovely day at the London Concourse. No, we didn't, did we? I know. Because
the reason I remembered this suddenly is because my, I think probably car of the show
was that Lancia Delta S4 Strudale, which is obviously a Group B legend. But to see one
at all, never mind in road trim, is just remarkable. And I was talking to the chap who
owned it, lovely guy. He's also got an RS200. And I said, oh, have you got any other Group B cars?
And he went, no, those two are pretty much a full-time job. But he said, as far as he can
work out, and he's looked into this quite extensively, you know, all those Group B cars,
there were supposed to be 200 road-going versions. And it's generally accepted that
certainly Austin Rover with the 6R4 and Ford with the RS200 built near as damn it, 200.
And I think within then, you know, sort of probably 20 of those became the
work-spec rally cars, whatever, or were sold to punters to go privateer rallying in.
I know, privateer rallying. But the Lancia, it's always, you know, they have a bit of
previously, sort of famously with the O37, they supposedly didn't make the full 200 they were
supposed to. And this guy said, as far as I can work out, it is 70-something that they built.
Is that all?
And yeah, and he said, I still am not absolutely certain whether that includes
the competition cars or if they were on top. But there's every chance.
So that is seriously rare?
Yeah, serious, proper. I mean, that's just, and it was just fabulous thing to see. And
he had some amazing stories about it. Like when he bought it, it's very low mileage,
you've been in a collection. So obviously, he wants to change the cam belt because he doesn't
want that to go snap because he wants to actually drive this car. Struggling to get a cam belt for
it. He emailed the company, they used to be Pirelli cam belts they were bought by somebody else out
in Italy, who made the original cam belt. As luck would have it, his email would have normally
gone to the person who just fends off unlisted emails and would have probably told them to
know they can't help. That person was on holiday. The email was seen by this old guy who works in
the prototyping department who went, Oh, I worked on that in the 80s. I think we've still got the
moulds somewhere out the back and went and found the moulds and was able to say, Yeah,
we will run you off. You know, they do cam belts sort of in big like meter width or whatever,
half meter. So they had to run him off a full width thing that they then sliced. So he has now
got a lot of cam belts. But the fact is, if his email hadn't been just by chance seen by somebody
who normally wasn't responsible for answering emails out of the blue, he may still be desperately
searching for a cam belt. But instead, he's had he's had a made on the original moulds, which is
pretty cool. That's really good. I love that. Yeah. Yeah, that car just made by dacing that car. And
he started up for us. It's a four cylinder, but it sounds, you know, not exotic by any means.
But there's a little bit of supercharger wine. But he said, when you get it going,
and it switches or it, you know, the supercharger, the supercharger and turbocharged as well,
was very rare at the time. Yeah, supercharger is running all the time, obviously. But then when
the turbo really kicks in as well, and it's just like these are the whole voice of the engine changes
again. And it's just fabulous. He said it's really, really, really nice. I didn't hear it at the event,
but they are they are a strange, strange power plant, aren't they? They do sound like nothing
else. It's interesting. He says, you know, so the trouble is that the bits that matter to make
it a better rally car are, you know, really bespoke and special. And then everything else,
it just parts bin stuff cobbled around it kind of same as I bet it's is it is it terribly made?
I bet it's appallingly made. Superficially, it was okay. Actually, I was surprised. It wasn't a
total lash up. I think the RS 200 is worse. And having driven an RS 200, you know, that is a real
kind of do the bare minimum, you know, the bodywork on RS 200 is terrible. Is it? Is it lashed? Yeah,
so I was talking to a guy called Wayne Burgess, who was very senior designer at Jaguar for years.
And he is now at Borough Motorworks. So he was there representing that
fabulous Mark Wylescott that they've done. Dosh, what a car. Yeah, that was I was perving
around that for a while. Yes. And you can tell that a very talented and experienced car designer
has led that because the detail is superb in the way that they've done. He was saying how things
like the little the knurling kind of on the door lock pin is the same as on the vents and on various
other controls, but scaled to that control. But it's the same pattern that they've been able to
do because they can they can control the process because they're making all this stuff in house.
And so it's got all these lovely little details on it. But their next thing is an RS 200. And Wayne
was saying they've scanned a few RS 200s and the variation in them is just comical by modern standards.
Because they were you know, the shell was just there to cover the mechanical parts, which were
the bit that was important to try and win rallies. Yeah. And then they just got reliant to sort of
sling a badly made fiberglass over the top. So it's, yeah, apparently, they're just all over
the shop. And their new one, because it's a brand new car will be dimensionally really tight. But
that also means it'll look better because the panel gaps will be consistent where on the
original, they're just dog share. And the Delta actually was the I've took a photo, a detailed
photo of the the front wing, whereas all panels all joined together because the clamshell and
that was gappy as anything. But yeah, otherwise it didn't look totally sort of homemade. It was
okay. So that was cool. Talking of like looking really, really cool, but slightly homemade,
I forgot to say that the I reckon the coolest car apart from the Avenger that was at this
Mission Motorsport Goodwood charity test day was a guy that turned up to track his alpha
SZ. Oh, and I mean, you don't see alpha SZ very often, do you? But no, this guy was doing track
work in it. I have never seen one on a track in my life. No, such a car. It looked magnificent.
I was going to say that the I said that the Delta S4 was my highlight of the concourse. That's not
true. Because my highlight of the concourse was when someone got us into the fancy hospitality
tent thing to have some lunch. And you were chatting to that guy who owns Gunther Works,
weren't you? He was sitting at our table. Yes, his table. Sweet, sweet guy. Yeah. Yeah,
lovely. Him and his wife. And I was talking to our mate Walter who was sitting next to me when I
looked up and entering the tent was a vision in purple thin leather. Plato had arrived and he
was wearing the jacket. And I started tugging at your arm like a child going Johnny jacket,
jacket, jacket. You were and then Plato came over and he was like,
I knew you two would be here. So I had to wear it. We were beside ourselves and then we forgot to
get a selfie with him in the jacket. And by the time we realized he'd gone again. We're a pair of
penises. We really are. I have to say though, as he was walking around with a big Cheshire
cat grin on his face with the jacket on, it made me realize that his jacket game is getting closer
and closer to Tiff's jacket jacket game. Is it is it osmosis over all the years of them working
together on fifth gear? Yeah. And both being quite competitive with one another and very
pally that is the is the mantle of the carpaccio of leather being handed down to another generation,
do we think? And if Tiff does finally retire the translucent leather jacket,
what will what will replace it? Because Tiff's not a Gile guy. Oh, God, Tiff would never go
for a motorsport Gile, would he? No, I just can't see that. And Tiff's not a Oh, I've just put a
chunky Aaron jumper on now that it's getting chilly. He's not that guy either. So he's a shirt
and a practically translucent jacket. Plato's purple of the jacket, though, is actually not
carpaccio spec, I would say it is. It is maneuverable, lightweight, but not full superleggera.
Okay, Tiff's is still like a bin liner in the wind, but made by who does he get
stuff from? Hugo Boss, isn't it? It's a boss jacket. Yeah, it was great to see. It was great
to see him there. It was. It was really good. We tried to persuade him to come to our show and
cause mischief, but then he had to go. So sadly not. But thank you to everyone who did come to
our shows, though, because we had really good fun. Two nights on the bounce as well, which is
unusual for us, but it was, uh, it was a lot of fun. Really nice time. Yeah. We
talked about what Knight Rider was called in Spain and the the tale of the locusts and piss,
which is not the name of the local solicitor. And, um, yeah, that you've been legally advised
not to commit that tape. So no, I'm not going to. So we're going to. Um, but I forgot to also say
few weeks back now, well, be a month or so ago, when I went to the release of the Forza new Forza
Horizon game at the, uh, British car museum. Yes. And I took my kids. Um, that was a very
Japanese centric day that we went to. Uh, and it had the, the actor from, um, Fast and Furious
Tokyo Drift, um, Kang Seung, who we had a really lovely chat with. What a fantastic man. Um,
gave, gave us about half an hour, 40 minutes of his time and ended up signing an amazing, uh,
Corolla drift poster. He's got a, a film coming out that he's pretty much bankrolled himself
called the drifter, which I'm really looking forward to. But, um, we went in my Tokyo taxi
because I thought we've got to, and we were fortunate enough to be guided in and park it
quite in a quite a prominent place. And as we parked it in, it got quite a lot of attention
and I dropped it on its airbag suspension. And, uh, as I got out the car with the, with, with
Wesson and, uh, Kitty May, I stepped out the car and my phone fell out my pocket and I sort of
lightly kicked it across the floor, you know, in your middle and Wesson just looked at me,
turned to his sister and went, aura loss.
And it's such a, such a middle-aged dad thing. I sort of went aura loss and afterwards I,
it got me thinking about it and he went, he said, he said, you, you had it all. You looked so cool
in the car, dropping the suspension, getting out and you're about to walk away and lock it
and be like king of the hill. And all the aura was destroyed when your phone just slipped
out of your Chino pocket. And I was like, yeah, oh well, you can't have it all. I'm not that cool
anyway. But to me, aura loss sounds like, um, a slightly Faye singing a songwriter, uh, a bit
is the new single from aura loss. Oh, is she, is she, yeah, is she modern country or bluegrass,
do you think? No, I think she's, she's focure. She's focure than that. She's lilting and, and her,
her new single is called autumn brown or something like that. And it's just,
yeah, is it right? Okay.
Oh God.
We should rise with that. We were talking about the, um, realizing the words that your parents
used in lieu of swear words sometimes. Yeah. And I realized that my mum used to say sugar quite a
lot. Yes. And it's only in adulthood. I was like, Oh, instead of saying shit, right. But yeah, like
not as, as in she would go, Oh no, I've trodden in some dog sugar. She would just say if she dropped
a plate and it broke, she'd go, Oh, sugar. And it was like that. But I said, yeah.
And if you're, if your mum just used sugar as a euphemism for shit in any context, it would be
a little bit, a little bit weird. Yeah. Yeah. All doing the converse. I'm trying to think of,
um, sugar, honey, honey, honey, honey.
Shit, shit. Yeah. A more troubling one is deaf leopards pour some shit on me, which I don't think
that's great. Oh guys, that's great. What about, um, rolling stones? What was the rolling
stones one? Yes. Okay, here's a classic for you now. It's brown shit by the rolling stone. Please
no. Come on. It's, it's, it's factually correct though, isn't it? Well, rolling stones with brown
shit. It is actually brown. Yes. So therefore they're not lying. It's, it's better than
watermelon shit high by Harry Styles. That's why Harry, if Harry was writing a text in a hurry,
if someone was to say, uh, just a reply to, Oh, I haven't seen you for a few weeks. What,
what you've been up to today. And it was just watermelon shit high. That was just a quick
watermelon, which had some slightly polluted foreign water in it, which instantly gave him
the two bob bits, you know? So it was a suddenly arse painting.
Okay. Sorry, sorry, people. So was your welcome to Britain's most high brow podcast.
Um, we should probably wrap this up. People do tune in for car content. You know that, don't
you? Well, I know and I will fool them, but we do try. Um, anyway, look, uh, we should start
moving towards the exits before we do, uh, three things to share with you. The first, of course,
is that Johnny has a solo YouTube channel called the late break show. Um, he, can you remember
what's on it? Well, the, the, the next one. Yeah. Uh, well, if we can turn the edit around,
which I hope we can. Yeah. It's something we shot only last week just before my good
buddy extravaganza. And it is something that's been in the pipeline for a long time. It is
an interview with and a look around some of his cars with the greatest DJ that's ever lived,
Mr. Carl Cox. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And, uh, that was a fun, fun day. What an absolute gentleman
and a massive, massive, um, car and motorcycle vehicle fanatic really is a die hard vehicle
fanatic. So he ain't got to go to his house and everything. Wow. It was looking forward to that
one. Yeah. Lots of fun and not short of chat is Carl. It's delightful to know he's also as
much of an SSG as I always thought he probably would be. He is an SSG. Can I, can I just say,
he actually, he saw me open the boot of the car and I'd had some of the merchant there from our
live show and he saw that he saw this cap, the CMTMB, the cheers mate, thanks mate, buy cap.
And he said, Oh, can I, can I have one of those? Really? Yeah. And he's got, oh,
because you sent me a picture of him wearing one and I was a bit like, okay, well that's,
quite nice, but he asked for it. So he's got it. Oh man. If we find a picture of him DJing
some huge place and he's wearing one of our caps, that would just make my year. I think that would
make my decade. Yeah, that would. It would, wouldn't it? I feel like we've got to go and see, he's
doing, he's going to be doing some more gigs with the Prodigy on vinyl later this year.
Is he? Yes. I would highly recommend that to anyone who's thinking of putting the trigger
on a gig. Do you know what I mean? I might go to a gig this year. Yeah.
Second thing I was going to say is our next live show is not really one of our live shows,
it's, it's, we are going to be on stage at the Festival of the Unexceptional Saturday the 25th
of July. It's a fabulous show. If you've not been, then you should go because it's great.
We'll be there doing various bits and pieces on stage, including a quiz and some other shenanigans.
It's Grimmsthorpe Castle. We'll be bringing at least one car, won't we?
At least one car, yes. Yeah. Ideally two cars. The quest will be there. Fear not,
everybody. The Eagle Quest will be there. So yeah, I search Festival of the Unexceptional.
It's on the Haggerty website. They organise it and you can get tickets from them, but we will
be there. I hope to see you there. It is, it's always a grand day out. And the third thing
I was going to say is that the first official Chinese restaurant in the UK opened in 1909
and it was called The Chinese Restaurant. Did it have an abandoned lute and body van in the
once they started to open Chinese restaurants on the A1. That was when that came into its own.
But yeah, there were loads of, apparently there were Chinese, you could get Chinese food around
major ports, Liverpool, London and places like that, where ships would come in
from China and they had restaurants set up there, but they were sort of, they weren't
really restaurants. They were kind of like, you know, food outlets, cafes, stalls.
Sailors cafes.
Yeah, exactly. But the first kind of sit-down formal Chinese restaurant wasn't until the
start of the 20th century, but it was called The Chinese Restaurant. Not very imaginative.
Well, they had to make sure that it was clear. The product and the service was clear.
I suppose so, yeah. Yeah, so imagine, I suppose it was like, well, so as I said,
Wardian Britain, isn't it? Just go, what? What's that? Well, it's a Chinese restaurant.
It sells food from China. Oh, I see. Self-explanatory. Thanks. Exactly. If you called it welcome walk-in,
they'd go, oh, what's that then? Well, it's a Chinese restaurant, basically. Anyway,
well, that's enough from us. We'll be back on Friday with a Q&A show and a normal show on Monday.
Until then, goodbye. Bye, everybody. Love you on that side of things.
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About this episode
Conversation swings from song-lyric wordplay into family car plans, then into classic and niche automotive rabbit holes. A dad surprises his daughter with a 2002 Volkswagen Beetle, complete with “little jobs” like a new head unit, grade-based stereo upgrades (including DAB), and a tire “reward menu.” Later, the hosts get playful with a Japanese taxi story—dropping a phone during airbag suspension—leading to the punchline “aura loss.”
Jonny suffers an embarrassing moment with one of his cars. Also in this episode, party planning with Lionel Richie, northern words, a first car for Jonny’s daughter and a bicycle for Richard, Avenger at Goodwood, the legend of the TVR Speed 12, parental substitutes for swear words and what this means for popular songs, hanging out with Carl Cox, and another fine car from the Car & Classic classifieds.
