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Smith and Sniff

On the run in a Focus RS

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Which is worse; bolting in a fast Ford or misusing traffic cones? Also in this episode, getting stopped in someone else's Peugeot 306 cabrio and an inconvenient eBay reminder for Juha Kankkunen. Plus, we answer some listeners' questions, leading to talk about the coolness of the Ford Capri, the world's smelliest Nissan Laurel, and memories of a phone call with LJK Setright.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

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0:42.0

I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and this week answer your questions. I promised you last week that I would tell you the stories about when I was chased by the police. Oh yeah!

0:44.0

After your bulldozer shenanigans last week,

0:48.0

because my stories aren't as good as yours.

0:49.0

One of them is, it's really stupid as well.

0:52.0

I hope there's some kind of statute of limitations on this and we're beyond it because the first one was

0:59.1

Me and a couple of mates and we were walking back from we'd probably been to the pub when we're like 17 and

1:04.6

someone set fire to a for sale board outside a house. What are those plastic?

1:11.7

They're like... Estate agent, yeah plastic and they burn like a

1:15.4

bastard. What, with it just with a lighter as people smoking?

1:19.5

Someone had a lighter on them and they set fire to an estate agents board and they go up like an

1:24.2

absolute bastard. And then there was the classic oi and nothing makes your heart race

1:31.2

like an oi from across the street. You know what I mean?

1:34.1

This is that kind of, uh-oh, so somebody's in a quiet suburban road in elderly edge, which is

1:39.3

a quite a fancy area near where I grew up and we legged it and I legged it

1:46.2

I can't remember why I would do this but rather than leg it down the street I

1:49.6

legged it into the garden of this house and down the side of the house and hid and then I could

1:58.4

hear somebody came out of the house with a garden I was hiding in and went to talk to the man who shouted

2:05.3

oi out on the street and I could hear them talking. I think I heard the word police mentioned and then sure

2:12.1

enough the police turned up.

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