I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith, and this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two

friends talk about cars and further intel on Char Day.

Do you know what? I went from being in absolute bliss, relaxed bliss, to a reasonable amount

of alarm, very quickly, day before yesterday. I was in London for the first time in a very

long time. I had to go to a meeting and I thought I'll walk. It was like two mile walk and it was

quite a nice day and it just felt really good. London was pleasurably quiet, lots of electric cars

and not not not very many people, but all of this sort of early summer, slight euphoria was

slightly it shook it shook me a bit. I saw a triumph stag coming the other way

and the top was down and the person was wearing sunglasses, but I could tell they were driving

really quickly, like round tight corners and I thought I know what's happening. They can't

afford to slow down because it's going to overheat. It's possibly one of the most sort of stressful

but we're trying to look cool because we're in a classic and it's British and we're in London.

But at the same time, I think there was an amount of alarm going on under the surface of like

if we get caught in any traffic, the fact that the rad can't call the engine properly,

that the fan doesn't really work effectively. There's a Ken Lo in a box in his garage.

But he's cursing now, he's mentally picturing it. I'm assuming it's a man. I always assume it's

a man for some reason when there's a classic car, a mishap, I just think it was. It was a man

and he was on his own, but he looked like I think he had some flowers on the passenger seat,

so he almost looked like he was in a music video. Wow, an 80s music video.

Yeah, could be. You know, that's funny because last, well we came before last, I saw somebody in a

stag with the top down and they were going quite briskly around a turning writer, a big junction

and then gave it some beans. And it sounded bloody great. They do sound great.

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