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Smith and Sniff

Romain Grosjean met my jacket

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Richard lent Jonny a jacket, and Jonny used it to interview Romain Grosjean. Also in this episode, the joy of proper car brochures, the awfulness of British plates on American cars, the meaning of 'sherpa' mode on the Fiat 500e, and the madness of the original Toyota Previa. Plus, a very dodgy live stunt show and why this podcast needs a travelling studio built into a shabby old van.


Find Jonny's YouTube channel by searching The Late Brake Show.

Find Richard's new book by searching Boring Car Trivia on Amazon.



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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app.

0:26.7

I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and this is Smith and Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and this week Leyland

0:30.2

Sherpers. Did you ever look back and go, what did we do before the internet?

0:40.0

How did we completely waste time and our gosh catalogue?

0:44.8

Simple.

0:47.8

Well you've seen my scrapbook.

0:49.6

It's quite heartening though because actually my kids have had a

0:54.8

catalog from a toy store for a month or so which we gave them so we could say to them

1:01.3

look you know have a little look through there

1:03.0

is anything that you want to ask that is the Christmas present and it's amazing how

1:06.5

long they can spend browsing a catalog still I mean I love a high quality thick

1:11.5

stock color catalog I have to say demon tweet in fact the demon

1:16.0

tweaks catalogue came through the door day before they still do a catalogue they still do a

1:20.2

physical catalogue through the door and I was quite pleased about that.

1:23.3

Yeah, do you know I said last week that and this is not a plug but it's going to turn into one.

1:29.1

We were talking last week about my new book because I've got a new book out called Boring Car Trivia

1:34.3

volume 2 available on Amazon as a paperback or e-book but I said last week that I

1:39.6

abandoned a plan to make the cover I wanted the cover originally to look like an 80s car brochure.

1:45.6

One of those ones that was all of the range that Vauxhall and Ford and Austin Rover

1:50.1

used to do particularly and I couldn't make it work so I gave up but it did make me think after we've been

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