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Smith and Sniff

Joy riding heavy plant machinery

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jonny tells an extraordinary story about why he once had to hide up a tree for seven hours. Plus, Commodore 64 versus BBC Micro Model B, city boys papping themselves in TVRs, a Passat GL5 that cost £45, the most popular cars for ravers, a Scirocco accident in Macclesfield, 911 battery trouble update and some unexpected plain clothes police cars.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:20.0

I'm Richard Porter and I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and

0:26.2

Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and sometimes raving.

0:38.0

Hey, I forgot to tell you this. I went down a bit of a wormhole with old computer games.

0:45.0

Yeah. Like 8 bit.

0:48.0

Ones I grew up within the 80s and maybe the early 90s.

0:52.0

And someone on because I made it I did a video for car perver involving

0:58.2

one of them and weirdly someone on Twitter went oh you you must remember the last v8 Commodore 64 game, I went what?

1:07.6

So yeah it was called the last v8 was clearly a rip off of Mad Max.

1:12.0

Oh, when you said last V8 Commodore, I thought immediately Holden, which I suppose is...

1:17.0

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but I'm gonna...

1:19.0

It's weird because the last V8 was actually the name of the game on a Commodore 64.

1:24.3

Hang on, did you have a Commodore 64 then?

1:27.3

You're damn right I have one.

1:28.4

Although I was quite late to the 64 game, a couple of my mates had them and I really longed for one and I didn't get one until I

1:36.4

I think I didn't get one until they were being phased out but I didn't care because I still to this day think it's

1:42.3

in fact I read somewhere I think it's the most successful home computer of all time

1:48.9

Yeah, again I went down another wormhole and someone in about had written a piece on it might have

1:56.1

been Jelopnik where they went into a garage to have like an emissions check and a brake check

2:02.4

on their car. And the garage back in 2016, 2017 was still

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