OTOSOT 90
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about whether old cars make you more attractive, a new car for ageing parents, cars with known faults and how long you tolerate them, and car movie scenes you’d like to recreate.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Richard Porter. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Johnny Smith. |
| 0:04.1 | And this is on the other side of things, |
| 0:05.8 | the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome again to some questions being answered. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm going to kick off... |
| 0:17.8 | Well, trying. |
| 0:18.6 | With a message from a listener in America. |
| 0:21.9 | This is someone called Bo, who signs off as Bo, age 21, Wisconsin, USA. |
| 0:28.7 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:29.9 | Hi, Bo. |
| 0:30.7 | He says, hello, you lovely pair of high lift ham shafts. |
| 0:35.8 | When I was of age to buy my first car, I was told by many people that buying a |
| 0:41.2 | cool, older car would attract girls. Following that's advice, I bought a red 1986 Pontiac Firebird. |
| 0:48.8 | Cool. |
| 0:49.1 | I drove through my high school years. |
| 0:51.4 | You would have looked like somebody from Stranger Things. I think that would have been called. Yes, maybe that's it. Well, that seems like that would have come back around that car. It's sort of not local pest anymore. It's more like, hey, look, cool. It was a bit world wrestling mania kind of look, wasn't it, with a singlet? Pit viper's in a singlet. I'm just trying to do the maths on this. So, Bo says he's 21 now. So, I mean, well, let's assume it's earlier the year. He hasn't had a birthday yet. So he was born in 2004. Yes. I'm going to guess. So high school years years When can you learn to drive in Wisconsin |
| 1:29.3 | Is it one of those states where you can have a driving license of 14 or something |
| 1:32.9 | I reckon it might be 16 but we'll we can check |
| 1:36.5 | Let's say 16 so he he bought |
| 1:40.4 | But you can't drink wheat lager until you're 21 rich |
| 1:43.1 | Just so you know |
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