A C1 Corvette is the very first generation of the Chevrolet Corvette. The hosts are talking about what the inside of that older Corvette would feel like—like a classic, driver-focused cabin.
A bench seat is one long seat instead of separate individual seats. The hosts are talking about whether older cars had that kind of seating, which would change how you’d ride with a baby.
In cars, “cockpit” means the driver-and-passenger area where you sit and reach the controls. They’re saying the early Corvette cabin feels especially special and focused on the driver.
This is a Toyota Celica GT-Four from the mid-1990s. It’s a turbocharged, rally-inspired version with all-wheel drive, so it’s a favorite among people who like cars with motorsport roots.
JDM means parts made for the Japanese market. So “JDM rear lights” are tail lights that match the version of the car sold in Japan, which can look and fit a bit differently than other versions.
Projector headlights aim the light in a more controlled way. Halogen headlights use a different, simpler bulb, and the light output/beam pattern can be less focused.
TRD is Toyota’s in-house performance parts brand. So “TRD” here means the car got Toyota-branded performance-style add-ons rather than generic aftermarket stuff.
Spats are small add-on panels that help the airflow around the car. They’re usually there to improve the look and slightly clean up how air moves around the wheels or bumper.
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OZ
OZ makes aftermarket wheels. The host is saying the car originally had OZ wheels that matched the rally/performance style.
Right-hand drive means the steering wheel is on the right side of the car. It’s common in left-driving countries, so it stands out in places like California.
British Leyland was a big British car company that made lots of cars in the past. Here it’s mentioned to show the person is really into classic British cars.
The Renault 5 Turbo 2 is a special, sporty version of the Renault 5 that uses a turbocharged engine. In this episode, it’s mentioned as a dream car to have in the “other” steering-wheel format.
The Jaguar XE is a luxury sedan, meaning it’s a comfortable daily-style car with nicer features. The Project 8 is a special, more performance-oriented version of the XE. The podcast is bringing it up as a newer Jaguar that’s meant to be more performance-focused without going to the most expensive route.
Left-hand drive just means the steering wheel is on the left side of the car. The hosts are saying the Project 8 ended up being made that way for practical reasons.
A bulkhead is a strong internal wall inside the car. In this case, they’re saying it may have needed changes so the V8 could fit, and that can impact the steering layout too.
The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is a special high-performance 911 made for the track. The hosts are debating whether the car looks better with the model stickers or without them.
The BMW 3 Series is a luxury car that’s meant to feel sporty to drive while still being practical. It has had special performance versions over the years. The podcast is mentioning it because it’s a well-known model among car enthusiasts.
The BMW E30 M3 is a classic BMW performance car from the 1980s. The discussion is about which cars you’d want to be able to drive on the opposite side of the road (right-hand-drive).
The BMW Z1 is a quirky BMW roadster with a distinctive design. Here it’s mentioned as one of the cars the host would love to have in the right-hand-drive setup.
The Fiat Barchetta is a fun little Italian convertible. The host says they drove a right-hand-drive conversion and it didn’t feel right compared with how the left-hand-drive version is supposed to drive.
A steering setup is the combined arrangement of components that translate steering-wheel input into wheel movement, including linkages, geometry, and how the system is packaged in the chassis. In conversions, the steering setup may need redesign to maintain correct feel and response.
The Porsche 959 is a famous old-school supercar from Porsche. The hosts are talking about whether you could get it as a right-hand-drive car to drive on their side of the road.
The Bugatti Veyron is a very rare, very expensive supercar designed for extreme speed. It’s the kind of car people talk about because it’s not just fast—it’s built to be on a different level than normal cars. The discussion here is about how exciting it would be to drive one.
The Renault Twingo is a small city car. They’re talking about whether it’s sold in right-hand-drive form, which is important in countries where you drive on the left.
Car
Citroen SM
The Citroën SM is a distinctive grand tourer from the 1970s, known for its unusual engineering and styling. Here it comes up in the context of right-hand-drive vs left-hand-drive availability, including whether specific cars are factory-built for their market or converted later.
Full lock means turning the steering wheel all the way to one side. They’re saying that doing that while the car isn’t moving can be rough on parts, and they joke about people who do it for show.
Ball joints are parts in the suspension that help the wheels move and steer. The idea here is that turning the steering hard while the car is stopped can put extra strain on those joints.
A drift car is a car used for drifting, where the driver makes the rear slide while still steering. They’re using it as a joke about people who turn the wheel very aggressively.
Power steering helps you turn the wheel with less effort. The speaker is saying that when the car is moving around, it can stress the steering system more than you’d expect.
This is a BMW wagon. The host is talking about how driving onto a steep driveway at an angle can make the car’s body twist a bit, and you can sometimes hear it creak inside.
Angle of attack here means the angle at which the car approaches the driveway/obstacle relative to the ground. A steeper approach angle can create uneven contact forces, which increases twisting loads and can lead to creaks or wheel “cocking.”
A torsional load is a twisting force. If one side of the car hits differently than the other, the car can twist slightly, and you may hear creaking from the body.
The BMW 2 Series is a smaller luxury car designed to feel sporty. The M240i is a higher-performance version of that model. The podcast is referencing it because the speaker is comparing how the car’s size and layout feel in day-to-day driving.
Car
BMW F22 M240i
This is a BMW 2 Series coupe. The speaker is comparing it to a wagon to suggest the coupe’s shape may twist less in the same driveway situation.
The speaker says their Tesla does similar noises/behavior on a sloped driveway. They think the car’s weight makes the body flex more, so you notice it as creaks or wheel movement.
“Cock a wheel” describes a situation where one wheel lifts or angles differently than the others due to body twist and suspension articulation. The speaker contrasts this with cars that mainly show creaking, suggesting different chassis/suspension behaviors under the same slope.
Torsion rigidity is how resistant a vehicle’s chassis/body is to twisting. The speaker argues that this is tested on rigs and that modern development includes measuring how much the body flexes under load.
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I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff
spin-off in which we answer your questions. Welcome once again to the question-answering
version of our show, half an hour on a Friday. You probably know that by now, but anyway.
Shall I dive straight in? Well, you're such an early diver. I feel like I can't compete anymore.
You've established your masculinity and your dominance. There's no point in wasting time.
Quite a quick one here from a listener called Craig House, who is down this neck of the woods
in Somerset. And I know this because he's put it in his email. He says, hello, you pair of wankers.
I have a question regarding the 1996 Paula Cole song, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone.
Oh. In the first line of the song, she mentions her and her partner owning a 56 Chevy.
Yes. I've always assumed she was referring to the Tri-Chevy era car rather than a truck,
or she would have just said something along the lines of a 3,100 Chevy. Anyhow, later on in the
song, she states, we finally sold the Chevy when we had another baby. My question is, how big was
the baby? And what could they possibly sell it for that was any bigger? It's bugged me for 30 years.
Keep up the good work, CMTMB. Craig, I listened to this song when Craig's message came in the
other day. I listened to this song because it was one of the songs where he'd go, oh, I remember
quite liking that song when it was on the radio a lot. Yes. And I probably haven't heard it for
30 years. So I put it on. I think she actually says that when she first met her boyfriend,
husband, whatever it's supposed to be, he had a 56 Chevy. Right. And then, yeah, later on, they
have to sell the Chevy because they've had another baby. I think I've found the solution here. Do you?
What's your solution? Well, I just think it's a pickup truck and it's got a
bench seat, right? So you could probably get a one baby in the front, but two is just silly.
You'd need to have a car with a back seat, which the Chevy is a single cab pickup. I'm not quite
following what Craig thinks that if it was a pickup, she'd have sort of specified the weight
of it or what it can haul. I mean, maybe she would, maybe not. I don't know
how keen Paula Cole is on specific pickup truck badging. Here's what I think. I think
when she got with the guy, I think he was a Corvette guy. Oh, and I think it's a C1 Corvette.
Is that C1? It's got to be a C1 56. Yeah. Yeah. So then you could have a bench seat still in those.
I don't know if you could have a bench seat, but all I know is if it was the bad old days,
you could just carry a swaddled baby on your lap if you're riding it as a passenger and no one
would frown at you because it was the 80s or the 70s or whatever it was. Well, this is the thing.
Is it like, is the song set in the past or has this person got a 56 Chevy in the 80s or 90s?
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know because I always assumed like Craig that she was referring to a 56
Chevrolet in tri Chevy sedan, but obviously not because that's a very sensible family car for
two, possibly three babies. So yeah, I'm going to go with Corvette. I'm going to say Corvette
irresponsibly carrying the baby in your arms or with a papoose type thing. Yeah. And the baby
loved the interior because that cockpit of that, those early Corvettes is just something else.
I've got real hankering. We keep talking about Corvettes. We talked about in the main podcast
of bloody C4s. I keep thinking about C4s. Damn it. Yeah. So I mean, I suppose Craig countered with
why didn't she say Corvette, but if you want to be picky in the actual song, she rhymes Chevy with
ready. It's oh, you get me ready in your 56 Chevy. Yes. Now there is a word that rhymes with Corvette
that may communicate a certain other similar meaning, but it's a bit rude. So I'm not going to say it.
Oh, I can't think about what that is, but you're not going to tell me that. So no, no, no, no.
Yeah. Then she says we finally sell the Chevy when we had another baby. Now she's Chevy and
baby don't rhyme, do they? But that's fine. Chevy and baby makes total sense. Okay.
And you took that job in Tennessee. Presumably it was a good job worth doing. I don't know.
Well, it says you made friends at the farm. So it's a farm job? Yeah, because he's a cowboy.
Or is he a cowboy? She wants a cowboy. I think this song's a bit sad. It is quite sad. Yeah.
Anyway, that's not really an answer, is it? But Craig, I think pickup truck Johnny thinks Corvette.
Either way, Paula Cole's story checks out. I don't think it was a tri Chevy or she had a massive
baby. We just don't know. I've got a question now. This is from Tom Garwood. Hi, you pair of
Chodie shifters. We haven't said that for a while, have we? No. Get old Chodie shifters. I ought to
say that a bit more because I still enjoy saying that. Nice to have that back. I used to have a
1996 ST205 Salica GT4. But I sold it around 10 years ago shortly after moving in with my then
girlfriend now wife as the running costs were just getting a bit high as a daily. I let it go for a
ridiculously cheap amount and I've regretted it every day since I adored that car. I'm emailing
you because I recently looked up my old number plate and I was in shock to find two photos of
my old car in what seems to be a Toyota graveyard in Poland. This is particularly weird as I sold
the car in Cheltenham in brackets. I've attached one picture of when I own the car and two which I
came across the other day in the Polish graveyard. I can see they replaced the boot and fitted the
World Rally style spoiler, replaced the JDM rear lights, replaced the projector headlights for
halogens, fitted TRD not turd style spats to the rear bumper, did a lip to the front bumper,
replaced the lovely rally OZ. Obviously he hasn't been studying these photos with some
replaced the lovely OZ with horrific wheels. I can only assume they removed the confetti
ricaros too. Anyway, I'm not sure how these old pictures, how old these pictures are, but I do
hope the car's still alive somewhere in Poland. It probably isn't, but the fact they've replaced so
many parts rather than stripping it down does give me some hope. I've tried contacting the site
where I found the pictures but my now wife then girlfriend has decided to go and get herself
pregnant with help from me. So it's probably best that I don't try and buy it back right now.
But there is a question here and the question is have you ever been shocked to see a car you
previously owned in a really weird place? Bonus points if it's in a completely different country.
Cheers mate, thanks mate, bye Tom. Yes is the short answer. I've got two and I'll make them quick.
One, I sold a yellow, I think it was 1977 Volkswagen Derby chrome bumper model which I bought
out of a scrapyard and I've said this story years ago. I bought it out of a scrapyard
because I was in that scrapyard that day looking for parts for another car. It came in on a low
loader and it was deceased spec and apparently the deceased man's wife said I don't want this car,
I hate it and I don't want anyone else to own it. Take it to the scrapyard. But it was absolutely
immaculate right? The scrap man, I said to the scrap man what are you doing with that car because
it looks amazing and I looked around it and he went yeah yeah he told me that story and I went
you got to sell it. I said I'll buy it and he looked at me and he said well I've got the V5
in my hand, I haven't filled it out as scrap yet and I said I'll buy it off you now and he said
take it now for 250 quid and I did. Fast forward half a year I sold that car to a guy who was in
in the US Air Force over here in Norfolk when I say over here I mean in the UK I don't live in
Norfolk and he got posted back to California about a year later and he took that car with him
so he has a yellow Volkswagen right-hand drive derby in Cali and his name is Eric. I haven't
spoken to Eric in years but I hope you're all right Eric. So there's that and I sold my Mark
Wankernada to an American guy who drove it to Greece which I knew he was doing yeah sweet
sweet guy lovely guy but unfortunately what I didn't know and he sent me some photos about two
years later is that he barrel rolled it in Greece and so and he still has the car he's still apparently
trying to put it back on the road but that was 2001 2002 it was a long time ago
so those are my stories you crikey no I don't I mean never like a weird place I've
seen cars that I have sold being driven by their new owners and had that weird moment where you go
oh my god my car it's being stolen no wait I sorry I don't own that car anymore that's just
it's it's fine but yeah sort of it's their car and they'll do what they want with it your story
about the derby though suddenly made me think about one of the most incongruous things I've seen
which is that our friend Richard Bremner excellent car journalist and of course British Leyland
aficionado had a very early mini metro which he subsequently sold to another friend of ours
Jamie Kittman the American car writer based in New York and Jamie took the metro
to New York yeah and posted pictures of it on the streets of New York City with like you know
parked in a row of massive SUVs or sort of you know going down one of those great kind of canyon
streets between skyscrapers and stuff like that but it just looks so comically tiny in an American
context New York City um city but but Jamie Jamie has all sorts because he uh
Jamie is not only a journalist but also has uh many other strings to his bone one of them is he
has a company that supplies cars to film and tv so every so often he his or his company is required
to try and get hold of something that was never sold in the US he he put a post somewhere on
on social media recently about how he had to go um a load of identical transit vans
really as in sort of you know right hand drive UK spec transits for some movie that was doing a scene
where these a transit was crashed but they needed backups and it was it had to be very specifically
sort of older shaped transit and um he said it was a you know it's a nightmare you're trying to source
vans from another country and also they're just not looked after they are working vehicles and
they're all messed up and and when they come to the end of their lives they just get scrapped
there's no love for them particularly and it's like it's a real challenge but that's one of the
things that his company does it's fascinating work um yeah and I guess that's why he bought the
metro it's just boy might just because why not he does also have a love of slightly unusual cars um
so yeah that I don't have any Jamie Kippman was you know doing quirky car stuff many years ago
wasn't he yes oh god yeah yeah no james james long been uh uh kind of unusual car guy also he manages
bands he manages they might be giants he's big he's big oh yeah he did that's right yeah he still
does manage something and I I remember I vaguely remember okay go was it okay go about yeah yeah
he managed yeah he's uh he is an interesting guy is Jamie and and an ssg so you got you got a question
I have yeah this is one that's actually from last year but the reason I bring it up is because
uh it's from a listener called Daniel who in fact re-sent the question um because he's he
sort of realized that things slipped with the cracks and this is actually a very good question
it is um if you could have any left-hand drive vehicle as a right-hand drive version what would
you have as in proper factory job not some bodge yeah one of my picks would be a Renault 5 turbo
two oh that's a good pick so I guess what he's really saying is you know if any car that was
never made in that in right hand drive but you could magically make that possible the factory
you've made some right and drive ones and um yeah that would be good one of the first ones I thought of
is actually quite a recent one is the um Jaguar XE project eight which I think for budget reasons
they had to sort of pick one um and they decided to just make them all left hand drive I think
are you sure there's someone we know who worked on that car we'll probably correct this but I think
because they had to make some modifications to the bulkhead to get the v8 in they probably
couldn't stump up to do left and right hand drive or there may be some other reason perhaps
some of the part of the engine was in the way of the steering column I just don't know for sure but
project eights were only left hand drive and I've forgotten about that I completely forgot
they were all left yeah so you know when there's a Harry Metcalfe tooling around in his but left
hand drive and you get and they are I've driven one briefly but it was absolutely sensational to drive
yeah I've never driven one I've heard great things about it and the problem with the project eight
for me is I just don't like the way it looks I don't I don't like any of the mods they did
I think it looks pretty much systematically worse than a standard XE to me
yeah in the same with it not the current one but previous Civic Type Rs look definitely worse
in every way than a standard Civic of the the right generation to me it's just like
can you just give me all of the Type R stuff mechanically and just put it in a normal body
and then I take it I'd love a project eight that wasn't a project eight my unpopular opinion
okay I I mean I know what you mean and I just think the the decals look shit the wing looks
shit don't like the wheels front bumper I just look I just just have an XFRS
I mean it looks so much better in every single way to me but that's I mean yes I know what you
mean there's that's the it's so appealing to have a sort of stealthy car I mean I would definitely
have a project eight with the the touring spec lower wing and I wouldn't have the stickers on it
the stickers are awful I don't even you didn't have to have them did you but I guess
they're awful it's a pretty extreme car I suppose it's almost it's it exists in that world of like
it's like a GT3 RS and it actually feels very like a GT3 RS to drive in a weird way it's got that
real kind of tightness to it and so you know it's it's quite intense in a good way and I suppose
I because I always look at GT3 RS and go do you have to have the stickers just it would be cooler
without so yeah yeah I think nowadays it's cooler without yeah but yeah I like that I think it's an
engineering sexy masterpiece but um hey um what was your answer Daniel's question right cars that
were only left hand drive that you'd love oh yeah yeah yeah factory right hand drive one I mean
another one BMW Z1 I've always got a thing about those yeah um well E30 M3 yes Fiat Barquetta
I've always thought they were sweet um and I drove a right hand drive conversion of a Barquetta and
it was terrible I don't know what they'd done but it was just I think they'd had to use a different
steering setup or something it just didn't feel very nice and having driven Barquettas as they're
meant to be in left hand drive they they were always quite nice to drive so yeah yeah that would be
good proper factory Barquetta in right hand drive mainly maybe predictably I'm going to go with the
Delta 8 um Integrale because I know that there were some some some custom right hand drive cottage
industry conversions but I'm not sure how well Jason Plato famously had one and destroyed it
when he caught his parents having sex and went for a long drive to clear his head and ended up
having to call them and disturb them and his dad had to come out and get him because he'd put his
car in a field yes and it was ruined yeah so there we go that's in his book definitely a book
worth reading so many though I'm going to finish with Porsche 959 why not one of my favorite cars
oh my childhood and yeah just just a bit more usable if it was right hand drive yeah damn it
that's a good shout that that's a good shout I feel like there's one that I'm
there I'm really missing and I'm and it's going to irritate me as soon as this podcast goes out
I mean I don't know if I really want one but it would be interesting to
drive a Veyron with you if you were able to sit on the
our side of the road oh yeah car for our side of the road yeah that'd be nice wouldn't it
and come in right and drive so definitely 959 could you not get a right hand driver on
definitely not no I think it just probably wasn't worth no the the maths was it I mean
on a more prosaic level I'm really glad they're doing the new Twingo in right hand drive
but I sort of I wish the old the original one it was was available in right hand drive because
you know I almost bought one last year yeah and I still think you should have because it looked
immaculate and I yeah it's just I was thinking about one of the things that was in my sort of
nah I don't bother Colin was just like ah is this is a is will this be a regular nuisance for any
reason if I'm just tooling around in this and it's sort of like probably not but just every so often
there'd be a ticket barrier or something there would be a bit but if they're small so it's not
such a big deal I I've just thought of a car I'm just wrecking my brains as to whether or not
they did do right hand drive I want to say they didn't but I'm suddenly I feel
a bit scared to say it in case it's wrong Citroen SM no they were just left hand drive
were they left only I want to say they were left now now you've got I feel like they were left
only but I feel like they were left only but the thing about the SM because you were just talking
about cars that you've been tempted to buy that you haven't bought recently yes I've been nearly
buying a Citroen SM for well over a year and I just haven't no they they there is there are
right hand drive ones I'm just looking at this and I'm trying to work out if they are conversions
or if this one is an Australian one that was had by law had to be converted to right and oh yes
yeah it says here factory cars were all left undrive right and drive conversions were done
in the UK and Australia so okay yeah a factory SM delta and a delta integrally and a Citroen
SM please boss thank you yeah cool yeah sounds good yeah all right this is one this is you know
you've got that really strange aversion to turning full lock when the car isn't moving
left or forwards or backwards in case you stress the ball joints and things well I use it turning
the steering turning the steering at all while the car is stationary is a bit of a I mean I have
done it but yeah I'm sure you've done it you weirdo well I've had to sometimes you have to
have a really tight space or something like that but I prefer not to do it yeah you don't like these
guys that do the full palm and then the full palm the other way no gosh you couldn't own a drift car
could you um right but they're always moving when they're doing that are they not well they are
always moving but you do punish all of the steering system quite heavily the power steering
yeah oh yeah yeah no it's fine well that is some of my list of reasons why I don't own a drift car
this is from a chap called Tom hi I'm a mechanical engineer but frankly my brain hurts by the end
of the week so I can't be bothered to give any more thought to this other than writing the below
message hence your thoughts are welcome the scenario my driveway is perpendicular to the road
but the road has a reasonable crown the dropped pavement has a shallow gradient and the driveway
has a reasonably short but steep gradient therefore driving head on up the driver crashes the front
lip of my BMW F31 340i touring into the ground so I go up at an angle the problem is is that the
angle of attack applies a torsional load to the chassis and body which you can hear because some
of the interior creaks a little bit this only seems to be a problem in estate cars as they are
long roofed and a bit more hollow my previous car was an f22 m240i which is short with a rear bulkhead
to resist some twist and my partner has a civic which also seems to behave fine what do you know
about car development and chassis slash body weakening over time is this something that is
cycle tested will the flex eventually weaken the car would a rear strut brace resist the twist
am I being ridiculous long time listener first time caller cheers mate thanks mate by Tom this
is a really good question actually I'm down with this um my Tesla does this because my office is
down a slope at a certain angle of attack and you can either certain cars will cock a wheel
when you go down it slowly and other cars will creak and my Tesla does a sort of bit of both
because it's such a heavy car and I do wonder because it's nearly done 300 000 miles am I just
am I just annoying it is it like asking old people to touch their toes when they wake up and their
alarm goes off or is it okay in warmer weather when this when the body metal is is slightly more
pliable I don't know Richard I I mean this stuff torsion rigidity is tested
absolutely yes it is oh absolutely isn't you know on on on test rigs and I mean obviously
things have got a lot more sophisticated now in terms of the amount that is done in the box if
you like yeah within supercomputers and things so yes but yeah they're still they still stick
shells on rigs and completed cars on rigs and there is still room for you know sort of durability
testing and doing like belgium parvail all that sort of stuff I think yeah um yeah I mean I suppose
unless you're going to keep the car forever I don't think it's doing enough damage no you think
about the forces that are going through a car shell that you're not really aware of but are there
you know every sort of major suspension input over a bump but also all the things a car shell has to
do including crash resistance yeah they're bloody strong you're not going to start peeling the
welds apart by just going into your drive no I mean you can take a standard rigidity
shelled modern car around the Nurburgring probably quite a lot of times before you get any splitting
of body seams or anything like that yes you're going to wear out soft joints bushes yeah ball joints
but uh I really wouldn't worry Tom unless you're crashing up and down your drive at 20 miles an
hour like Nick Notter in some 80s film then I'd say you're probably going to be okay I've got that
image in my head again of is it 48 hours with him in that poor 59 Cadillac where he's just
just ruining that car up and down curbs and all sorts he really does get up utterly trashed
I mean Tom says he's an engineer right so I assume he's sort of methodical and quite
precise chap and he'll have he'll have tried this but could he attack the driveway head on if he in
fact reversed oh is there more clearance I know there's probably more there's more overhang at the
rear but would you scratch your chin because he scratches chin the other way like that rather
than like that well I mean you don't want to bugger the really exhaust tips or something but I
don't I just wonder if sort of just the angles involved and everything that it would go out but
I'm assuming he's tried that and it's a non-starter or there's another reason why not but that would
allow him to do a dead-on attack so there wouldn't it wouldn't be sort of microscopically twisting
the shell but yeah body shells are twisted by their makers to make sure they're as stiff as they're
supposed to be in all the right places so I just that I think it's an issue it's it's not going to
fall apart but yes it may relate you say the soft stuff it may sort of be a tiny tiny tiny way just
loosening interior fixtures or something but yeah yeah unless you're going to keep the car for 100
years like is it really a big issue not I mean it's often the plastic it's just the plastics
around where the seatbelt's anchored to the B-pillar and stuff like that you get a creaky plastic
but I mean yes like you said it you're not going to need to worry about it for 12 years
or more I don't think so if it was a triumph herald with 150,000 miles on the clock and the
and the rear rear sills were definitely a little bit brand flaky then yeah you're going to notice
but yeah otherwise it's fine but yeah it's just but interesting question I mean if
if there are any car engineers listening who have extra information on that either that we're talking
shite or that in fact it's absolutely fine and do you get such a note at smithasniff.com is the
email address that's true actually we have real real car industry engineers who listen to this this
podcast yeah believably people what what know their stuff uh I usually do we do uh well actually
we're sort of out of time um we could uh I don't know if there's a short one if you find a short
my cats just decided to like sit on my lap and be a be a bit you know pick me
okay well that feels like the needy cat has tipped the balance it is time to wrap this
up but so as I said if you have got a question for us hello at smithasniff.com is the email address
start your subject line with autosot if you have a question because it helps us to find them
we'll be doing this again on Friday normal show on Monday until then goodbye bye everyone thank you
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About this episode
The hosts kick off by debating what Paula Cole meant by owning a “56 Chevy,” weighing whether it’s really a pickup with a bench seat or something else—then they pivot into classic-car lyric and interior speculation. From there, they swap scrapyard stories, including a modified 1996 Toyota Celica GT-Four showing up in Poland and a right-hand-drive Volkswagen ending up in California. The conversation broadens to right-hand-drive sourcing for film/TV, steering feel, and why cars creak on angled driveways—plus whether that’s a long-term concern.
In this episode of the Smith and Sniff second show, Jonny and Richard answer audience questions about a car confusion in Paula Cole’s biggest hit, your old cars spotted in strange places, LHD cars you wish were made in RHD, and is driving at a funny angle into a steep driveway bad for your car?
