The Dodge Chanqez

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

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jonny recalls a car badge confusion. Also in this episode, a very old couple in a very advanced car, hypermilers’ salutes, washing a small car with a small bucket, the loss of foot baths from municipal swimming pools, being a good swimmer, an actual cobra head shifter, a remarkable tribute to Nigel Mansell, mystery third brake lights, an Elvis Mercedes, a very baggy Alfa shifter, things IKEA should sell, school run chic, Jonny’s car woes, and Richard’s brief review of the VW Multivan.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and Smith for a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:10.0	Let me talk to you about Daddy's Changquez.
0:15.0	So what?
0:19.0	I said, let me talk to you about Daddy's Changquez.
0:23.0	Doesn't make sense, does it?
0:25.0	Daddy's Changquez.
0:27.0	Daddy's Changquez.
0:29.0	Okay, right.
0:31.0	The thing I like about old cars, and I'm sure you will too is that a lot of the badges on the back were very scripty italics.
0:40.0	Take the first generation Allegro for example huge badge very curvy kind of
0:44.9	psychedelic yeah with a lower-case a confusingly yes it's a classic of the
0:50.9	genre it is a classic of the genre but didn't deem it important enough to give it a capital A.
0:56.0	But I...
0:58.0	It was the 70s. Everybody was on drugs.
1:01.0	Yeah. Well, there's a lot of of script in fact we could probably do a hit list of
1:05.7	our favorite scripty badges that's for another day. But the one that popped to mind was
1:10.3	the courtina with a very curly sea. Oh it does it has an amazing sea almost
1:15.4	like the sea from champion sports clothing which I used to draw on my my school
1:20.1	books because I was a complete prick. Anyway, but actually so curly it almost looks like a lowercase E, so you might mistakenly think the car was called the Iertina.
1:30.0	The Eartina.
1:32.0	Yes, it's true. Yes, sorry so. E Athena. So on the
1:37.6	Flying Butress C pillars, I suppose you call it on the Dodge,
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