Smith and Sniff

Glasgow: The return

Hi gang,

In 2024 we put on a live show in Glasgow and it was one of our favourites to date. Great venue, great audience, only one slightly offensive impersonation of Jackie Stewart in front of actual Scottish people. So, almost exactly two years after that show, we're coming back.

Once again, the show will be at the Eastwood Theatre in Giffnock, and it's going to be on Wednesday 11 February 2026.

The tickets are being sold directly by the theatre and you c...

OTLOT goes back to the 90s

Hello you,

Before we tell the rest of the world we wanted to let you, our excellent Patrons, know about our next live show. And it's a return to Britain's most 90s city, Bristol.

We had an excellent time when we were there a couple of years ago, pretending not to have heard of the internet and raving about a new band called Oasis, so we're returning to the Tobacco Factory for another live event.

It's on Monday 15 December and, brilliantly, they've got a panto on in the sam...

Our next live show

After a summer of fun at Goodwood, Festival of the Unexceptional and PistonHeads' Annual Service, we're lurching towards winter with more On That Live Of Things shows, starting next month at Great Northern Classics in Derby.

It's on Wednesday 19 November starting at 7pm and, as ever, there will be a normal podcast recording followed by an OTOSOT session featuring questions from people in the room. There's a bar on site where you can buy drinks and snacks, plus the chance to say hi to us...

Podcast 344 - OTOSOT 67

In their Friday Q&A spin-off, Jonny and Richard answer questions about confusing other road users, phrases you can’t help saying while driving, albums that suit certain cars, a car project dilemma, and unexpected number plates in unusual places.

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Flute solo

Guys, guys, guys.

We're hoping to announce some new Smith and Sniff live show dates very soon but in the meantime if you'd like to hear just one of us talking bobbins on stage, I'm doing a one-off Evening With... event at the British Motor Museum next month.

I won't be completely solo because my interviewer for the night will be Paul Cowland out of the telly who will be asking about podcasting, writing, making music and, most of all, getting me to do something I've never tried b...

We're back in leeeafy London

Hi guys,

We come bearing news of our next live show (after the Morgan event this coming Wednesday). Yes, we're returning to leafy, leafy London and the splendid London Concours at the Honourable Artillery Company. It's a spiffing event and your Smith and Sniff ticket will get you through the gates to look at the sweet, sweet cars at any point during the day. That's why tickets for this OTLOT are more expensive than usual. As ever, you excellent Patrons get first dibs on the tickets befo...

Our next live show

Hi gang,

As mentioned last week, we're going back to the scene of our very first On That Live Of Things; the Morgan Experience Centre in Malvern, Worcestershire, for a live show on Wednesday 7 May.

The show will kick off at 7:30pm and go on until about 10. And, as an added bonus, if you buy a ticket you'll get a link to bag a place on a one hour factory tour for just 15 quid instead of the usual £32.50.

Live show tickets will go on sale on Monday but you, our excellent Pa...

(Not) show notes 277

Hi guys.

There didn’t seem to be much to illustrate this week since we were too useless to take pics of the cars we saw on the street, and there was nothing much to link to unless you really want to hear Robert Palmer’s terrible version of I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (in association with UB40). So instead we thought this was a good opportunity to ask you, our brilliant Patrons, what you’d like from Smith and Sniff in 2025. Anything you want us to do more of? Anything you’d like ...

Show notes 270

Hello again. In pictures this week, we start with a book cover depicting Compton Pauncefoot, the place not the made-up person. Then we have some Dacia Springs, Richard’s experiment with Spring trim removal, and Chris de Burgh with his strange backwards, trouser-pressed hair. Now some linkerings…

The Dacia Spring

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Guys, guys, guys, we're LIVE, LIVE, LIVE

EDIT: Sorry everyone, minor glitch, all tickets should be on sale now. 

Hello again.

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve recorded a podcast or two in front of a live audience but all that is about to change. We’ve booked in not one but THREE locations in which to make live pods over the next few months, starting with the Mini factory in Oxford on 28 November. After that, we’re returning to the Aston Workshop Car Barn in Beamish, County Durham where lo...

Show notes 222

This week in pics, we lead with C63 shenanigans at a Le Mans campsite and how that ended. Pics courtesy of listener (and pit lane heckler) James Proudfoot. Then we have Freddie Mercury making his leotard into a unitard, a black Boxster GTS 4.0 with gold wheels, and the new Bugatti Tourbillon. Sadly, we can’t find any evidence of that car insurance ad Jonny was talking about but here are some other links…

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Where are this week's podcast and show notes?

Hello you,

If you were expecting the latest podcast and accompanying show notes last night and nothing has shown up that’s probably because you’re still on the old Spowahtaaaaaah tier which no longer receives those updates. To see them from now on you’ll need to switch to the new Eagle Quest tier.

Sorry about this. With the crisp logistical skill for which Smith and Sniff isn’t known, we announced a Patreon price rise before we’d looked into how this could be done. And i...

Show notes 209

Hello and welcome to the late-running show notes for the latest podcast. Let’s not get bogged down in why they’re late when frankly it’s just a load of pics of the Eagle limo and then a brief diversion into some fancy but slightly one-end-heavy Danish cutlery. Ahem. Here are some links…

Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry

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Podcast 209 - Live from the limo

Jonny and Richard have collected the Eagle and are sitting in it as they speak. Also in this episode, washing horses, the campaign to get rid of beards, doing work experience with the Red Arrows, monocoque animals, interesting cars in Jonny’s neighbourhood, bleak Fenland houses, the demise of the guard’s van, a railway waiting room horror story, Brazilian trucks explained, ergonomic Danish cutlery, too many sunglasses being worn indoors in Top Gear, and the extremely varied stock of the s...

Show notes 208

Right then, what’s going on in the show notes this week? Well, in pictures we start with a slightly sweaty and over-excited Richard (and a Blue Steel-faced Jason Barlow) posing with Pet Shop Boys. Then we have Jonny’s lavish JDM Nissan Bluebird Sylphy nail care kit, an actual Nissan Bluebird Sylphy, and the cover for ridiculous Steven Seagal’s ridiculous first album. In other news we have the Cobus 3000 airside bus that Jonny finds quite sporty, a classic Traaaaaansit Dormobile, the sli...

Podcast 208 - Talking cars with Pet Shop Boys

Richard has met his musical heroes and learnt some surprising things. Also in this episode, Jonny’s JDM nail care kit, Kate Beckinsale’s barn finds, the world’s most ridiculous man, a listener almost gets in a fight because of this podcast, a sports bus, a word for camper van you never hear anymore, troubling news about SAABs for cricketers, Alfa makes a terrible mess of things, why the Tonale is like a mk4 Polo, and we have news about a second weekly Smith and Sniff show.

Show notes 207

Hello again. And what do we have in the show notes this week? Well, in pictures we start with the VW California borrowed by Jonny followed by the man himself cooking inside it and the small window through which, he would like to make clear, he did not relieve himself in the middle of the night. He only thought about it. Then we have the comically narrow-tracked 1980s Hymer motorhome he might settle for, a picture of a good old fashioned caravan jackknifing, in this case featuring a Rover 75, ...

Podcast 207 - The Eagle has Quested

As Patrons already know, Jonny and Richard have finally bought an official podcast car. Also in this episode, parts gloating, a few nights in a California, wanting an ‘80s motorhome, annoying chainsawing, more praise for the Alpine A110, not wanting to look seedy just because you have a camper van, CVT gearboxes sounded like out-of-tune men in churches, unlikely overtaking, the disappearance of the fallen over caravan, strange Brazilian trucks, Instagram ads for trousers, and Omega, Omega o...

Some news about Smith and Sniff

Guys, hey, guys, look. Here’s the deal;

There are changes coming to Smith and Sniff. The first is that, from 1 May, the minimum donation to this Patreon is going up to £2.49 a month. Blame fluctuations in the Flutesy 100. Or because we kept being told by actual grown ups (and some listeners) that the original price was too low and made us look rubbish.  

Where, you might ask, is the money going? Well, we can tell you one place it’s needed because… WE’VE BOUGHT THE EA...

Show notes 206

In pics this week we start with three flutes and a chaotic hotel room recording set-up followed by proof that Greg had his shoes on Richard’s bed. Then we have a very Smith and Sniff car spotted at the Members’ Meeting, the sweet, sweet Alpine A110, a Renault handbook wallet being sold as a clutch bag, the Toyota Carina E, and a disproportionate amount of pictures involving Ian Botham and SAABs. Finally, we have Picasso in a gullwing SL, the Toyota WiLL Vi, Paul Walker’s orange Supra, a...

Podcast 206 - Smith and Sniff and Greg

In a late night and quite boozy recording, Jonny and Richard are in a hotel room near Goodwood and joined by Greg James out of the Radio 1 breakfast show. Topics covered including driving to the Members’ Meeting in Alpine A110s, what Jonny has in common with James May, the importance of sleeping clean, a crazy wake-up routine involving Crockett’s Theme, Taylor Swift in an Audi A2, a Renault handbook wallet clutch bag, live press-ups. a Swiss-registered paddock scooter, a strange advert fo...

Show notes 205

Hello again and welcome to the show notes, on time again this week. Phew. In pics for this show we start, for no real reason, with just some of the Suzuki X90s spotted by Jonny while doing the Land’s End Trial including a cool TR7. That’s followed by some of the other things he saw on that event, the Citroen ZX Furio, that rogue Nissan Cube review, Donald Trump’s Diablo, the Scimitar SS1 at Bicester Scramble, and the badly iced Auris spotted by Richard. Now some linkerage…

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Podcast 205 - Mustang country

Jonny and Richard invent a new sub-genre of music. Also in this episode, Beyonce and a self-parking Lexus, topics only covered in country songs, annoying bings and beeps, more about touch screens from listeners who know their stuff, French car shows, acceptable accordions, being the Cathy Dennis of The Grand Tour, Citroen ZX trim levels, more on the Eagle Quest, Donald Trump’s Diablo, putting your name on the kick plates, the trials success of the Suzuki X90, and why the Licence To Drive po...

Show notes 204

Hello again, and welcome to the late-running show notes for the latest podcast. In pictures this week, we start of course with a Bova Futura coach. Small child balled up like a hedgehog, not pictured. Then we have the collapsed Discovery 3, as spotted by Richard near Bristol, the Eagle Quest limo that so haunts Smith and Sniff’s dreams, what Smith and Sniff reviews look like these days, and the DS 4 in case you don’t know what one of those looks like. Next, some pics of Jonny’s Picanto ...

Podcast 204 - Massive turbos, terrible screens, and falling out of a moving coach

Jonny and Richard canter through some excellent messages from listeners. Also in this episode, comedy tyre names, collapsed Discovery spotting with Chris Harris, more fixation about an Eagle Quest limousine, a review of ChatGPT in a DS 4, the real world economy of the Range Rover PHEV, Jonny goes trialling in a Kia Picanto, doing the Three Peaks Challenge in jeans, onion farmer weirdness, a puzzle about an ‘80s movie poster, a brief review of the new Roadhouse, and a yoghurt incident at a c...

Show notes 203

We start this week with a Porsche 944 Cargo by DP Motorsport, as not owned by Jonny apart from in his dreams. That’s followed by a rival 944 shooting brake but the company Richard was thinking of was Artz and not Baur. We move on to the one-off Boxster shooting brake made in the Netherlands, followed by the disappointing ID. Buzz, the handsome Peugeot 408, the possibly-inspired-by-other-cars Rivian R3X, and the AMC Eagle. Finally, Richard’s dog (almost crashing Suzuki Ignis, not pictured)...

Podcast 203 - The Malbec mechanic

Jonny and Richard come up with a new idea for a late night YouTube channel. Also in this episode, Jonny is annoyed to find his Porsche 944 shooting break is just a dream, a Boxster estate from the Netherlands, reviews of the VW ID. Buzz and Peugeot 408, two years with a Volkswagen e-Up, an American listener has an unusual question about Rovers, the Rivian R3X and what it might look like, browsing eagles for sale, discovering you have a dangerous dog, spotting a discarded belt, and Richard’s...

Show notes 202

Guys, guys, guys. Welcome to this week’s show notes. In pics, we start of course with a lorry from Bumble Hole Foods. Then we have Jonny’s Lemsip and loo roll recording set-up, the picture from social media of a Lime bike dumped in a canal, and the wrecked BX caused by a confused photographer in a brand new MX-5. Then we have the wonky wheelarched Maserati Shamal, followed by some of Gandini’s more successful designs, the Fiat X1/9, Lamborghini Espada, Renault Magnum and the horn-doored...

Podcast 202 - Liquid egg

A sighting of a funny company name on a lorry sends Jonny and Richard down a food industry rabbit hole. Also in this episode, stage 3 Lemsip, a dull story about a broken train, short journeys kill diesels, submersible drones and magnet trailers, RIP Marcello Gandini, the pointlessness of tank turning cars, Jonny’s running challenge, garaging worthless cars, an announcement about the Festival of the Unexceptional, spotting a manky Renault 12 in the wild, an algal Ford C-Max, Woollarding in J...

Patreon preview - new ending music

Hello gang. Richard here with a bit of Friday nonsense. I thought we needed some new ending music for the podcast and that, for no real reason, it should be a sort of medium-paced ballad-style song. I think it might have been because I’d heard Just Like Jesse James by Cher and/or watched that excellent Netflix documentary about the making of We Are The World. Anyway, this week I was desperately avoiding doing actual work and came up with this. Appearing soon in a podcast n...