Jonny and Richard discuss the recent news about a well-known car show. Also in this episode, accidentally offending Angela Rippon, going to a drum and bass night in Bristol, a surprisingly boozy school quiz, ULEZ Miserables, the heydays of telly and motorshows, a terribly vandalised Jag, what people put in those new Defender side boxes, mysteriously damaged road signs, an interesting sight in a supermarket car park, weird-looking Land Cruisers, and getting Madonna to guest on The Late Brake S...
2023-11-26 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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In pictures this week we start with the terribly vandalised Jag S-Type sent to us by many listeners. Last we looked, it’s on Facebook Marketplace and still not sold, amazingly. The description says it ‘drives spot on’. Then we have the ‘Jimny XL’ and an official Land Rover picture showing what to put in your side box. Plates, a small towel and a cheese grater? Finally, the ‘test mule’ spec short-whhhheeeelbase Land Cruiser. Now some links…
2023-11-26 17:57:47 +0000 UTC
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In pics this week we start with the actual scene of the ram raid crime, as described by Jonny in the podcast. Then we have Stephen King’s face, Jonny’s new specs, the all-you-need Skoda Octavia vRS estate, a Volvo 240 GLT in red, a Class 70 locomotive that got dropped and bent, and an example of the kind of train ferry Jonny and Richard didn’t know about, somehow. Now, some links…
2023-11-19 18:01:02 +0000 UTC
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There’s been goings on in Jonny’s neighbourhood. Also in this episode, the weird face and musical taste of Stephen King, Mike Knight out of Knight Rider versus Mike The Knight, more on people with two of the same car, the trials of choosing new glasses, kids on lathes, why the Skoda Octavia vRS might be all you ever need, an update on Richard’s constantly broken Panda, slightly wanting a Volvo 240 when you should want a Mercedes W123, train news update, putting an auto into neutral at t...
2023-11-19 18:00:15 +0000 UTC
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In pics this week we start with a nice photo of an Intercity 125 / HST / Class 43 train in classic livery (for reasons that will become clearer when you hear the podcast). Then we have some shots of these trains being loaded on a boat, sadly not by the method Jonny suggested. Next we have that extraordinary Prelude shifter sent in by several listeners, a very neat mk1 SEAT Ibiza, the Honda Jazz Crosstar complete with large print touchscreen, and a Pendolino / Class 390 train which doesn’t l...
2023-11-12 18:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard discover something interesting about a beloved British icon. Also in this episode, London to Brighton, running machine mishaps, a very chodey shifter in a Prelude, the fate of Maureen’s Lada, SEAT Ibiza System Porsche, test driving cars, a Volvo EX30 recap, where to put shopping, where Tiff Needell puts shopping, opinions on head-up displays, the Honda Jazz Crosstar, trains on boats, Remy Julienne films for Fiat, the new Honda Motocompacto, and an amazing story from the Na...
2023-11-12 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Sorry for the lateness of the show notes this week. We were busy ringing laser suppliers ahead of our live show at Stellantis. Anyway, here we are. In pics we have the Granada used in the movie version of the Shergar story (so it might not be accurate) followed by the floating head Honda FR-V pic that always reduced James May to hysterics, and the incredible interior of the Lamborghini Espada VIP by Bertone. Now some links…
2023-11-06 10:31:23 +0000 UTC
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Jonny has been learning about how a large Ford was involved in the kidnap of a famous race horse. Also in this episode, people in 1970s and ‘80s TV shows clinging to roll bars, untrustworthy clutch control, Richard being a silly boy in London, sitting very still listening to Sting, bump starting a car in the middle of the night, Puff Daddy’s inexplicable motorbike accident, the demise of the OAP travel sweet, cars with three abreast seating in the front, the Honda FR-V and a bizarre publi...
2023-11-05 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello Patrons!
Yes, On That Live Of Things is back. Specifically, it’s back next month at the UK headquarters of car maker and low countries techno provider, Stellantis. Here are the headlines;
When: Thursday 7 December at 6:30pm
Where: Stellantis HQ in Coventry
What will happen: An hour-long podcast recording, a half hour break, then another hour or so of answering audience questions
Tickets go on general sale...
2023-11-03 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Well goodness me, what a lot of pictures we have this week. We start, of course, with the Honda Preluuuuude concept, followed by the car Richard says it resembles. Then we have a Devonian surf Polo and a strange aftermarket Panda knob followed by a whole load of easily mis-read car badges, as suggested by listeners. These include Jord, Jurbo, Zudiuc, Fueop, Lauren’s Clarinet (you’ll have to hear the podcast to understand that), JO7, Queque, Kov, the BMW EW, and an easily read but over-bad...
2023-10-29 18:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Exciting news from Japan as Honda threatens to bring back a Smith and Sniff legend. Also in this episode, the real surfers’ cars of Devon, the most West Country car, growing up in narrow lanes, being a museum guy, the best word to say in a Liverpudlian accent, retro gaming at laser tag basically in Nottingham, horse crabbing and old Saxos, listeners share their favourite mis-read car badges, and a round up of cars at the Tokyo show including the smooth new Mazda Iconic SP.
2023-10-29 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello, hello. It’s the shows notes again. This week in pics we kick off with the Chanqez badge, followed by curly badges for the Allegro and Cortina (eortina?). Then we have the cobra head shifter and the homemade bust of ‘Nigel Mansell’. Both are such exquisite pieces. Then we have the Elvis Mercedes, the very baggy Alfa shifter, the Volvo dealer sticker, the E51 Elgrand, the VW Multivan and Richard working in it, and ludicrously moustached man Stakka Bo. This will all make sense when ...
2023-10-22 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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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.
2023-10-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi 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
2023-10-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard stumble upon one of the British bike industry’s less good ideas. Also in this episode, the intimidating noise of scramblers, a thief’s favourite weather conditions, gold lame wearing crim disco band Rain, Fog and Wind, factory jacks and burly lads, Jamie Theakston’s stolen Stag, the whereabouts of Jayne Middlemiss, the Vincent Amanda, going karting after a trans-Atlantic flight, stag do kart crashes, a listener’s amazing stories about raves and a plucky Renault, and ...
2023-10-15 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello. We’ve shambled back from the US, forgotten to upload any pics for last week’s show (mainly because we had so many and are still going through them) but have somehow pulled together some shite for this week’s late-running podcast. We start with the fantastic Cali-spec sun faded Boxster, followed by Jonny posing with the crab-sized croissant (with pound coin for scale) and, later, the sweet Prelude spotted in Monterey. Then we have a dickhead gull, a soggy arsed Toyota Solara cabri...
2023-10-08 18:45:12 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard are in a hotel room in California which they should have left an hour ago. Topics covered include big American coffees, a real-life ghetto Boxster sighting, taking the Porsche methadone, seeing a sweet, sweet Prelude, the front licence plate laws of US states, nocturnal pressure washing, not liking gulls, American legal driving ages, the glories of a Porsche paint to sample swatch pack, Jonny’s sudden need for OTSOT man, central locking shenanigans, an ill-fated Top Gear r...
2023-10-08 18:04:55 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard are in Northern California for Rennsport Reunion 7, a Porsche festival at the Laguna Seca track. Featuring lots of nice cars and special guests Elana Scherr, Jonathan Gitlin, Jonny Lieberman, Tom Ford, Mike Musto and Andrew Frankel.
The show notes will appear later this week, once we've got our photos back from Boots.
2023-10-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, and we start this week with a picture of Captain Tolley’s Creeping Crack Cure. Of course. Then we have a classic example of grey plastic misery spec in a Daewoo Chevy, a boastfully advertised Matiz, a reminder of the faux-Caddy Magentis and its cobra head, and the ad for an atomatic example. Finally, there’s the subtitle for Walter Rural and a mysteriously snorkelled airport vehicle spotted by Jonny. Not much in the way of links this week but, as if to prove that we didn’t ...
2023-09-24 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Jonny needs to fix his leaking Hondas. Also in this episode, drift-spec plane landings, unusual airline seat arrangements, Branson’s printed boarding pass, a celebrity spot at Santa Pod, sleeping in a Honda Element, terrible Chevrolets, a slightly boastful Daewoo Matiz being sold from a neat house, Richard’s ongoing Panda woes, the rare Kia Magentis atomatic, a night time roundabout incident, the problem with the Kia EV6 GT, motorway balloon chaos, very dusty van interiors, and airport ve...
2023-09-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang and welcome to the late-running show notes for this week’s podcast. And what have we got here? Well, in pics it’s He-Man and his 1960s lady’s hair, along with the quite-similar hairstyle of Velma from Scooby Doo. Then we have He-Man’s weird mate, Mansell-at-Arms, oddly muscular yet skeletal Skeletor, a couple of Jonny’s photos from a weekend at Santa Pod, and the infamous Brexit MG TF (courtesy of listener Tim Dowdall). Then we have Calvin Harris and Sam Smith with their ...
2023-09-18 09:36:08 +0000 UTC
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Jonny has had to cause to reflect on the life of He-Man. Also in this episode, misunderstanding the meaning of cosplay, a bad day to be wearing tweed, the drag racing phenomenon of Podface, replicas racing at the Revival, Steven Seagal fighting from a chair, Bryan Ferry having a nice sit down, Roger Moore running up the Eiffel Tower, a licence to kilt, Calvin Harris and a sweet Prelude 2.2, some eye-opening uses for Facebook Marketplace, Louis Theroux’s erroneous Fiesta RS Turbo, and being ...
2023-09-17 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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In pics this week we have the agreeably chunky VW ID. GTI concept, followed by some ruined Jags courtesy of listeners Iwan Jones, Alex Birse and Steven Kipping. Then we have Jonny’s tap-based trouser incident, the way Miami Vice subtitles incidental music, the Toyota Century SUV and its lookalike from National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Hyundai’s restomod Grandeur concept. We end, of course, on the Simpsons meme that perhaps sums up this episode. Now, some linkage…
2023-09-10 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard get a few things off their chests. Topics covered include a bizarre MG TF, Jag vandalism news, the best bit of the Ford S-Max, tap peril, strange banger racers, jumping a 1910s cars, French pronunciations in American, the VW ID. GTI concept, synthetic fuels, six annoying things about the Abarth 500e, strange subtitles, moving the entire podcast to Miami, the worst ever guest on Hot Ones, canal boating with DJ Khalid, a British donk, and the Toyota Century SUV.
2023-09-10 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello you. In pics this week we start with Jonny and Richard in the luggzhury Hagerty treehouse meeting room just after recording this podcast in a pair of excellent T-shirts. Then we move on to a man in a ‘90s buznuz suit, the excellent Leyland Motorsport logo, and some of the excellent cars Jonny spotted and mentions in the show. Finally, we have a pair of Prelloods and Bob’s on board thermometer. Now, some links…
2023-09-03 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard are at Bicester Heritage for RADwood. Topics covered in this episode include buying a cheap Hammond organ, Richard being one of the judges in the Hot Wheels Legends competition, standing behind Terry Wogan, Honda NSXs and Ayrton Senna’s Algarve yachting-style slip-ons, a technical latrine, the shocking state of cubicle doors in American bathrooms, Jonny hanging out with Tavarish, the elusive brown Audi A2 of Bath/Bath, a strangely named cottage near Silverstone, being let ...
2023-09-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello again. Want some pictures and links to go with your weekly dose of verbal slurry? Oh okay then. In pics we start with some of the amazing items from the big Mansell ock-shun, as discussed in the podcast. Then we have the haunted Multivan with Jonny using it as a studio, the bull bollocks styling of the BMW M2, Liam Neeson in Miami Vice, and new shots of the amazing Satanist Jaguar XJ. And from the links department…
2023-08-27 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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A former F1 champion is selling some amazing things. Also in this episode, a haunted VW T7 Multivan, a Lexus with a fault, a brief review of the ID.Buzz van, why the new BMW M2 is like a set of animal balls, Liam Neeson in Miami Vice, a wild horse Bedford Rascal at Mansell’s karting centre, more horribly mistreated Jaguars, a barn find dog incident, the mysterious Gibbons method, a Hero Honda update, vigilante plumbing, and Greg James out of Radio 1 sends us his Florence Welsh impersonation...
2023-08-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello again. In pictures this week, we start with a stock shot from Longleat showing two of their Land Rovers (and also some animals of some sort) followed by a packed beach on the Gower and the idyllic cottage with a Volvo XC70 outside it. XJ Cherokee just visible in front of the Volvo. Then we have a Martini liveried Porsche 934/5 and Lancia Delta Integrale, just because it’s always nice to see those, and then the mad goth Jag sent in by listener Thomas/Gabriel. Finally, we Harris Mann’...
2023-08-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Richard has been to a safari park. Also in this episode, Jonny shares news of his local no-name full suspension mountain bike guy, the joys of the Gower peninsular, an ideal cottage and cars combo, a family of plastic cladding enthusiasts, blaming monkeys for things, the rarity of the VW Lupo, an Alfa with an odd sticker, getting buzzed by a ruined RAV4, liking Martini livery but not Martini, another entry for Jag wrong ‘uns club, and a tribute to the late Harris Mann.
2023-08-20 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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