I'm Johnny Smith. I'm Richard Porter. This is Smith & Siff, a podcast in which two friends

talk about cars and many, many other things. I've never told you the story about the top

secret genes. Have I? I realize this is a sorority. I thought of all the stupid stories that

we've regaled on this cast and on video. I don't think I've ever brought up the top secret

genes. This is relevant to cars, just so you know. Oh it is, okay. This is the first

or top secret, is top secret a brand or were they genes that were classified? No, this

is a brand and this is back to Hux back to my max power days, max power magazine. So let's

set the scene. Somebody features or the mag features some big Japanese tuning cars because

they're in vogue at that time, well they still are, but you know this was the fast and

post-fast and furious too, I think, when things were massive around big pads, super

stuff like that. They'd gone to Japan, one a couple of members of the staff and featured

some of the tuning house cars and one of the tuning houses in Japan has a lot of list

as we'll probably know, it's called top secret and they were synonymous with doing midnight

club style, kind of illegal street racing and top secret actually brought over the Supra

to the UK and did 200 on the A1, which is irresponsible. Yes, I remember that. And he got

supported, Smoky, what was he called? Smoky Robinson, but it wasn't. And the Miracles.

Yeah, so you can imagine Smoky Robinson of the Miracles in some really fucking hair raising

900 horse super, that's twitchy AF. They're trying to sing a song to the radio. The thing

is stepping out everywhere. They're trying to catch it. The tears of a clown, that is

the tears. That is the tears of a clown. The tears of my trousers caused by horrible incident

on the A1. So top secret, after this, after they did all these shoots and stuff for the

mag, they came back. And a couple of the, I think the cover car was a top secret skyline.

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