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Also in this episode, news of an American live show, Richard has bought a bicycle, Jonny gets taunted by EV warning sounds, imagining Christian von Koenigsegg with hair, fun times at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, a deep dive into the complicated camouflage used to conceal the new Jag, an evening at the MG Zed cars 25th anniversary event, and another cracking pick from the classifieds at Car & Classic. For early, ad-free episodes and extra content go to patreon.com/smithandsniffTo buy merch and tickets to live shows go to smithandsniff.comFOTU info here: https://www.hagerty.co.uk/official-events/hagerty-festival-of-the-unexceptional/ Smoking Tire live show tickets here: https://improv.com/irvine/event/the+smoking+tire+live+feat.+smith+and+sniff+with+matt+farah%2C+zack+klapman%2C+richard+porter%2C+and+jonny+smith/14213624/This episode is sponsored by Car & Classic https://candc.li/uc1yqz This episode is sponsored by Heatable. Use codes SSG150 or SSG300 to get up to £300 off https://short.do/ByX2-Y  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information."},"annotations":[{"id":504693,"startTime":1085.7,"endTime":1091.6,"type":"term","title":"pop up lamps","url":"/glossary/pop-up-headlights","quote":"So yes it is pop up lamps.\nThose sort of slightly not squared off but a little bit squared off big arch extensions.","canonicalId":"term:pop-up-lamps","priority":0.35,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Pop-up lamps are headlights that are hidden behind the front bodywork and then lift up when you turn them on. They were popular on many 1970s–1990s sports cars because they let designers keep a cleaner, lower front profile when the lights are off.","simplifiedExplanation":"“Pop-up lamps” are headlights that flip up from the car’s front when you turn them on. 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