Hairacio Pagani

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

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard admire the excellent locks of a supercar legend. Also in this episode, a strange rollercoaster name, a listener’s back pedal brake disaster, Raleigh Strika vs Grifter, sad theme park cars, RC cars in seaside towns, new info about the clown in a Bedford Rascal, the story of the original Dukes of Hazzard stunt car, an amazing RX-7 result, an excellent new book about secret Rovers, and a look at two excellent cars in the Pistonheads auctions.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:02.4	I'm Richard Porter.
0:03.6	And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:12.7	You know, Horatio Paghani?
0:15.3	Yes.
0:16.1	Have you ever actually met him?
0:18.5	Uh, no.
0:19.5	Kind of.
0:21.9	But no. I mean, it's... What do you, kind of, but no.
0:23.0	I mean, it's... What do you mean, kind of?
0:23.9	Like he was at the arrival when you were there?
0:25.8	I've said hello to him.
0:26.2	I've said hello, how he did it kind of thing, but haven't had a full chat.
0:30.7	Okay.
0:31.2	Because, uh, I think he speaks, he speaks English, but I don't think he's entirely always
0:37.4	comfortable. He prefers to speak in his native tongue or in Italian. Which is talking. No. Yeah. I'm just going to say no for the sake of it. I've not really met him. Have you? No, I haven't. But when we were at Goodwood the other week and we were doing lots of filming, I did see him from across the way.
0:55.0	And of course, Pagani had quite a presence there in the supercar worship area.
1:01.2	And I didn't tell you at the time because I thought it would create an earworm that would destroy your concentration.
1:09.5	But every time, every time I see,
1:14.2	every time I see a Pagani stand at a show or a couple of cars,
1:19.8	I want to sing his name to Neverending Story.
1:26.2	Oh, that would have destroyed my brain.
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