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Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

Top Gear, Road Trips, 5th Gear, The Grand Tour, Leisure, Cars, Automotive, Improv, Comedy

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has been doing some traditional tillermanning. Also in this episode, leaving your own roof behind, how they make automatic transmission fluid, ETA shaving, entering a Premier Inn like a race winner, nice cloth seats in fancy cars, a surprisingly good Cupra, holiday golf cart incident, unusual hire cars, a listener’s tale of spotting an amazing X-Type, the rubbishness of the Golf R badge, terrible decals on expensive motorhomes, and buying a vehicle from a naturist.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith, I'm Richard Porter, and this is Smith Inc. for podcasts on which two
0:05.7	friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:09.9	Hey Rich, when was the last time that you left your roof behind?
0:17.1	Well, I'm glad you asked me that Johnny because I know the answer.
0:23.8	Yep.
0:24.8	It was the year 2000.
0:26.6	Was it?
0:27.6	And it wasn't my car.
0:30.4	It was Anne Corvette and we were in America filming.
0:34.4	Yes.
0:35.4	Somebody, for some reason, the roof panel on the Corvette was removed and left by the side
0:42.0	of the road.
0:43.0	We drove off filming.
0:46.8	Oh my gosh, I wasn't expecting to have a story, but this is brilliant.
0:52.2	And yeah, and then it was like, oh, shit, you know, obviously it wasn't our car.
0:55.5	G.M. had lent it to us for some filming for Old Top Gear in California.
1:00.3	And then, of course, the other thing is you go, where were we when we did that?
1:04.8	And then we couldn't bloody remember where we parked it when we'd taken the roof off.
1:09.8	You never, okay, just to figure it out.
1:12.4	Then we did get it back.
1:13.4	Oh, you did get it.
1:14.4	But it was a little bit of an awkward moment where it was like, uh-oh, where's the roof?
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