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Added 2023-10-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHi all. Here we are again with a few bits of extra shite to go with the latest podcast. In pics that means the BSA Ariel 3, including a star-packed promo picture and a weird vintage ad, followed by a shot of two Vincent Amandas. Now, some linkage...
That famous pencil sketch-y A-Ha video alluded to at the start of the podcast
And a rather excellent literal version of the same video
Jayne Middlemiss has been on Virgin Radio afternoons for a year now (also, she’s from Bedlington in Northumberland)
The story of the Vincent Amanda
The Ariel 3 on video. Check out the lean.
Jonny guests on The Fast And The Curious podcast
Driving to a rave (featuring hardcore ‘80s Fiat and classic BMW action)
1989 illegal rave (featuring a brief appearance from a Toyota Space Cruiser)
Jonny and Richard take a Late Brake Show walk around Rennspowaaatahhh
Comments
I wonder if Chris Goffey has been listening since 2020 when during the Prelude 2.2, yeah? video Rich introduced Chris Gothy @ 20:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVfe7BjqiLs
Nigel Hancock
2023-10-18 15:56:10 +0000 UTCThis is the promo video supplied with the MG presentation pack my dad got when he had his first of 3 Montego Turbos. Check out the stylish driving shoes. https://youtu.be/wzs3zA1Eqe0?si=OqrWLDjHJlbXq8VB Other delights in the presentation pack were an MG tie, ladies MG headscarf, MG watch where you could remove the strap and fit a small steel stand to the base, and probably some other MG tat. I think they also put a bunch of flowers in the back seat too for my mum (or maybe they were for my dad). I've still got the VHS tape.
Eddy555
2023-10-18 04:50:37 +0000 UTCAs Bruce Dickinson off of Iron Maiden is Rob Dickinson off of Singers cousin do we think there's any chance of a Singer 911 Eddie Study with an axle wielding skull air brushed on the bonnet of an immaculately restored 964?
Glenn Chalmers
2023-10-17 10:14:52 +0000 UTCNow that Jonny has run out of Iron Maiden live shows maybe he can give early Queen a chance. A good place to start is Queen 1974 such as Live at the Rainbow. If you want something that's bang up to date you can't go wrong with Japanese rock music. Try the Waggaki band's Homura - you won't be disappointed. Specifically: https://youtu.be/ponTbDDMYjw?si=kom-47xN8uRid13b and https://youtu.be/OaC6ZY0KYVc?si=sLS8ABqqy50vdm0t
Tom Lanigan
2023-10-17 03:47:51 +0000 UTCI went karting in Warrington for my stag do, which has a steep up and down ramp. I had kindly been given a spray tan beforehand (as we were in Liverpool) and as I went round the track the tan sweated down into my eyes and blinded me. I came down the ramp at speed, couldn’t see a thing and then smacked into the tyres at full pelt. It hurt. A lot.
MarkWilliams
2023-10-16 14:05:51 +0000 UTCHaving just listened to the Fast & Curious episode - good job on getting the Brut reference in, Jonny
Peter Norrish
2023-10-16 12:14:54 +0000 UTCThe end anecdote is fabulous and told, very much in the style of a surreal tale from the early 90s Chris Morris Radio 1 shows. If you've never heard them they're well worth digging out
Thomas Cowley
2023-10-16 08:22:11 +0000 UTChttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/1971-aquasonic-aqua-jet/ Find another ! (Apparently they built 8 and then the factory burned down.)
ben k
2023-10-16 01:14:55 +0000 UTCI’ll see your Vincent Armada and raise you an Aquasonics Aqua-Jet :
ben k
2023-10-16 01:13:43 +0000 UTCA-Ha is directly responsible for Norway going EV thanks to an EV-converted Fiat Panda called the Larel Will 202. It was basically a guerilla publicity campaign run with an environmentalist named Frederic Hauge, where they imported this thing into Norway and then would all drive around Oslo racking up unpaid road tolls until the Fiat was repossessed, then go buy it back at auction for next to nothing as no-one else wanted it. Norway's media covered the story regularly, because A-Ha was involved, and the government eventually caved and made EVs exempt from tolls - because who cares about odd little battery-powered Fiats? Then, when EVs started becoming more mainstream, avoiding Oslo's punishing road tolls became a huge benefit of buying a Nissan Leaf etc.
Brendan McAleer
2023-10-15 22:18:06 +0000 UTCAccording to his IG post, Theakston has got his Stag back. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx7JCbYtqUv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Steve Morton
2023-10-15 17:29:38 +0000 UTC
