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Smith and Sniff

Playing snooker with a tram

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard have discovered another amazing world championship. Also in this episode, the cars of Scooter, German pronunciation help, a windscreen fitting contest, Bluetooth smoking, a knob-steer hero, hedgehog v tortoise, sightings at the National Motor Museum of Australia, a new car TV show featuring a beloved singer, a curry-fuelled trip to the kart track and bracelets for Land Rovers. 

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0:00.0

I'm Johnnie Smith, I'm Richard Porter, and this is Smith and Sniff a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.

0:09.0

Didn't think I was going to start this here podcast with an apology but I'm going to

0:17.6

send an apology out Rich to the Dance Music producer scooter.

0:26.3

Ah, yeah, I feel like I feel like I really ought to say sorry

0:32.4

because I'm not by the way I'm not saying

0:35.3

sorry for his music because it's still irritating and shit but we had a letter from a chap called Dylan, Dylan Malkin.

0:48.1

Hello, SSGs.

0:50.3

I couldn't help but chuckle over the latest podcast about Johnny's mention of early

0:53.7

naughty's Euro dance band Scooter. I felt a piece of useless trivia may add to your

1:00.2

discussion as the lead singer a German who goes by the name of

1:03.8

HP Baxter with two X's is is quite the Helmsman it seems in the music video

1:11.0

for one which is O and E he is driving a 1973 Jag E type V 12 and he also

1:20.5

drives around in a 1961 Jag Mark 2 and he's also got a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud 3, Cabrio.

1:28.0

So he's a he's a British car enthusiast, it seems. Well I was similarly tipped off about this by one of

1:37.5

our patrons Marcus who said dear Johnny and Richard I had to drop you a line after hearing your

1:43.2

chat about scooter in the latest episode because you'll love this

1:47.0

HP Baxter brackets yes out of off of Germany and scooter has a car collection that is an absolute roller coaster of old money Britishness.

1:57.0

Let's start with the piece of the resistance, a Land Rover Defender 110 in the same bronze green as Prince Philip's funeral wagon.

2:05.2

What? Yeah, when backs to saw it online, he naturally had to slap down 94,500 euros. Very specific. It's a former fire truck from South Tyrol, V8 engine and all that, and he's

2:19.1

had it kitted out with a Cherrywood bar in the back, perfect for a post-Rave g and tea.

2:24.4

Oh wow, yeah, Yeagermeister, surely.

2:28.3

Well, yes, exactly a few of those. Marcus goes on to say his first car was a VW Beetle.

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