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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

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about covering cars, a fun car for a driving instructor, best auction buys, and what to buy if you want a Ford future classic. Plus, a listener tries to give away his Jag X-Type.

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0:00.0	I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.
0:12.8	Before we start answering questions this week, I wanted to just read out an email before I forget, because it's from a listener called Neil, who refers to us
0:25.4	as an absolute duplet of untrouzzed fleshy meat cylindricals.
0:30.0	Thanks, Neil.
0:31.0	That's awful.
0:32.1	But this is not a question, but I just wanted to read it out before it gets lost into the massive
0:36.7	snippet-mon-smith inbox.
0:39.0	Neil says, I've got a jag X-type spout, which is chassis number 502, an ex-coventry factory
0:45.1	press car, and the oldest one left in the whole wide world, except for chassis number one,
0:52.4	which is in the Gaden Museum next to an Allegro.
0:55.2	It's a true early barn find car just without the barn part.
0:59.3	It's on an original reg.
1:00.6	2001, genuine Y reg.
1:02.9	Find another.
1:04.0	Genuine Y.
1:04.7	I don't want it.
1:06.0	All right.
1:06.7	Okay.
1:07.4	I love that.
1:08.0	That's a statement.
1:08.8	Neil says, I don't want it.
1:10.5	It has its usual problems. Both sills, red paint issues and now, alas, the ECU is fried.
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