Live from Bicester Heritage
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In front of a live audience in a massive hangar at Bicester Heritage, Jonny and Richard talk road signs, a revelation about no-name full suspension mountain bike guy, a note left on Jonny’s car, audience stories about note leaving, spotting Fiat Fullbacks, the sadness of the Fiat Doblo, getting to sit in a scale steam engine, stickers of another car on your car, a listener’s story about undercarriage damage during a test drive, people who’ve never driven an auto, people with wagon wheels and boats in the garden, another listener tells us about a handfree bathroom incident, car-based I have never game, the Rickman Ranger, a front-wheel-drive Countach, extreme reversing stance, almost tipping over, cars to commit crimes in, and surprising fans of the Opel Vectra.
Huge thanks to The Little Car Company for hosting this live recording, and for bringing down their excellent new Tamiya Wild One MAX.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Richard Porter, I'm Johnny Smith, and this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two |
| 0:38.1 | friends talk about cars and many other things, live. |
| 0:56.5 | Well now, listen guys, look, here's the situation, thanks so much for coming everybody in the room, |
| 1:02.7 | we're in a large echoey room, off of Bista Heritage, just off of the A, you don't know where |
| 1:10.6 | it is, 20 minus 20 dad points. You should know, there's bloody great AA signs outside, |
| 1:16.6 | telling you. Yes, I was going to say, if everyone didn't find it okay, then you shouldn't have |
| 1:21.9 | a driving license, because there are some really big signs outside, which was a shock to us, |
| 1:26.6 | except we did sort of know, because yesterday, a couple of car journalists, friends of ours, |
| 1:33.0 | were on a car launch somewhere in the Midlands, and they drove past here, and they'd already |
| 1:37.8 | put the signs out, and I suddenly got a voicemail from one of them going, what the fucking hell |
| 1:43.4 | is going on? Your stupid podcast has got road signs. Please don't steal them after this event. |
| 1:53.8 | No, because we want. Because we want at least two of them. |
| 1:58.2 | I'm serious. I told my wife about this morning, I said, we can explain, I said we've got the |
| 2:01.8 | call yesterday, and I checked with the little car company, people who've hosted us here very kindly, |
| 2:04.9 | and I said, they're definitely road signs, and then there was a pause, and I could see her brain |
| 2:11.1 | working, and then she went, don't come home with one. I was like, where would we put it? |
| 2:18.2 | Definitely coming home with one. The thing is, road signs are bigger than you think, aren't they? |
| 2:23.0 | They're way bigger. Because they have to be, because you're in a fast-moving car when you see |
| 2:27.6 | the road signs are massive. Oh god, they're like the elephants of the road. Yeah, they're huge. |
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