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Smith and Sniff

Two apologies and a nice Rancho

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

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

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Richard says sorry to his car (and Jonny). Plus, a really nice Talbot Matra Rancho for sale - actually, TWO Ranchos for sale - and an embarrassing development with Richard's new neighbour and her tidy old Corolla. Also in this episode; Fred Dibnah, traction engines, Get Carter, bad driving and a shirtless crusty in a mkII Cortina.

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and

0:36.4

Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and this week the

0:39.6

Tolbert Matra Rancho. I need to start this show with a couple of apologies.

0:50.7

The first one is, you know, last week I was talking about how my Land Rover Defender had wounded me when combined with a sprightly run and had knackered my left calf because it's heavy clutch clutch.

1:05.8

Clutch calf.

1:06.8

Which sounds like a kind of very small leather bag that a lady might carry to a formal event.

1:15.0

But yeah, in my case, just sort of agonizing.

1:17.5

So anyway, I've been stretching and rolling out the calf and just generally not not running looking after it and all felt fine,

1:24.7

went for a little run, no problems, so started just sort of going running again as and when.

1:30.0

And then yesterday morning went for a bit of a brisk early doors run beautiful morning

1:35.6

crisp cool air sun was shining it was lovely and um and my bloody calf went but

1:53.6

the other one, the right one, which leads me to think that it wasn't really related to my defender. It was related to being an old fucker who shouldn't be running about so much. Hang on a minute, are you apologizing publicly to your own car?

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