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Johnny Smith and Richard Porter dive into their feelings of FOMO regarding the recent Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. They reminisce about their own experiences at the event and discuss the high caliber of cars showcased this year. The duo also debates the merits of Gordon Murray's new cars, particularly the S1 LM, comparing it to the T50 and sharing their thoughts on design choices. The conversation flows into humorous anecdotes about student cars and the quirks of automotive culture, making for an entertaining and insightful episode.
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gordon murray cars
student cars
car design
automotive culture
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Audi R8
Audi RS2
BMW 3 Series
BMW M3
BMW M4
BMW M5
Chrysler LeBaron
Dacia Sandero
Dodge Viper
Ferrari 195 S
Ferrari F355
Ferrari Luce
Ford Escort
Ford Expedition
Ford GT
Ford Mustang
Gordon Murray Automotive T.50
Lotus Esprit
McLaren F1
Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Nissan GT-R
Pontiac Aztek
Porsche 911
Porsche 928
Porsche 944
Porsche Boxster
Toyota Celica
Volkswagen Beetle
Volkswagen Golf
Jonny and Richard discuss Car Week envy, the new Gordon Murray specials, McLaren F1 wheels, the Porsche 968 Club Tropicana, listeners’ messages about incongruous student cars, a surprising shelf in a motorway service area, sighting a Ford Probe, a confusion involving David Attenborough, and why the Welsh buy so many Dacias.
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Soy Johnny Smith.
Soy Richard Porter.
Y este es Smith & Sniff,
un podcast en el que dos amigos conversan sobre carros y muchas otras cosas.
¿Habas, como yo,
una fomo enorme
sobre el pebble beach
sobre los carros y las cosas que sucedieron
una semana antes de la última?
Lo que hemos olvidado de mencionar.
Un pebble enorme,
solo como un avión de Tidal
sobre el pebble beach,
que engolzó todos los carros,
un avión de Tidal de Pebble Beach
para que suelto todos los carros
y lo desplazó para ver.
Yo era tan anoyosa
y no me gusta ser género
porque no es un buen trato, ¿verdad?
Pero yo justo kept looking at all these amazing photos
y normalmente es porque
yo quiero ir a California
porque el aire es bueno.
Pero en realidad el aire
fue increÃble aquÃ.
Asà que no tenÃa esa excusa.
Era solo la calidad de vehÃculos.
El calibro fue tan alto.
También hemos mencionado esto hace un par de veces,
pero de las personas que no se acuerdan,
el pebble beach concorso
y los eventos de la sur
es la de donde Smith y Sniff se nacieron.
SÃ.
Asà que se mantiene,
se mantiene un lugar especial en las cuartas.
SÃ, pero sÃ,
hemos only been once.
Exactamente.
Bueno, es lo que debes saber.
Es lo que debes hacer, ¿verdad?
No, no.
Es genial.
En un modo,
no creo que he tenido
una fomentada terrible
sobre la géneridad.
Desde que, ¿cuándo era?
2011 que fuimos.
SÃ.
Y pensé,
bueno, tuvimos tiempo.
Es genial.
No serÃa tan bueno la segunda vez.
Asà que no voy a perder su sueño.
Pero este año,
viendo a mucha gente
en los sociales hablando de esto,
pensé,
¡Ah!
Me gustarÃa que estuviera ahÃ.
Pero me gustarÃa que estuviera ahà con vosotros
porque pudimos tener un buen tiempo
nabrándolos.
Me acuerdo.
He tenido esta visión de nosotros.
¿Sabes?
Los millones de tu mente
jugando en el sur
con las géneridades de la géneridad
como
vas a ir en un barro en un barro en un barro en un barro en un barro en un barro en un barro
pero con una puerta inexplicablemente perdida.
Oh, sÃ.
¿Es blanco, por favor?
SÃ.
SÃ.
Y tú estás cazando a mÃ.
Y, de nuevo, no explicado.
Es como una fÃvederÃa.
Y
estoy jugando a un plato
pero me parece que voy a usar
una suera de blanco blanco
que está en el camino
cuando estoy jugando.
Porque te parece que definitivamente
vas a mojarme.
Y cuando te acercas a mÃ,
te overtacas,
pero te pones un magnum de champagne a mÃ.
Y te atras en el medio de la boca con el suelo.
Lo que me gusta de esta escena es que
te da más preguntas que me respondes.
Am I
perhaps wearing a David Coverdale
extremadamente blousy,
abierto de blanco?
Es un abierto de blanco
como hablábamos en los últimos castes.
Es la puerta de mi labarra
y se está perdiendo.
SÃ, sÃ.
Y
estoy usando
sunglasses de aviador
que han muy claramente
estado en las luces
y una arma se está perdiendo
para que no se sienta en la cabeza.
Pero, de nuevo,
no es necesario preguntar.
Es en el escenario general de esta escena.
Es un detalle menor.
Puedes preguntar sobre eso.
¿Qué pasa con tus sunglasses, Rich?
¿No quieres saber por qué
la puerta está perdiendo?
SÃ.
Oh, sÃ, perdón.
Me deberÃa preguntar eso primero.
SÃ.
Es como si
hicimos una versión de la hangover.
El film de la hangover.
Es eso, ¿no?
SÃ.
Asà que te has echado
un magnum de champagne a mi lado
y me ha caÃdo en el medio de la boca.
Y he caÃdo en el medio de la boca.
Y te ha empezado la risa.
Te has echado un poco de tu garganta
que tuviste el otro dÃa,
que tu mamá se preocupó.
Oh, sÃ.
Eso es lo que creo que tengo.
Y...
Y tu vestueta se mantiene
con un botón solo.
Y está en un full estrés
porque el viento está
tirando el vestuete
y bailando.
Creo que es...
En un botón
se está estresando
en las puertas un poco,
asà que no es asÃ
como si estés cerrado
a la fábrica.
Es un poco de tango.
Es realmente
en su camino.
Eso es lo que es.
Y todos los botones han ido.
SÃ.
Estás actualmente tirando una mano
y el otro
finger y el dedo
está colchando
en el botón.
Porque eres un poco
tan self-conscious
de una tienda totalmente abierta.
SÃ.
Bueno, ahà vamos.
Eso es lo que hemos hecho
si estuvimos en el carro.
Sin embargo,
no estuvimos
y muy feliz
para todo el otro dÃa.
Esto no se despliega.
Pero
una de las cosas que noté
que fue revelada
en uno de los eventos
que fue o era
estos dos nuevos caros de Gordon Murray.
SÃ.
El que estaba obteniendo
toda la atención
fue el...
es llamado el S1 LM.
SÃ.
Y es esencialmente
un...
lo que se llama,
creo que un homage.
Es un...
SÃ.
Es una re-creación
una interpretación moderna
del caro F1.
SÃ.
Bueno, especÃficamente,
porque es un rÃo rÃo.
O el F1 GTR.
SÃ, sÃ.
Asà que,
ha tenido ese rÃo.
Y es,
yo dirÃa,
muy, muy similar.
Se ve como una versión modernizada.
Puedes casi creer
si te justa tan rápido,
especialmente desde el rÃo,
que es solo un mod resto.
Y por esos caros,
porque ha tenido un rÃo moderno,
creo que el LED,
un rÃo rÃo,
con los platos.
Es como se ha hecho.
Se ha hecho los lujos
a través del rÃo.
Creo que es solo un combate
con el rÃo, ¿no?
Probablemente...
Me preguntó si es algo
que quieren hacer
a la primera vez,
pero solo no.
Porque
las luces en el F1
son efectivamente
luces de la fila.
Es...
es brillante.
El tapo
del rÃo rÃo
detrás de los rÃos rÃos
es el rÃo que me gusta.
Es un rÃo que va a...
como el rÃo de un bote,
que luego
el otro lado de él
encapsula
el rÃo rÃo.
¿Es una tendencia?
Porque es mi favorita parte.
Porque he notado que
el lamborghino temerario
también tiene un rÃo
bastante revelado
en cada lado.
SÃ.
No sé si es una nueva cosa.
¿Puedo ser un poco controversial,
aunque?
Y decir
que no estoy totalmente
soldado en este rÃo.
¡Oh!
Estoy confundido
porque
se siente
en un rÃo rÃo
que no puedo fully articular.
Es un rÃo rÃo rÃo
para mirar de atrás
como esto.
Right.
SÃ.
Y si puedo...
Si puedo ser
un poco más bolsada...
Por favor.
Se siente sinical para mÃ.
Se siente que no es un rÃo.
Ahora, tal vez que hablo,
hemos dicho que el rÃo rÃo
escucha este podcast,
aunque no estamos muy seguros,
eso es cierto, pero
me siente que no es el rÃo
que Gordon Murray
quiera hacer
porque no es
en general,
mi percepción es
una persona adecuada
cuando viene a su propio rÃo.
Yo sé que el rÃo rÃo 33
es un poco retro,
inspirado por
los rÃos 60,
pero en general
se siente que
él es,
como un engenero,
una persona adecuada.
Él habló
extensivamente
de cómo el rÃo rÃo 50
fue correctando
todas las cosas
que él no estaba feliz
sobre
con el rÃo F1.
Pero esas son muy técnicas
cosas como las luces.
SÃ.
Y
me parece que
él no querÃa
mirar adelante
y hacer
una recreatión
sobre
homar, sobre
pastiche de algo
que él ya ha hecho
hace años.
La razón que él ha hecho esto
es porque un customer
con el sentido de pagar
para él
se lo preguntó.
Y se dice,
escucha, Gordon,
mira.
Y el money talks.
Chapa.
Y él puso su arma
a Gordon
y lo tomó
como en los filmes.
Vamos a mirar
sobre
el rÃo T50
Spetsial.
Pero Gordon Murray
es un muy pequeño hombre
y este costumbre
que se parece
es bastante
guÃa.
Y asà en realidad,
lo que parece es que
él estaba intentando
poner algo
en una caja de alta
cuando él ha hecho esto.
No es como si
él estaba intentando
poner el money
en su caja de atrás.
SÃ.
O él
parece
él parece
el ap
en
cada una de las puertas.
Creo que eso es
exactamente lo que ha pasado.
Él dice,
él y Gordon
tenÃan un chat.
Y fue básicamente
mira,
yo amo el T50.
He already ordered
uno,
un tipo de uno,
otro.
¿Puedes hacer un re-body?
¿Puedes ser
como un tipo de casa de glico?
Pero,
por cierto,
él es un 100 millones de euros.
Yo creo que fue algo
en los lÃneos.
En Gordon,
siempre el creativo,
pero también el ingeniero,
cuando
puedo probablemente
arreglar algo.
Y sé
que Gordon
tiene una caja
llena de postes.
Entonces,
él fue a un café
o su baño
y en algún lugar
en un evento
y dijo,
¡vamos a un rápido go!
Y él se arregló.
Y el hombre
dijo,
¡Eso es genial!
¡A ver a vosotros en seis meses!
¿Tiene algo como eso?
¿No?
No,
solo podemos especular,
pero sÃ,
no creo que eso es correcto.
Lo extraño,
ahora he read
dos versiones de esto.
La historia standard
que ha estado
ahà en la semana o asÃ,
es que
van a hacer cinco de estos
y han todos
sido traÃdos
por el mismo cliente.
¿De verdad?
Por lo tanto,
he also read somewhere else
that three of the five
are going to the same customer.
So I don't know
what the true story is.
I'm sure we can find out.
Watch this space,
we will ask.
But
We absolutely will.
In the olden days,
you just said,
well, that's obviously
the Sultan of Brunei
or his brother Jeffrey.
Yes.
These days,
not so much.
So we don't really have a steer
on who might have commissioned five.
I presume sort of identical
in shape,
if not color and trim
cars of this nature.
But what
the other problem I have with this
sorry to be a down on it,
but it feels like everybody else
has got a raging stiffy for it.
So I feel like it's important
to provide a counterpoint.
My other slight issue with it
is that there's no doubt.
It looks great.
It sort of serves to remind us
that the original McLaren F1
and Peter Stevens styling
on that car was
really good and timeless.
You know, it just it is sort of
it occupies itself.
It looks like an F1.
It doesn't really look dated
because it looks like a McLaren F1.
It has a strong enough identity
and those great proportions
and everything.
So the the S1
looks broadly like that
excellent looking car
and it does rather make the T50
not as attractive.
Yes.
And that's the other bit
that I find puzzling
as you go, if you bought a T50,
you'd be looking at that and going,
what?
So hang on,
the T50 could have looked like that.
Why didn't it?
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Well, this is the joy of the revisit.
Is it not?
Because if Gordon adjust,
if GMA had just done
the F1 again
in terms of aesthetics,
there could have been
a whole barrage of people
and probably not that many people
actually, not a barrage,
could have just gone
but you've just brought
the F1 back
but because the F1
it only did,
it was only one car
and it's whatever it is,
it's 30, isn't it?
It's 30 years old.
So you go,
well, we've waited 30 years,
it's fine.
But I agree with you.
I think I prefer this
to the T50
but that's because I've probably
said it before.
I think the fascination
for T50 for me
is the engineering
and knowing what's gone into it
beneath the skin.
The skin of it,
the front doesn't do a great deal for me.
I like the back.
I actually prefer the T33 visually
but of course T33
you can't fit three bodies in it.
So a bit of a shame.
The other thing about this S1
is that stops it from
looking too retro
is the fact that
it hasn't got the F1 wheels,
the soft line.
That's what's always dated
the McLaren F1 for me
is those soft line alloys
because if you remove those
and put, I don't know,
speed line type wheels on it,
for example,
that kind of stand the test of time
a little bit,
you can't era date them so much.
And this one's got fairly squared off edged
five spokes.
You just go, yeah, OK.
But the McLaren F1 alloys,
I always as someone
that's quite nerdy about wheels,
I always wanted to change
the McLaren F1's wheels.
But hey,
I'm such an authority
on the subject compared to Gordon Murray.
Well, so there's that.
I think because the wheels on this S1
are supposed to look like
the ones on the original F1 GTL,
which were OZ Racing wheels.
So yeah, I know what you mean.
I personally, I don't mind
the wheels on the McLaren F1.
I think they're not overdone.
But yes, they're a bit
they're off their time,
like they're a bit soft, maybe.
They're soft
and that was the 90s thing.
You only need to look at the escort
Cosworth for another absolute.
Oh, my God, there is a two soft.
Yeah, that's I mean,
those are two soft.
Those are like, did you leave these
by a radiator when you were doing
the clay modeling?
There's a fact speaking of its time,
there's a picture that I saw somewhere.
I think it was in the Peterson Museum
next to the F1 they had on display
of Gordon Murray and Peter Stevens
looking at a full size design drawing,
I think of the F1
rather than the clay model
and the voluminousness of the trousers.
Oh, oh.
The shirts is epic,
but so of its time, of course,
it is, it's the very early 90s.
Pleta Stevens.
Pleta, she knows.
Pleta, Pleta Stevens is
Pleta, she knows.
I can imagine
I've got to see this photo now
because I can just imagine.
I'll try to get out
and if I find it, I'll stick it on the picture.
The surplus fabric must be amazing.
It's it's incredible.
It's like, did you watch that clip
where I said you were from Jasper Carrot?
What was it called?
Carrot's Confidential was the show in the late 80s.
I did.
And the first episode of that is on YouTube
and his clothes are, I mean,
there's a reason that was filmed in a studio
rather than outdoors
and it is purely because
if there'd been a light breeze,
Carrot would have been raised into the air like a kite.
Carrot never did beach walks
in the 80s, never.
I just don't remember him
being such a loose clothing enthusiast,
pero yo creo que todo estaba.
Eso es el punto.
Es como, no, no era una excepción.
Él es solo vestido,
lo que es la clave del tiempo.
Bueno, y es ahora de vuelta.
Es, esto es lo que pasa.
Muchos de los claves.
Y es genial porque los hotes
son las condiciones que hemos tenido en el UK.
De todas maneras,
este desgraciado de la noche
es perfecto para los claves.
De todas maneras,
mira.
He encontrado la foto, por favor.
Vean, vean.
Vean.
Vean.
Vean.
Vean.
Vean la luz.
¡Ah, eso es increÃble!
También,
vamos a poner esta foto ahÃ,
pero es importante notar que en el diseño de diseño,
la F1,
se parece bastante como el que sabemos en el carro,
pero tiene unas
muy diferentes
seis esposas.
Tiene unas direcciones.
Las rupturas de ángeles.
Ahora,
espero que si estaban planeando esto,
tendrÃan que las teneras manos
para que la otra parte
el ángel tendrÃa que ir adelante efectivamente,
porque
eso siempre llangó mi OCD
cuando
en el lado de una de las esposas,
entonces,
como cuando el XR3i
y el Turbo RS Escort
se han
paredado en el 86,
se han colocado esposas de ángeles,
pero, por supuesto, no se han tomado,
porque el Ford
no va a desplazarse por dos setas de esposas,
asà que se ve mal de una de las esposas.
Me gusta esa foto.
Pensé que para
una de nuestras imágenes,
en el final de este año,
deberÃamos encontrar
una esposa,
una esposa de los años 80,
de los años 90,
asà que no una suave,
necesariamente,
puede ser una combinación de chino y suave.
Tal vez es el momento
para Smith y Snif,
para tener esposas.
No lo sé,
lo estoy diciendo.
Estaba siempre desplazando en mÃ
que me dio un suave,
una de las que tenÃa.
Mis padres me han traido una suave,
o sea, me parece que es mi abuelo.
En 1991,
fue increÃble,
escojo,
fue double-brester.
¡Oh, pues!
Y tenÃa un suave,
fue un tipo de...
¿Es equilitario?
No tan,
fue bastante lento,
pero tenÃa un color muy lento,
darkness verde.
¿Sand?
¿Es el color de la cruz de la cruz de la cruz de la cruz?
¿Sand?
El color de la cruz de la cruz de la cruz de la cruz de la cruz?
No era tan alto.
SÃ.
La cruz de la cruz de la cruz.
SÃ, pero la lusinidad.
Fue tan lento.
En el alto viento, ¿deberÃa hacer un rÃo por la superficie?
SÃ, sÃ. No, eso sÃ.
Era peligroso de poner sobre una cierta velocidad de viento.
Pero, mira, antes de olvidar,
tengo que cambiar el objeto
y tengo que decir algo que me prometo
de una de nuestras listas que haré.
Hacé.
Que es...
No lo generalmente hacemos.
¿SuscrÃbete?
¿No?
No.
Y, en realidad,
hay una lista llamada de Luke.
Y él dice,
señoras y señoras, no hay insultos aquÃ.
Quiero intentar mantenerlo a lado.
No sé que los saludos son muy radios, también.
¿Pero podrÃas dar un salud
a mis amigos buenos, Jack y Essie,
que se han marcado en el 13 de augustio?
Están afortunados en el sur de Francia
en su desgraciada porcia 944.
Las fotos están completas con Smith y stiff sticker.
Ahora, seguramente,
aquà es una foto de una lua roja,
roja de la roja 944.
¿En dónde?
Siempre llaman las cuchillas de las cuchillas, ¿no?
SÃ.
Las cuchillas que...
SÃ.
Yo pensé que en una roja de la roja de la roja,
las personas se están todo emocionadas
sobre los teléfonos y los teléfonos de las cuchillas de las cuchillas
que hay en las cuchillas de las 944.
Creo que estas cuchillas de las cuchillas
son muy buenas,
especialmente en el silver,
como son en este carro.
He tenido tiempo para las personas
que no las cambian,
porque las personas las hacen.
Las hacen, no?
¿Las marcaron?
¿Las cuchillas de las cuchillas o diferentes?
Y se dice, no,
déjame la cuchilla.
Y eso es exactamente
lo que Jack y Essie se han hecho aquÃ.
Entonces,
he checado con Luke y he dicho,
SÃ, sÃ.
Perdón,
el 13 de agosto
ha pasado.
Presumemente,
han already driven
to the south of France.
Pero en la esperanza de
catching them on the return journey,
he just wanted to say congratulations
to Jack and Essie
for your recent wedding
and hope the road trip
is going well in the Porsche.
Congratulations
and great car choice.
Obviamente,
I've had a bit of
rear gearbox
Porsche saturation
going on on the
late break show recently.
And the feedback's been lovely.
So many people have gone.
I'm not really into Porsches
because
911s get all the limelight,
etcétera, etcétera.
But having seen 9, 6, 8
Cs y 9, 2, 4
Turbo S's
and all the kind of under
underexposed Porsches
that are often
much more affordable
got a bit of a thing on for them.
So, yeah.
That's a good point.
I watched that video
and I was thinking, oh, yeah.
Now 9, 6, 8
club sport.
What a car.
Yeah.
People haven't seen this.
Go to the late break show channel.
It's what was two weeks ago.
That video.
Yeah,
would have been about a fortnight.
It is a good chat.
The guy's lovely, James.
Yes.
What a nice guy.
What what do 9, 6, 8
club sports go for these days?
I didn't bother to check
even though I sort of
watched the video going.
I think between about
ropey, maybe late 20s
and immaculate, maybe 40.
But they're exceptionally rare
examples of the mud.
But I could see you with one
where you change the decal on the side
and it says Club Tropicana
instead of sport.
And people look twice and go,
what?
What's a?
What's a?
What's a?
What's a?
Because of course the colors that it came in
are quite Bermuda shorty colors.
Yes.
What's a?
What's a 9, 6, 8
club Tropicana CT?
What's that?
And you just go, yeah.
They are Bermuda shorty colors, aren't they?
Very, very Bermuda shorty.
Was it only some colors on the club sport
came with the wheels color match the body?
I think so.
I mean, this is when I need James,
the chap who interviewed
because he knows all about.
He's fully immersed in the CS game.
But I'm pretty sure.
Yeah.
So the yellow car has the yellow car
had yellow wheels.
I'm pretty sure his car.
His cars were all correct.
Was the blue car
on black wheels?
I think it was.
One was on black wheels.
Yeah.
The red one.
I've got to look at my own photos.
But then was there a yellow one on yellow wheels?
I'm forgetting that.
The yellow one was on yellow wheels,
which must be an absolute brake dust bastard.
BD, BDB.
Yeah.
I've noticed that in this kind of way
because we've had such a dry
hot summer,
my poor Boxster,
which I've only just cleaned
after the Goodwood dust bowl.
The brake dust on that car has been
quite phenomenal over the last few weeks
because I've been thoroughly enjoying it
piling on the miles's
and miles's.
And yeah, really.
In fact, I drove it this morning.
I didn't step my house last night
and I set off and did quite.
Quite some very early morning road work
and it was exceptionally satisfying.
Apart from,
you know when you go into a big roundabout
that you know you can take at speed
and you think you've picked the line,
the right line,
the optimum driving line.
I'm not going to say racing line
because we don't race on the road.
No.
But unfortunately right on that line
there's a huge chunk of tarmac missing
and you don't see it until you've already committed.
Yes.
And you do the wints as you go,
no, I'm slightly on the turn
and I've got low profile tires
and I'm just about to clang down this massive hole.
It's a very British thing, I think, at the moment.
We've got appalling roads.
There's a corner I go around on a lane
not far from here
and I go down it quite regularly
and down what one might term the apex.
They're like you say, we don't drive,
like it's a racetrack,
but on the inside as you come around
one direction there is a sort of natural line
you'd want to take
and there is a ready great hole there
and it's a source of deep joy that quite recently
they've filled in the hole
and put a decent job of it.
So you can come in tighter to the apex.
It's nice.
Brings me more satisfaction
than I should probably admit,
but I hope I'm not alone.
I like to think there's other people
who drive down that road
and have the same thing
and go, oh, good.
They've fixed the apex hole.
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Now, can I change the...
Can I change the...
Oh, by the way, I just looked this up
and according to this,
this is Rush Magazine, as you say.
Five colors are available for the ClubSport Black,
Maritime Blue, Guards Red, Grand Prix White
and Speed Yellow.
And as standard,
the car came with ClubSport decals
and colour-coded 17-inch cup design wheels.
Lovely wheels.
You could opt for silver wheels
and decal deletion if you wanted to.
I don't think they have the same wheels
as the RS2, aren't they?
The Audi RS2.
Same design, yeah.
Just a great wheel.
I wanted, if I could, to do a backref too.
Last week's...
No, the week before's Autosol,
the one we did at Piston Head's annual service
and we had a question from someone in the audience
about incongruous cars driven by students.
Oh, yeah.
And remember this chap,
knew someone who had an M5 at university
and it all seemed crazy,
particularly because they were in Bristol.
Yeah.
It's opened up a bit of a conversational piece this, hasn't it?
It started with, as you might know,
we upload this show audio only to YouTube every week
because a few people still listen through there.
And the comments on YouTube started this off as a chap
calling himself Steve Smith Software
who says in the late 70s at Birmingham University
there was a student from Aswell's Persia
of my acquaintance
who had a brand-new Mercedes 450SEL.
What?
No, no, no, no.
It's to make it even more outrageous
because he couldn't drive.
It came with a chauffeur.
No way.
A student with a brand-new S-Class,
long wheelbase.
He concludes by saying,
I really wish I had photos of what the street looked like
when his family came to visit,
but I'm sure you can imagine, jeez.
Was it like coming to America, that scene when...
Yes.
The whole family, they were in S-Classes
and they turned up in a dodgy part of New York, didn't they?
Like Harlem or...
No, Queens.
Someone else on the YouTube says,
since you guys mentioned Holdens,
when I was an art student
and mate of my day-leader, Holden Tarana,
ex-U1, they're worth upwards of
$200,000 Australian dollars.
No way.
Day-lead.
Day-lead.
He would often get drunk when we were out.
So I'd often get to drive it.
Oh my...
Just often get drunk Monday morning.
No, fancy a drink.
Listen, I just didn't realise that there were so many...
there'd be so many stories,
I think they're going to keep coming.
Well...
Especially international students.
Yeah, well, it's a thing.
So someone else on YouTube says
there was a viper and a Rolls Royce in my high school.
I imagine this is in the US.
He says, I went to a wealthy school district,
but still, that's a bit much.
It's just...
I think we talked about it before,
it's just scenes of watching films
when I was a kid
and there was always a girl that went to high school
in a brand new golf clipper, Cabriolet.
Yes.
And you were like,
that is like a cool car for any grown-up
in the UK at all.
Like if you bought that at some point in your life
you were made.
And this girl's just turned 17
or 16 even and got one.
The exemplar of that was Beverly Hills 98210.
Yes.
Well, I think it's because they were all meant to be minted, wasn't it?
It's Beverly Hills for...
Well, it's 90210, isn't it?
Well, exactly.
Do you ever go on an American website?
You just want to browse
like the Chevrolet website for research or whatever
and it says, please editor, your zip code.
And the only zip code I can remember
is 90210.
So I can't remember like my in-laws zip codes
but 90210 does the job.
We had an email
from someone identifying themselves
only as Australian listener.
Brilliant.
He says, during my university days
I was seeing a girl that was quite well off.
Upon getting her license
she was given the old family smoker.
He's put old in inverted commas.
It was a 2013 Porsche KN GTS.
Oh, I read this.
I read this letter.
Yeah, this is a good letter.
He says, at the time,
I had a Toyota Celica
making her a step-Celica lady.
An excellent thought.
Or was it a Celica lady in waiting?
Would you call it?
Maybe so, yes.
Anyway, he says,
we attended a remote university
and our peculiar cars were,
to my enjoyment,
quite attention-seeking,
especially when I put my Celica
on race suspension
and chopped the exhaust off.
Her parents often visited
in a fine range of cars
including a new KN GTS
and Aston Martin Vantage F1 edition
and my favourite
at BMW M4 GTS.
Not a bad suite of vehicles.
No, he's attached photos
of all of these
and they do indeed look sweet.
That's nuts though,
there's really quite smart-looking,
new-ish KN GTS
was a student car.
I'll click through a few more of these
because they are pretty nuts.
There's a list to call Felix
who says that,
on the subject of student cars
there are definitely two categories,
overseas students and British students.
Seeing that overseas students
have to pay around
triple the tuition fees,
they are often quite well-off.
And one student in our year
had a white Audi R8 Spyder.
What?
He says that the flashiest option
driven by a British student
was a Volvo C30R design
also in white.
An amazing looking thing
with awful boot space.
Listen, I'll have no bad words
said against the C30R design.
Yeah, they're quite nice-looking cars, aren't they?
A list to call Paul
says I was at Cambridge
in the mid-80s.
There was a pair of brothers
who were allegedly Nigerian princes
and they drove a brace
of matching Porsche 928s.
A brace?
Yeah.
One is a brace.
One is, I suppose.
Two.
Okay, okay.
This was despite, Paul says,
there being a ban
on students bringing a car with them.
So where did they put them then?
Well, I don't know
because Paul would know this
because he says I also flouted
the ban, but I drove
an algal and frilly Datsun 120y Coupe.
The thinking ban's Porsche 928.
I was going to say
that it couldn't be further apart,
could it?
928 and an algal 120y.
These are cool now,
but to a lot of younger listeners
who are really into the Japanese car thing,
those sorts of cars in the UK
were, well, nearly always rotten,
but also really looked down upon
for ages.
And I don't know why.
I think it was the whole
slight, slightly kind of racist thing
of like, oh, you don't want
to buy an old 70s Japanese car.
Even though they were fantastic
and they had five speed all the time
and everything worked.
We've had a listener
from the US, Pete,
who says back in the late 90s,
I had a friend attending,
I can't pronounce this,
Lehigh, it's L-E-H-I-G-H.
Lehigh, Lehigh.
Lehigh, Lehigh.
I mean, if it was in Scotland,
it would probably be pronounced
like Lead or Lang or something,
but I don't know.
This is the US.
So Lehigh University
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
which, he notes,
is Leigh Iacocca's alma mater.
Oh.
But his friend's roommate,
drove, this is the late 90s,
drove a Lotus Esprit Turbo.
What year was this?
Late 90s, you say.
Late 90s, yeah.
So what, this is also,
the Esprit Turbo in the US
has presumably had a bit of a
boost in profile
thanks to basic instinct.
Of course.
And pretty woman before that.
Yes.
Yes, of course,
basic instinct
because she outruns
Thingy Douglas in his,
I think he had a fox body
mustang detective car.
Yes, yes.
Deep V-spec.
Yes, yeah.
Deep V.
Pete says that technically
he thinks the roommate
was car-sitting in inverted commas
but for four years,
three exclamation marks.
He also says that his brother
is a cop back in his home
state of Massachusetts
where there are a handful
of incredibly posh
private business colleges.
One of them is called Babson College
and when the students
aren't being dropped off
in the family helicopter
they're driving at breakneck speed
down the dark narrow windy leafy lanes
in all sorts of Ferraris,
G-Vargens, GT3RS,
Aston's Bentley's, etc.
They get ticketed so often
they must be responsible
for about 20%
of the town's operating budget.
Bloody hell.
Bloody hell.
No, this is bananas.
Before we do drop,
I do wanna drop back briefly
to Pebble Beach.
I know we're talking about cars.
I know we're talking about cars.
Two observations this week
whilst out on the road.
One, unfortunately I was stuck
in a massive traffic jam.
One of the ones where you can get out
of your car and sit next
to your car for a while.
Yes.
The other week, which was boring.
But I was next to a
truck, a big long flatbed
truck which was carrying
two tarmac rollers
and I spent
a while staring at them
because I had time to kill
and one of them,
a big shout out to the Ham HD13
HAWM,
which I think is a German company
that make these rollers
because its rear light clusters
are rather lovely.
Its got oval rear light clusters
that are set, recessed into
the bodywork so they don't get
smashed off by tarmac people.
And I am sure they're the same
as the Volkswagen Beetle
from about 1961 to 1967.
They are really, really lovely.
Quite dainty things.
I don't know if they're used
on any other HAWM model
but this was the HD13
or so the sticker said on it.
So I was quite taken by that.
You know what you need to do here
of course is
fire up the Jason Torchinski balloon here.
Oh gosh, yes.
I do, don't I?
VW Beetles are his
specialist subject but so are
tail light clusters so this feels like
this is the perfect Venn diagram
torch we should get torch on it.
We need to get torch on the case
we do absolutely.
And the other thing that I saw
I thought would definitely
be worthy of discussion on this
very podcast.
After getting stuck in traffic
for a long time, about an hour
I had to stop at some services
to get a drink
and a toilet.
Place called Grange Farm Services
I am going to shout them out
because I'm just going to divulge a fact
and the fact is that I walked in
and I saw a magazine
rack on the right as I walked in
and I couldn't help but glance at it
and it only sold pornography.
What?
There were no other types of magazines
on either of the two shelves
it was entirely filled with skin magazines
Couldn't believe it.
I know and I checked my watch
it was definitely 2025
it was last week
and I couldn't stop laughing
I nearly took a photo
and then I thought no I'm not going to take a photo
yeah I know like
probably 20 different types
of mag
when I left the services
and this is the
Smith & Stiff centric bit
when I left the services
there were
no it wasn't
the grot mags word
but being
fuelled up
was an immaculate
thord probe
being driven by
a guy who can't
have been more than about 21
and is a presumed his girlfriend
in the passenger seat who also looked a similar age
and I was like
whoa
a probe
being cherished by someone
A and B being driven by a young person
are probes finally cool
and is it because of the flip up
headlight thing?
I saw a young chap
yesterday in a lovely
E33 series
just a normal one
like nothing, not an M3
but I just thought well
that's cool and retro isn't it
if you're 23
oh my gosh my nephew
yearns for a base model
E30, he doesn't care
it could be a 316 with absolutely nothing going on
and it'll be dog slow
but he just wants one
yeah but that's the point, if you're going too fast
people can't see you in your cool retro cast
that's right
a couple of people came up to us
at the piston heads event
and said
thank you for your podcast
it kind of in a strange way helps me to feel better
or to deal with my ADHD
and we're actively demonstrating that today
because we've sort of moved on
before we'd acknowledged there were actually
two Gordon Murray cars at
Pebble Beach
the other one was this
LeMond GTR which isn't retro
it sort of looks
like it's own thing
it's meant to be
sort of inspired by long tail
so the GT, the F1 long tails
and stuff but it doesn't look like them
it doesn't, I mean what does it look like
I don't know, the rear three quarter
angle, a very quick glance
I'd almost mistake it for the
current Ford GT
or the last Ford GT
only because it's got single round rear lights
and then a big wing
but I don't know what to make of that really
I think it's cool
that they're still
bringing cars out
they're a busy bunch
supposedly more to come
there's going to be more of these special vehicles
but as you've mentioned before
I think the T33 is a very nice looking car
and I would have one
I wonder
because I saw a picture
off of Pebble Beach
of cars driving around
near Big Sur
and all that
I saw the Gordon Murray Rocket
ah yes
a little rocket and I do wonder
and if this is already known
I apologise, do you think
that he's going to remake the rocket
I bet it's crossed his mind
so a smaller
cheaper, simpler car
than the T50s
and the T33s of the world
but still most definitely
a GMA product
I suppose the issue
is making the sums add up
because what were the rockets when they were new
they weren't cheap
no they're worth a lot of money now
did you know this?
they really are, yeah
they're very appealing
very appealing
I was just going to do one more
sorry to everyone who sent a message
about in congress student cars
maybe we'll do some more next time
but this one particularly caught my eye
he said
I had an ex military vw 181
it was a daily in West Yorkshire
while at Breton Hall University
of Leeds in 1992
gosh
but in a friend's
uni hostel in West Breton
there was a mature student
from a wealthy background
he had
a 1980 911 turbo
and a similar village 924 turbo
what?
no, it gets better
my friend
was regularly asked to drive him around in these cars
because the student was blind
what?
and my friend would give him the thrill he wanted from them
which is why he had them parked up on campus
so he had two turbo porches
as a student
but was blind so therefore
he definitely couldn't drive
yeah
I guess just invite trusted people to drive around
and predicts to get a thrill
it's really cool
but also two cars
not just the one, I mean one of those would have been
more than enough
oh sorry, there's just one more that caught my eye
which is from a listener called Sarju
says when I was at medical school
towards the end of my third year in 2004
there was a guy who had wealthy parents
in India and they bought him a red
Ferrari F355
Spyder with beige leather
it was the talk of the year
naturally
as a medical student
worse than that
as a medical student Sarju says
he used to take it to placements
it was quite the sight
given that we were in east London
oh this is my worry you see
my mind immediately jumps to
these are great cars
but they're not going to be parked in the right places
they're going to be at risk
I would just feel very
self conscious
and it would just be a stress
having a really nice car like that
and then going oh you've got a placement
your placement is in south east London
where there's not a lot of Ferrari street parks
and it might get gobbled on or scratched
or whatever or nicks
you're buying another problem
if I was the parent
if you qualify as a medical
as a doctor
will buy you a 355 Ferrari
how's that? you go wow that's amazing
thanks mum and dad
but you're not having it until you leave a dingy part of London
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I was going to talk about the car that
do you know the car that won
it's one of those things where there's so many vehicles
there's so much news
and stuff that happens
at car week
you sort of forget what won
the Pebble Beach Concours Delegance
mate
I didn't notice what was it
well this was the 74th
Pebble Beach Concours Delegance
and 229 cars
entered
from 22 countries
I'll have you know
but the best of the show
was in 1924
Hispano Suiza
H6C
Newport Astrid Torpedo
Shown by Penny and Leanderson
from Naples and Florida
and this Hispano Suiza
really ticked every single box
according to concourse chairman
Sandra Button
the underpinnings are technically advanced
the body's meticulously handcrafted
it's light, it's lovely
and it's notably commissioned
a paratif
what? I'm reading this
it was notably
it was notably commissioned by
a paratif Sion
Andre Dubonnet
and he raced it in both
Targa Florio and Copa Florio
a later owner owned
a later owner
added pontoon fenders to the car
but the Anderson sought to return the car
to its original form
as you can see
and truly appreciate its torpedo shape
known as the tulip wood
the car is in fact constructed
of strips of mahogany
each individually carved
painstakingly to shape
and joined to the inner ribs
by 8,500 rivets
it
it reportedly
weighed just 160 pounds
when it was first built
oh my gosh it's an exquisite example
of the Margaret should
do you think I'd have to look up
the previous winners but
is it the case that
it feels like those
the Pebble Beach winners
are always a bit
separate headlights
yeah there's that unbelievable
jelly mould one
which is one of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen
and I'd have to go back through the winners
do you know what I'll do it next week
and I'll describe it
in great detail
but yeah
I think there's a lot of separate headlights
and rah rah rah
prewar
but
there's a lot of other parts of
the car weeks that are becoming much
younger
I think the quail is becoming younger
there's more 80's
90's centric cars
which obviously is more relatable to
people our age
and people slightly younger than us
so yeah I get it
it goes back to the probe you saw isn't it
it is great that a younger generation
is interested in cars
but I think that the car world
it would be great if the car world
embraced that
we don't need to throw away hispano
swissers there's still be some people
who really enjoy them but
can we move the way
imagine that
so eccentric
yeah I've engine swapped it
I was really
bored so I commissioned
some TSW Venoms
in the right size
and I fitted those to it for a bit
or some incredibly soft look escort cars
just for shits and giggles
because I'm mental
because I'm just that guy
I think if we were at auction house
we would call ourselves shits and giggles
which I think would be good
shits would be a sort of
German spelling
and then yeah I think it would be great
I was just looking down the list of
the Pebble Beach Concourse winners
this year so the best of show
in 1924 hispano swisser
best of show nominees were also
in 1939 my back and in 1933
Invicta
elegance awards, 1933 Rolls Royce
1937 Bugatti, 1951 Ferrari
1953 Siata
and then special awards
1934, 1908, 1967
Oh modern, wow
and then in the chairman's trophy
there was a 1989 Ferrari
but it was a 640 so an F1 car
and then following that
the Charles A. Chain trophy
was run by 1910 Benz
it is
it skews old
I'm going down this list and at no point
is there any mention of a Chrysler Lebaron
door missing or not
and I find that disappointing
is where the lemons comes into it
isn't it, that's where the lemons
which has grown massively
in popularity
and probably more our bag
do you know what
next year we've got to go
we'll make a pact, we're going to go
we've got to give it a try haven't we
we've got to go, we will find another golf cart
but at the actual
Pebble Beach Concourse
where there's the plinth and all of the streamers
are thrown over the winning car
and all that stuff
and then immediately
they use a very delicate version of a leaf blower
to get them off again
so you don't damage the paint
I think
any kind of car like that
in the same way that if you're going to
like the Goodwood Revival or something this year
the cars which you wouldn't normally think to look at
just take a bit of time
to look at them
and learn about them
and as you get older
and appreciation of cars will grow
hopefully
I know that sounds a bit preachy, it's not meant to
but I've really enjoyed
broadening my automotive horizon
as I've got bit older
and my taste has sort of meandered slightly
and that's okay
I've just looked at the castigaries
there are in fact lots of castigaries
at the Pebble Beach Concourse
turns out this year they include one for Land Rover Special Expedition Vehicles
which is interesting
oh really
yeah you are
sorry
but it feels like maybe the judges
in terms of the overall winner
they do sort of skew that way a little bit
but I'm sure
it'll change at some point
I don't know
it's very nice
where we were there
I remember looking up close at some of those cars
cords
and probably some hispanosuisas
and thinking
me, this is clearly beautifully put together
and it's been polished
to an incredible mirror finish
but
it doesn't excite me as much
as if I turned around
and there was a
absolutely show respect Pontiac Aztec
are you
angling to take the metro
turbo to Pebble Beach next year
obviously you will air lift it over there
yes I won't drive it
I don't even
have it shipped to New York at a drive cross country
it might be tempting fate
just be amazing
yeah
I would imagine that
that would be amazing, we need to talk about this
it would be bloody brilliant
I would love that
what a good idea
with the danger of talking about cars again
I know what you complained last week
did we
just a few people went what's all this
so
I realised I'd noted down
because you told me to write it down
because I said this to you when we were recording
I don't know why this is
relevant to anyone but when I was a kid
I thought that the song hit me with your rhythm stick
by Ian Dury
was actually by David Attenborough
and I cannot explain why
I must have been
when was that sorry
I don't even know
I would have been like four
I vividly remember
I think I'd sort of got into bed
my parents one morning and they both got up
and I was just lying there and their clock radio
had radio 2 coming out of it
and I heard that song and I was like
oh here's that song that's by David Attenborough
but
in my head
I think it might be because at some point I'd seen Attenborough on the TV
with a little stick, a cane or something
you're so weird
and I assumed he'd written a song about his rhythm stick
but that's it
in my head it made perfect sense
there was a little video of it
playing in my head of Attenborough
in a safari suit
with a stick going
even though Ian Dury doesn't sound anything like
David Attenborough
Ian Dury was very kind of East End cockany type
and Attenborough's received pronunciation
yes
old school BBC
1979 so that would trick
that would figure because I'd have been four
that's great
I love that
it's another fantastic song
I can add to my roster of
great songs
it says here it was released on the 1st of December 1978
but I guess it would have
been on the radio and all that
so we're not allowed to talk about any more car stuff
so
should we talk about utter...
I mean actually what I was going to say was
I saw another effing probe
the same week
that I saw that probe
that was possibly going and buying
a lot of grot from that service station
yep
tank full of super and later D5 on the probe
pump 11
and can I have that mag and that one
and that filthy one as well
thank you cheers mate
I mean it's amazing because I haven't seen a probe for years
I'm not sure I saw one at
Festival of the Unexceptional
don't think I did it either
it was a 16 valve I checked
so it would have been illegible for
Festival of the Unexceptional
too much
just too much
way too much
did you hit me with your rhythm stick
was the number one single
well I didn't know it was number one
but I knew it was their best
ranked song
probably most people's only
during the blockhead song
I just didn't realise it was that successful
cos I felt like ear jury was a bit
not quite mainstream
it didn't travel well
which there are
and maybe other places like
Australia I don't think he
during the blockheads was particularly international
but well worth listening
no cos I just saw this somewhere
now I've lost it again
that it was
it charted in Australia I saw it
did it
yeah hang on let me find this again
yes it went to number two in Australia
well there was a great sample
used from in during the
musicians were
all on the top of their
game fantastic drumming and guitar
and keyboards
but there was a great
song called
Tribe Called Quest
can I kick it obviously uses
the bass line
from
who is it, Lou Reed
Walk on the Wild Side
does it walk on the Wild Side
but the chorus
the sort of main part
the other part of the song uses
uses a bass line from
what a waste
by ear during the blockheads
just so does it
yes in case anyone gives a shit
yes it does
and I flip in love
and I have always enjoyed
ear jury in the blockheads
but in my mid 20s I just went
full ear jury in the blockheads
I used to play it almost nonstop
and I don't know why
but I definitely didn't think
David Attenborough was involved
you fucking idiot
I can't explain why
but I feel like this is not the only example
of where I've
certainly in my childhood
I was convinced that a song was by somebody
that it was not by at all
but it's the one that sticks in my mind
because it seems so ridiculous in retrospect
but I can still summon up the image
I had in my head of Attenborough
Hit me
I now want Attenborough
to be talking about sex and drugs
and rock'n'roll and I want
bless the late ear jury
if he was still alive I'd want him to be doing
sensible nature programs
without being allowed to swear
and you could tell he's really struggling
because he wants to say a few effing seas now
and again because it's just in his nature
but he's talking about
an incredible swan
like creatures and albatross
etc
well none of that's correlated
so we've balanced out the tables there haven't we
yeah
if I could bring it back to cars
I was
in Wales last week
and
I noticed again something that we've discussed
we've discussed off the show
which is the number of datures that you see around
a big saturation
in south Wales
I mean it's just extraordinary
I was trying to take a picture
washed the table the cars are, I've got the car of three of four dashes in a row parked up, but it wasn't quite the perfect sweep.
It wasn't like a fruit machine kind of, but yeah, they're everywhere, and I sort of feel like maybe it says something.
I was thinking about it to be driving through various Welsh villages, and I was thinking about how un
ostentatious Welsh churches are in rural places.
y te vas a una vÃa de una vÃa tÃpica de inglés de una cierta tamaño
y tendrán, de vez en cuando, una iglesia desproporcionante
con una gran espalda o una espalda.
Y no te encuentras mucho en Wales.
En realidad hay una iglesia desproporcionante
que pasé a un lugar llamado Panclout
en la provincia de Garpin.
Pero si no, te encuentras esos modos,
muy oscuros, colores de color, en Wales.
Y pensé, el Dacia, creo que puedes traer una lÃnea,
no sé si estoy hablando de nada,
pero creo que puedes traer una lÃnea
de moda Welsh metodismo
para el modo de Wales,
la embracing del Dacia.
Estás viviendo dentro de tu mente,
estando sensibles, no estando flasco,
hay una cierta modosidad
que creo que está en el corazón de la soul de Wales
como resultado de los años.
Con todo el caro de financiamiento
que está pasando en el momento en las noticias
y el descanso de la financiación,
¿puedes pensar que esto es
ir right back to the old school
where Welsh people are buying Dacia's
outright old school?
They go into a Dacia dealer
and they go,
I really want a base model Sandero.
How much is it?
It's $14,995.
Right.
Okay.
Here's $14,995.
Thanks.
Do you think it's that?
I think so.
I think there's a sector of the population
of all of this country, I think,
who probably of a certain age particularly
doesn't believe in unnecessary borrowing.
They're very financially sensible.
You live within your means.
A mortgage is one thing
because you hope that you're borrowing money
against an appreciating asset.
But you do not borrow money
against something that's going to lose value
because that's just silly.
You buy something you can afford.
It's just vulgar, isn't it?
Yeah, but I do think.
I'm saying this for context
before people in Wales kick my head in
that I spent a lot of time in North Wales
when I was a kid
because my dad grew up in Dogfly
and my mum had relatives from around there
and Balor and Barmouth
and all that sort of area.
So I spent a lot of time there
and have a lot of relatives from up there
and some of my dad's family lived down in Potolba
so I feel like I've spent enough time in Wales
to get a sense of this
and it's definitely...
I reckon that the dacha of any type
is the perfect modest Methodist Welsh car
and it is because of that.
Don't live beyond your means.
Why would you borrow £50,000?
That's outrageous.
You would spend £14,000 on a car
you can afford that seems to be built
to last you for a while.
I'm in total agreement of that
and on that subject
I'd like to just say that
my brother, Greg
I would say friend of this podcast
I mean he doesn't listen
but he's appeared on it
but he's...
brother of the podcast
Greg has messaged me this morning
in minor despair saying
Johnny can you help me
I've got to sell these two golfs
he said I've been absolutely overrun
I won't use the exact words that he's used
but people that are
clicking by the car on eBay
and they never turn up
and just general scammage
if anybody out there wants
a Mark IV Golf 1.9 TDI
which is frilly
but reliable
on the ax of the reg
and if anyone wants a Mark VI Golf
which is probably more rusty
than the Mark IV actually
1.6 petrol, FSI
FSI
FSI, get in touch
both the cars are around the 300 pound mark
so we are really not asking for a lot of money
I will forge a details to my brother
if you scam him he will hurt you
but if genuinely they both need
I think they both need work for the MOT
no, one of them's got an MOT
but his spare's a repair
and the other one would go through another MOT
but it hasn't currently got one
this is how glamorous we are
we go from Pebble Beach
Hispano Suizers to
not quite MOT Golfs
so there we go
I've lost track of your brother's Golf collection now
but anyway, yes
we might be tempting fate here
but if you want frilly 300 pound Golfs
drop us a line and we will forward
serious offers to
Johnny's brother
thank you please
we should wrap this up
before we go
I have three things to tell you
they are, first of all
Johnny is engaged in an unusual new project
to set up a whole
college
in which he will teach people
how to be the former lead singer
from Rillian and the working title
School of Fish
if that's not to your taste
then there is of course the late break show
lots of excellent videos on there
what's knocking around at the moment
he not quite barn find
a driveway find go out
which if you have a look at that
so Mark 1 Escort Mexico
that's been owned by the same chap
since it was a year old
and I used to work with
I'm good friends with
the guy whose dad
his mum and dad own that car
so I've known about that car for 20 years
and in fact he was the passenger
in the Dodge Viper
that I may or may not have
destructo en 2005
so that's one worth watching
and then
this weekend he says
there's a video that's going out
and I simply can't remember
what it is
but I think it'll be really good
I just can't remember
I just can't remember it
let's just leave it at that
but I put a lot of videos out
you can't expect me to remember everything
the second thing I wanted to mention
is that
we recently appeared
on the Waymo channel
they sit outside car events
and chat about the cars
that are going by
quite annoyed I didn't think of it because it's a really good format
well they invited us on again
at the end of festival
exceptional and that is now live on youtube
available as a podcast
and various bits and pieces on
instagram and all over death outels
so go watch that
we get annoyed
by a very fast motorcycle rider
don't we
that was annoying
and I think we talk a little bit too much
about grand designs
but for those of you who don't like
us talking too much about cars
go and check out our appearance on the Waymo channel
because we definitely get distracted there
and the third thing
I was going to
actually I'm going to pivot my final fact
just because we were talking about
Injury and the blockheads
and
the blockheads
very proficient musicians as you mentioned
actually played
a lot of
relax by Frankie Ghost of Hollywood
because producer Trevor Horn
wasn't happy with the musicianship
of the actual members of Frankie Ghost of Hollywood
they were
I think a lot of them are still live
the blockheads are great musicians
you should listen
there's a song for everyone with the Injury and the blockheads
but the very British 70s
so very
alright well that's quite enough
of all this
just stop it Richard
stop it
just stop it
we'll be back on Friday with an Ottersaw
answering your questions back on Monday
with another show
until then goodbye
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