Richard makes up an '80s American advertising slogan and Jonny has developed a strange obsession with Tiger Woods. Also in this episode, sports people in free cars, Last of the Summer Wine, a bum in the window of an SD1, Alonso Fernando and Hamilton Lewis, the arrival of Richard's new VW e-Up, chamois leather trousers, Alan Bennett in an Evo X, cars with hard drives for music, thinking that Celine Dion might smell weird, the oldest cars you can buy new, Jason Plato's last season of BTCC and t...
2022-04-10 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello you. What have we got here then? Well, there a few pics of the new Lotus Electricalsocket, in case you haven't seen that yet. Then we have Roy Orbison looking like a fancy dress version of himself, a delightful 1955 Cadillac, Richard with Elisa Artioli (and resented teddy bear sweater), Brut Spowwwwwaaaaataaaaahhh, those Mendurance capsules, and Jonny's Insight coming home. Now some links...
He drove all niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight - 2022-04-03 17:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard discuss the new Lotus Eletre and try on a freshly-discovered retro aftershave.
Also in this episode, Roy Orbison's poor standards of car maintenance, the appeal of 1950s Cadillacs, getting insulted by Robbie Coltrane, meeting Elisa Artioli, the highly competitive small blue knob pill market, entries in the biggest engine capacity spread game, details of Jonny's new car, and why the Eletre isn't actually a Lotus at all.
2022-04-03 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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We're leading this week with a picture of Michael Keaton at the Pretty In Pink premiere wearing a tie with a casual jacket. Of course we are. That's followed by the weird derelict mortuary with the Audi TT convertible outside that Richard mentions, and then a pair of Belisha beacons in case some listeners aren't sure what we're on about.
The Car's The Star about the Beetle (turns out they did use the bit with the man saying his wife left him) - 2022-03-27 17:02:00 +0000 UTC
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We're back on video except this one's only for you, our wonderful Patrons. This is the new podcast (with a slightly different start and end) but you can see us talking. Hope you like it.
In this episode we talk about, amongst other things, knock-off A-ha, cars in property ads, conspicuous illegality, almost crashing Britain's oldest Beetle, The Car's The Star, people thinking you've defecated in their house when you haven't, reviving a bee, Jonny's new cartoon crime fighting show,...
2022-03-27 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Ahoy lovely Patrons and welcome to the 100th episode of Smith and Sniff. Except it isn't actually the 100th episode because the very first one was accidentally numbered 00 and before that there was an unbroadcast pre-production prototype and of course the Patreon-exclusive episode over Christmas so really this is ep103, but let's not get bogged down in that now. Instead, please enjoy a picture of Jonny and Richard in the actual car park at actual Baldock Services and aerial shot of those serv...
2022-03-20 18:47:35 +0000 UTC
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To celebrate the 100th episode of this podcast Jonny and Richard meet up in their spiritual home; the car park of Baldock Services on the A1. Topics covered in this episode include people who won't sell you a car if they don't like you, thick Northern tea, returning Madonna to stock, the things doctors find up people's fundaments, smutty steam rallies, working scale model engines, weird measurements, the way Jeremy Clarkson says Aston Martin, American cars choking on strong Euro petrol, BMW b...
2022-03-20 18:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Well here we are again and what do we have in pictures this week? Well, we start with the VW ID.Buzz, obviously. Then we have an alternative version which Richard created in Photoshop after someone on Twitter pondered what the Buzz would look like in all-over grey with those retro wheels off the last Beetle. Moving on, we have two pictures Richard took in January by the Bristol Channel, proving that it's not as brown and miserable as Jonny makes out. Then we have the slightly unfortunate Fede...
2022-03-13 18:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard attempt to talk about the Volkswagen ID.Buzz but get slightly distracted by unexpected wetsuits, the Bristol Channel, Florence out of Florence + The Machine as a mermaid, meeting an etceterist, a weird homemade song about Boots Vouchers, walloping 909 beats, Federal-spec Peugeots, the film Blade (again), saying 'the thing is', being really into Marillion, having a terrible Ben Sherman Page 3 shirt, shouting swear words at a charging flap, low fat lard, and Richard's new car....
2022-03-13 18:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello you. Some notes to go with this abnormally throat clearing episode of the podcast. For pics, we've got the Morgan Super3, the SAAB Toppola, and the Citroen 'SexTourer' followed by the Ford Aerostar and it's follow-up, the ultra soggy Windstar. Finally, Richard's original notes for his idle thoughts about other rapper names based on US states. Rubbish.
That Flo Rida song. (It *is* called Low, by the way) - https...
2022-03-06 18:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Jonny decided to try something new while driving to Yorkshire.
Also in this episode, Richard has been thinking about Flo Rida, Jonny remembers getting offered illicit things by a dove-eating American cab driver, there's some middle-aged man confusion about rap lyrics, and an interesting story about a Mercedes estate.
Plus, Euro vans, the Citroen Spacetourer XL, making MPVs cool, soggy American minivans of the '90s, the new Morgan Super 3, bad wiper use, Smith and Sniff...
2022-03-06 18:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang. A trio of SAAB pics for you this week, starting with that brilliant 99 Turbo wheel (the design was called 'Inca', fact fans), then a nice 99 Turbo in full, and the interior of a later model in a questionable purple with red paint combo. EDIT: Added the Pepsi Concorde so it's not all SAAB pics. Now, some links...
Foreigner would like to know what love is - https://youtu.be/r3Pr1_v7hsw
"Awww, MUM!...
2022-02-27 18:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Jonny's been listening to Foreigner and Richard has a problem with the way people impersonate Elvis.
Also in this episode, enjoying over-the-top songs, the art of extremely good backing vocals, grating cheese on a SAAB 99 Turbo alloy wheel, the value of PlayStation memorabilia, the inconvenience of cassette tapes, and the heroism of tumbling superbike riders.
Plus, Fanta accidents, classic cisterns, West Country power, Japanese lavatory mishaps, more Alfa Giulia though...
2022-02-27 18:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello again. Jonny's back this week! And here are three photos to celebrate; Southend Pier, a SAAB doing an animal strike test, and a Lexus in an unusual olive-ish green. Now here are some links...
Southend Pier has its own website - https://www.southendpier.co.uk
That show where Gregg Wallace goes around factories shouting at people - 2022-02-20 18:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Jonny's back after a trip to the world's longest pier and Richard knows a man who once had a terrible accident with a holiday scooter of doom.
Also in this episode, Gregg Wallace shouting at people in factories, unfortunate bottoming out stories in other people's cars, smashing up a load of Corsas in the name of airbag testing, and why elks are idiots.
Plus, the strange quirks of the Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio, a very nice Lexus green, trying to persuade someone to buy a GS F, and a...
2022-02-20 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi gang. A feeble set of show notes this week, to go with the feeble podcast. Sorry about all this. Business as usual next week, we hope. In pictures we've got two shots of Richard's Range Rover and then the excellent fake YouTube graphic for Jonny's mythical horse care channel, courtesy of Talk Wrench. In the absence of anything else, here in full is that marvellous guide to German swear fines courtesy of the estimable Andy Pinchock. Thanks Andy!
You can get fined for ...
2022-02-13 18:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Richard is flying solo this week and spends most of the podcast droning on about his Range Rover and then mangling the pronunciation of German words. Sorry.
2022-02-13 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, lovely Patrons. We lead this week with a screen grab of D.I. Jack Frost with his old Sierra and follow it with a pic from the evo magazine archive of Richard in 2006 interviewing a conspicuously not-as-tall-as-he-is-now Gordon Murray. Then we have two shots of the bizarre, V6-powered Toyota Blade, and one of the Tatra 603 that Richard drove while making a Top Gear item about Eastern Bloc cars back in 2008. Finally, we have a photo of the one-off Bristol Blenheim 4S with Audi A4 A...
2022-02-06 18:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard wonder about a forgotten and very noisy part of the Mod scooter scene.
Also in this episode, the cars of A Touch of Frost, annoyingly needless idling, a BMW problem that only affects police cars, meeting someone from The Bill, seeing a Toyota Blade and wondering if Gordon Murray is getting taller.
Plus, Agnetha from ABBA running a Volvo parts warehouse, the weird noises made by Teslas, the price of second hand Alfa Giulias, the meaning of Cat S, the a...
2022-02-06 18:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Leading this week with some images of Gordon Murray's new T.33 before moving on to that distinctive ex-BOC office, the 1980s Weetabix advert cartoon characters, and the cover of that 'win a 924S' issue of CAR magazine.
Jonny's Late Brake Show video with Gordon Murray - https://youtu.be/xLVLeorCMRA
A fascinating urbex report on that old BOC site - 2022-01-30 18:41:38 +0000 UTC
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Jonny's been to see Gordon Murray and Richard has weird memories of trying to win a Porsche 924S.
Plus, some lesser known facts about the GMA T.33, the kind of Terminator robot that does admin, the cost of servicing a Ford GT, and discovering where Weetabix comes from.
Also in this episode, Britain's biggest Post-It note enthusiast, pre-selector gearboxes on buses, the fate of 5th Gear giveaway cars, people who say "pull the trigger", and what on earth is the matter wi...
2022-01-30 18:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello again friends. What do we have this week? Well, first up is a picture of that SL280 that Jonny spotted in London. His memory was playing tricks because it's not silver, although the tape holding the mirror on is. Then we have those odd Palm Angel ads, a picture of Coronation Street stalwart Mike Baldwin enjoying a (disappointingly small) measure of whiskey, and finally an ad for the North Edition of the Ford Explorer. Finally, some links...
The synth Richard used to have. His was ...
2022-01-23 18:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard wonder why Lionel Richie keeps turning up to a medieval Ford festival, even though the organisers have asked him not to.
Also in this croaky and hungover episode, meeting Meat Loaf, describing The One Show, making synthesised handclaps, doing bad boxing and drinking a Baldwin of whiskey.
Plus, sports people with accidental interview VTEC, Jonny's daughter in a Berlingo sliding door disaster, a listener has a nightmare with a Chrysler Voyager and some monkeys, the...
2022-01-23 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang. Here we go with this week's show notes. The pics show one of the 'drift spec' Discoverys that Richard spotted in Bristol, the rug-kneeling way Jonny recorded this podcast, and the very small bathroom at his new office. He didn't get a chance to take a new picture so this is the one he messaged to Richard last week but with his legs and fully descended pants/trousers pixellated for your comfort. Then we have an authentic photo of a hired Peugeot 205 GTI being used for a road rally ...
2022-01-16 18:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard discover a hidden pocket of hardcore D1 action that uses Land Rover Discovery 4s. Probably.
Also in this episode, Jonny's extremely tiny office lavatory, a trip to Britain's most '90s city, a trio of book reviews, father and son story corner, getting annoyed by people who say 'with regards to', a Porsche 911 with an industrial turbo, a krill-sifting Frontera driver, the death of DriveTribe, and brand new game show Ross Kemp's I Won't Repeat The Question.
2022-01-16 18:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello again gang. A cluster of pics for you this week, starting with Her Majesty in her old money L322 Range Rover. Green, clear glass, dog guard, nice. Shame about the bonnet ornament. Keen Royal car watchers will note that in recent memory she's also been seen driving a Jag X-Type estate.
Also pictured this week, the 'pope-style' windows of the old Fiat Doblo, the mad roof system of a first gen Citroen Berlingo, the state of George Michael's old Range Rover in the aftermath of h...
2022-01-09 18:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard have some ideas about the cars Her Majesty rocks at the weekend.
Also in this episode, a Fiat with permanently sliding doors, keeping cacti in a Citroen Berlingo, driving a Renault Kangoo with the door open, remembering George Michael, undergoing stage 3 dental work, and Jonny's hatred of people shouting 'OI OI!'
Plus, cars for getting away from a court appearance, Bananarama's Band Aid Golf, cars that are too flash for the house they're parked o...
2022-01-09 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Jonny and Richard are taking a break so here are some Smith and Sniff greatest hits from those old videos where they had lunch in a parked car. Topics covered in this flashback episode include the point of Magnus Walker, Jackie Stewart's West End Show and restomod, Jonny having a weird weekend with a Vectra VXR, Richard arguing with a car wash man about the size of the Rover 75, a second rate Knight Rider convention, ironic replicas, why dentist surgeries have fish tanks and not a duck waddli...
2022-01-02 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello gang, and a very Happy Christmas/Festivus/holidays to you.
For reasons we can't remember, earlier this year we recorded two podcasts in a week rather than the usual single episode. It was probably because one of us was going to be busy in coming weeks and wouldn't be able to record as usual so we thought we should 'bank' a show to be on the safe side. Then, also for reasons we can't remember, plans changed, the extra episode wasn't needed, and it was stashed away on a virtua...
2021-12-26 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello there. What's going on this time around? Who knows. Jonny and Richard both a bit tired this week which might explain why they were so giggly about a deeply childish lyric changing game. Anyway, here are pictures of Shakin' Stevens sitting on a Cadillac, leaning on a Rolls-Royce Shadow (that might not be his), and sharing a sleigh with a lady he might have just clattered squarely in the face with a very cold football. Finally, we have photographic record of Jonny's recent encounter with ...
2021-12-19 18:01:59 +0000 UTC
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