Accidentally kicking an Alpine A110 under the fridge
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jonny's been to see Gordon Murray and Richard has weird memories of trying to win a Porsche 924S. Plus, some lesser known facts about the GMA T.33, the kind of Terminator robot that does admin, the cost of servicing a Ford GT, and discovering where Weetabix comes from. Also in this episode, Britain's biggest Post-It note enthusiast, pre-selector gearboxes on buses, the fate of 5th Gear giveaway cars, people who say "pull the trigger", and what on earth is the matter with Sir Lord Alan Sugar?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
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| 0:30.6 | I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is Smith and Smith a podcast in which two |
| 0:38.0 | friends talk about cars and many other things. I was checking to Gordon Murray the other week, |
| 0:48.0 | which, yeah, I know, just thought I'd drop that in there. And I realised when we were filming, |
| 0:53.9 | I always felt like I could sort of say anything to him because he's quite quiet. |
| 1:00.0 | And focus, he does actually look at you and listen to you. And I used the term grower not shower |
| 1:05.7 | with him. And I wasn't sure whether it was appropriate. In the context that it might normally be |
| 1:12.9 | used or another one. Well, in the context of that, I was, I was stood next to his new car. |
| 1:17.7 | Richard's been announced, yes. He had a T33 and I, yeah, I was stood next to it. Having had a, |
| 1:24.8 | probably had half an hour looking at it before he walked in. And I, I referred to his cars, |
| 1:31.2 | in my opinion, this one, the T50 and also the McLaren F1, has been almost growers not showers. |
| 1:42.8 | In the super car, in the super car realm. Well, so we're like a bright orange Lamborghini |
| 1:54.8 | would be a shower. It would be an absolute sort of, you know, Vainey Conqueror. |
| 2:00.5 | And quite honestly, it could have a two-litre Pinto and the one-wheel drive. But it sort of wouldn't |
| 2:08.1 | matter for a lot of people to buy them as long as it will make a lot of noise while going through |
| 2:13.6 | the city centre of London or Dubai or somehow. Yeah, it's your ultimate male peacock with the |
| 2:20.8 | fan of feathers, shim doing that shimmy, the turn on the shimmy. You do the turn on the shimmy, |
| 2:24.8 | don't you? Yeah. It's given everywhere in the first gear. Just for all the noise, no, he's, |
| 2:32.8 | the person's bought it was probably not interested in how fast it can go. It's just all about the rinse, |
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