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Podcast 158 - Drift car or donkey?

Jonny has been served some unusual Instagram content and Richard has seen his local no-name mountain bike guy. Also in this episode, reaction to last week’s Miami Vice chat, Don Johnson goes Woollarding, the Skoda cake we forgot, how to say Rost...

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OTLOT6 - Smith and Sniff live in London

Hello you.

Yes, as darkly hinted on social media, the next Smith and Sniff live recording is going to be in London. Specifically, it's going to be during the London Concours event which takes place at the Honourable Artillery Company in the ...

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Show notes 157

Hello again. This week in pictures we start with some classic Miami Vice fashions then move on to a classic BBC radio car, a Rolls-Royce Camargue (Jonny’s sacrilegious LS swap, not pictured), a Dutch police 1st gen Touareg on weird wheels, that ...

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Podcast 157 - Catching up on Miami Vice

Just four decades late, Jonny has been watching a top American TV show. Also in this episode, a shameless plug for the next Smith and Sniff live show, bad smoking on television, going to the Sunday Scramble in a radio car, how your memory works (o...

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Show notes 156

What have we got in the show notes this week? Well, we start with Jonny looking furtive in a Bentley for reasons that will become clear. Then we have the Biro and Canta small cars, as seen by Jonny in Amsterdam. After that, the Maturo Stradale res...

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Podcast 156 - Narrow Dutch cars and the Strada Abarth

Jonny has spotted something local and peculiar in the Netherlands and Richard has remembered a sporty Fiat from the ‘80s. Also in this episode, the world’s finite supply of Biros, car tipping, Panda 100HP love, finding yourself on the Harry Me...

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OTLOT5 - Smith and Sniff live in Bristol

Hello lovely Patrons,

We come bearing good news. The next Smith and Sniff live recording is happening next month in our favourite ‘90s city, Bristol. Here are the headlines;

Date: Friday 19 May

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Show notes 155

In pictures this week we start with Jonny sporting a textbook curtain hairstyle in the ‘90s. The other kid on the motorbike is his German exchange partner. Note the purple Champion trackie bottoms. Then we have a gunty 1 Series, the curvy sill o...

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Podcast 155 - A series of powerful magnets

Jonny explains how his dad retrieved a broken Avenger key. Also in this episode, drunk Olympics, the gunty cat 1 Series, scraping floorpans, scratching matt paint, the return of the boot cut, alternative superhero Nigel Mansilk, very thin facial h...

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Show notes 154

Jonny's still in shock from his visit to the autojumble so there aren't proper show notes this week, just the few pictures he took during his weird day out in a damp field. Enjoy. 

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Podcast 154 - Lord of the autojumble

Jonny has been to a very special car event and, oh goodness, he has seen some things. Features inexplicable statues, a grand wizard, a box of marionettes, anaphylactic Paul Young, red meat ghosting, miniature steam engines, retro grumble mags, a g...

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Show notes 153

Hello again. Quite a car-y episode this week. Sorry about that. So, in pictures we have the new Lamborghini Revlon or whatever it’s called, a Matchbox Superfast Ferrari, the excellent Triumph 2000 mk2, an Esso tiger T-shirt, the SEAT Toledo V5, ...

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Podcast 153 - Struggling to care about a new Lamborghini

Richard isn't bothered about the Aventador replacement and Jonny has been hanging out with Gordon Murray. Also in this episode, collecting Rileys on your deathbed, unexpectedly strong beer in Wagamama, Gloria Estefan’s car sounds, starting work ...

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Show notes 152

Hello again. Right then, what’s going on this week? Well, in pictures we have the amazing Mike Brewcelee ornament, including the hands of Mike himself. Then we have a couple of Richard’s related work-avoiding idiotic Photoshops, Jonny driving ...

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Podcast 152 - Mike Brewerce Lee

Jonny has been sent a statue of Bruce Lee and forwarded it straight to the star of Wheeler Dealers. Also in this episode, driving the Porsche 911 Dakar while feeling ill, busting open an ibuprofen scam, the wonders of Alcantara, the amazing mpg of...

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Podcast 151 bonus video

Since Patreon demands separate posts for videos, here's a little bonus featuring the unrealistically fast car showroom turntable at Merrivale model village. 

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Show notes 151

Hello again. Here be some more show notes. In pics we start with Jonny at a model village. Look at his happy little face. Then we have the Algal Ranger, the infamous Tuxedo Princess in Newcastle, an Hyundai Equus being more interesting than a Veyr...

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Podcast 151 - Aggressively driven Ford STs

Jonny has been car spotting in a dismal British seaside town. Also in this episode, 1920s motorcycle speed record stance, an algae-covered Ford Ranger, weak car game at a model village, turntable disaster in a floating nightclub, Veyron versus Hyu...

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Show notes 150

This week we start with pics of the BMW M3 Touring and Jaguar F-Pace SVR Edition 1988. Then we have a typical cover of Custom Car magazine from the ‘70s, the muscular Merc 500E, and the abandoned Porsche 989 project from 1991. Now, some links…...

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Podcast 150 - Sporks: M3 Touring v F-Pace SVR

Jonny and Richard have been driving two fast, practical and slightly irrelevant cars. Also in this episode, having to use the facilities in a small independent garage, BMW selling xDrive to people who don’t need it, a ‘90s smoking horse, news ...

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Show notes 149

Right then, in pictures this week we have the erroneous mk3 Granada from The Gold, followed by bonus it’s-too-early-for-the-facelift Orion action. Then we have the influencer Zeus and more from Stellantis Instagram hob-nobber Olivier Francois fe...

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Podcast 149 - The cars of The Gold

Richard has been suffering MOT day nerves while Jonny’s experienced a frost-damaged hose humiliation. Also in this episode, what’s wrong with the cars in BBC true crime drama The Gold, the extreme shouting at hand car washes, a shady car park ...

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Show notes 148

Hello again. Sorry about the lack of show notes last week. There wasn’t much to share we didn’t do one. But now we’re back with, in order, Jonny’s tortoises trying some post-hibernation getting it on, the Merc W126 wheels Richard was think...

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Podcast 148 - Using cruise control in reverse

Jonny and Richard receive news from a listener who has been experimenting on their behalf. Also in this episode, saucy tortoises, intense protein bars, fantasy scenarios involving Mercedes W126s in 1980s Surrey, elaborate graphic equalisers, Pierc...

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Podcast 147 - Long distance reversing

In the second show recorded live at Lotus, Jonny and Richard answer questions from the audience. Topics covered include the size of their hands, how much Jonny’s spent on his Allegro, podcast quality control, the confusing ID.3 range, air-con ag...

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Show notes 146

This week in pictures we have some shots taken during the live podcast recording followed by Jonny and Richard doing some trackwork in both an Emira and inappropriately warm jackets. Then there’s those new Dyson dryers, the bit of the Ineos Gren...

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Podcast 146 - Live from Lotus

Jonny and Richard bring their meandering, asinine nonsense to the swanky Brand Centre at the Lotus factory in Norfolk. 

Topics covered include the Lotus Emira, a strange smelling friend, developments in hand dryers, the Ineos Grenadier,...

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Show notes 145

Hello again lovely Patrons. This week we start our pictures with that Hyundai promo CD owned by listener Tom, then listener James’s weird-spec Daihatsu Charade (including, in the last pic, its fate). Then we have that freaky Carlton hearse pick-...

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Podcast 145 - It's your letters

In this week’s show Jonny and Richard guiltily attempt to get through their massive backlog of listeners’ messages. Topics covered include a retro Hyundai promotional CD, a strangely specced Daihatsu Charade, a weirdly named car website, the s...

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Show notes 144

We start this week with pics of the Wells Vertiginous followed by Richard’s hasty Photoshop of the same car on steelies. Then we have some American shopping mall airbrushing, Gordon Murray’s Alfaholics Junior Zagato, Michelin floor mats, that ...

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