Talking superchargers with Carol Vorderman
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- This week Jonny and Richard talk about off-road mower riding, that time an Oregon town blew up a whale, listeners’ driving instructor stories and the different ways to say garage, plus The Sixties Man has a problem with his shoe. patreon.com/smithandsniff
"I've got me a Chrylser and its covered in whale" would have made a very different B52's song!
Lads, about that key...
That outro has "I have an important deadline" wrote all over it
I learnt to drive about a year ago, and my driving instructor has been instructing others to drive for so long that he had initially started put with a Moris Minor, which he still has, back in the 70's. The special distinction of this particular Minor, a common classic in our parts (Sri Lanka), was the fact that it was absolutely mint. Sympathetically 1950's, off the dealership lot, factory spec. He has maintained the car in such a condition by taking great pains and a lot of his financial resources to source original factory parts, such as hubcaps and light clusters. To better put this into context, most of our classic Minors have had JDM engine swaps and ride on period-offensive alloys. My most memorable moment was when, the driving instructor, upon feeling the kindred spirit when he discovered that I liked old British cars and so could divulge his passion, let me, for my last lesson, drive his treasured Minor. It was an incredible feeling and as it had been so well taken care of, it purred along our usual route, the less forgiving, comparative to modern units, ancient gearbox would be my only complaint. P.S. The Minor is such a clean example of the mark that it has won many awards in our local car shows.
That music over the news story at the end was eerily emotive, reminiscent of Paul Hardcastle’s 19. It was a different time…
My dad (who was a bit of a helmsman - did some road rallying etc) taught me to drive so I never had any official lessons. However part of his training involved putting my younger sister in the back of the car and allowing her to flick my ear if I did not look in the mirror every 10 seconds (or less). Later on as I got more advanced he also liked to pull the handbrake on in slippery conditions ( I learnt in an old school Mini) sending me randomly sideways. He did also teach me to double de-clutch and heel and toe and I passed my test first time.
I'm from Guildford and I say 'garage' as in Ga'raj. I think Nigel F should be called Nigle Garridge. Just on principle. I learned to drive in a Peugeot 205 and a Volvo 240. Much fun.
I would love to see a pro am race series for retrired dual control cars. Cut out the pedal box on the drivers side. PRO driver in the passenger seat doing the pedalling, AM in the driver's seat.
My driving instructor back in 87 used to read his paper while i drove, hed tell me to go to a destination then open his paper 😂
I only had 10 lessons then passed my test.
Is Richard secretly in a post rock band like 65daysofstatic/Maybeshewill? That’s a seriously catchy tune
On my driving test I was told off for travelling at over 35 mph in town and told I would fail the test. My response was that the indicated maximum speed on this stretch of road in the town I was born it was 40 mph. There was no apology but I did pass first time as expected :-)
Garage comes directly from French, because the Frogs were very active in the development of motor vehicles around the turn of the 20th century so gave us various car-related words, like chauffeur, chassis, or coupé for example. So traditionalists stick to a more French-style pronunciation of garage (the place to garer your car).
Love the whale song!
I had to stop listening almost immediately as I had to go and search '1970 whale explosion' !
Can we get a blue plaque on that roundabout?
If Richard isn’t using this as research for a novel based on a crazy drunk driving instructor I’ll be amazed 😂
I don't remember if Rich named his outro song, however if he needs one, might I suggest simply, 'Whale Song'.
Dong means east and Wang means king.
I would love to see a vehicle called the WangDong some time soon.
There are other types of superchargers than the standard pair mainly axial which work like the compressor stage of a jet engine but very few have been made and fitted to engines. also electric superchargers that are high pressure high volume fans powered off a battery that is charged though the electrical system.
There’s a Chinese bus called, “King Long”.
The Southern European country is almost certainly Greece. We have a minimum number of lessons required plus "beach road" is in Southern Athens. Coincidentally a lot of street racing used to go on around beach road in the nineties (sadly not the shixtees).
And regarding the listener who had an ex-porn star driving instructor, I can nearly beat that by having ridden an Uber in the States driven by an ex 90s porn star, he was called something Savage (don't remember exactly), he told me to Google him and there he popped up in a younger version of himself!
Edit after a bit of questionable googling: his name was Herschel Savage
Portugal requires 30 lessons before having an exam
Riding collect car bca in rain laughing head off driving instructor world !!! Quite apt , I joined learn to instruct driving world in covid and failed. Got to test 3/3 realised was a shit driver myself.
The Simpsons
Series 21 episode 19
Tells you all you need to know about how not to deal with a whale carcass.
Sweet Sweet guys cmtmb
The outro reminded me of Nnn NnNn Nn Nineteen.
Which country doesn’t have 30 hours required before being allowed to take the test? I thought that was a standard throughout Europe 😂
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Woo!
G'day! 🤩
richard's fake/AI american voice is making me... feel... things.