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🕑 Added 2024-03-17 18:01:00 +0000 UTCGuys, 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 Lamborghini Miura. Finally, we have a Renault 12 (terrible welding and paint, not pictured), the incredibly algal C-Max send in by a listener, James from the Glasgow live show successfully Woollarding on Shabuya crossing in Tokyo, and the very thoughtful card given to us by another member of that audience. Now, some links…
Bumble Hole Foods, for all your egg needs
This is what the Late Brake Show might look like one day
List of Gandini credited designs here
According to this article “Gandhi’s flip flops” is used to express dryness of mouth
Sponsor Jonny’s running challenge
Get your Festival of the Unexceptional tickets here
Comments
Liam Belfield
Garaged worthless cars would be an amazing segment. My partner has a car right up there. An immaculate, low mileage 2001 eu generation civic. 81,000km on the clock, washed weekly and polished bi-annually. Sits in the carport next to my un-worthless, also low mileage Mitsubishi Legnum VR4
Tom Lane
Boosting today with a Stage 3 Lemsip MAX...
Ed Storer
My mother has a 2nd gen SLK200 from 2005 - the 1.8 - with about 20k miles. Immaculate except for a pin dent on the drivers door about which my dad is really annoued
Andy Pinchock
I had heard of fuel being made from algae but I am not sure this is what was meant... :-D
Andy Pinchock
It`s not Friday but figured I should share this very cringeworthy video.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unoTZnA542A
Matt Whitfield
Lichen subscribe
Niall Oswald
Giving away stuff on Freecycle is a great way to bring slightly odd old men in algal cars to your door.
chris tanner
Imagine a 500 litres of egg flowing from a broken bag in a pallecon of egg. It’s quite spectacular. 500 litres of egg can flow a long way 🤢
Ross Hetherington
Fun fact during covid Bum Hole Food used to give out trays of eggs for free to the local hospital we were like the egg mafia handing out eggs to the neighbours.
Chris Mackay
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/346142284468931/ Jonny, we know how much you love a camper........ Look at that sculpted upholstery........
Tom Lane
Jonny - The saying goes 'I've got a mouth as dry as gandhi's flip flop......
Nathan English
The new outro music 🎶 is a masterpiece
Andy Pinchock
<100% full grade pi$$ take snark>That's like saying Pilsbury refrigerated dinner rolls are an accessible form of star chef cooking... </100% full grade pi$$ take snark> Don't get me wrong. If you love doing something and you aren't hurting someone I will not stop you. My first car was a Firebird Trans Am bored out to nearly 400 cu in. Did I do wheel spins? (only got ticketed once for it) Did I do donuts? (as Garth said: "Way!") Did that, as Richard Hammond said, cause certain humans to immediately become infatuated with me? (I won`t answer that and stay fashionable... :-D) Setting a car up for drifting requires understanding of suspension, car geometry, power and torque bands, tires and brakes.... but so does every other form of motorsport... It also really doesn`t advance technology much does it? As many videos linked to this podcast and its creators have shown drifting can be done very very poorly. My point is just that with maybe a slight overlap with rallying it really is a microcosm in the realm of veeeeeehicle -based entertainment whereas other arguably accessible forms such as hill climbs, regulatory and parking lot obstacle courses will provide you with more skills for everyday and "spirited" driving than smashing the gas pedal and turn the steering wheel. I guess regular motorsport is more objective. You have to a go X distance as fast as possible with many other (or in drag racing one other) humans trying to stop you. Drifting has the whole jury thing which is always subjective. I would never mock a drifter and I never said they have no talent. I am also pretty sure they are mostly interested in other types of motorsport. At the end of the day motorsport today is 97.43994% advertising so if people want to watch it there is little one can do. It just seems out of a place in a world where we really should try to stop burning stuff as much as possible and you have series like the WEC that actually employs tech that trickles slightly down to road cars (unlike most formula sport). But hey,... I didn`t like rap music until my kids explained it to me so maybe I am wrong here too. As a Gen Xer I am always worried I made a bad choice (still worried about breakfast) so I could be totally wrong... PS: Since I have no musical talent this is how I avoid deadlines at work... :-D
david marden
The C-Max is what my truck looks like after sitting all winter here in Oregon. I'll scrub it this week now that we have some nice weather.
Tim Colton
Just a little counter to this. It is one of the most accessible forms of motorsport along with autocross and time attack. I agree it isn't great to watch (on TV at least).
TD
Photo 2 does look like you’re settling in for some “multimedia enhanced domestic relief”.
Iain W
Top notch Woolarding James! From your #otlot neighbour!
Andy Pinchock
I dare say I find tank turning much like drifting a waste of resources. Ever since the Top Gear episode where the lads`Mums learned to do donuts I have felt that drifting is not really great motorsport. Yes they can do very precise things with the car but so can any other form of road racing or hill climbing. Just because something is hard doesn`t mean it is entertainment. Maybe I am just too old...
Robin White
On probably worthless garaged cars / old money cars (i feel they overlap). My parents have a mint Discovery 4 HSE low mileage and golf mk6 (i think) neither them exciting cars but kept in perfect condition.
Brendan McAleer
I'll also shoutout these guys, as it fits into the Honda/Gandini theme: K20-swapped Fiat X1/9s. They're rockets, talk about your working man's Stratos. https://www.midwest-bayless.com/
Brendan McAleer
Friend of a friend with an Espada took a picture of it in front of an SR71 Blackbird with the caption: "What do these have in common?" Answered his own question with, "You'd think it's because they're both fast, but actually it's that they both leak fuel while stationary." Tip-top Woollarding James!
Tanner Lee Robert Milne
I miss #OTSOT
Luke
I love taking a gander at the pics in the show notes when they're released, even though I know I can't listen for a day or two. The mystery of how you got to these topics keeps me awake at night.
Stephen Archer
Wish I’d got a photo of it now but a couple of months ago, I overtook a Kia Soul EV (I think it was something like a 70 reg) with National Trust branding on it that was almost as algal as that C-Max. Not sure if it was deliberate or just from sitting in a wet Devon forest without being washed.
Darren B McLellan
I LOVED the wonky wheel arches!
Ian Wilson
Find another
James Manning
Thanks Stu, it was awesome 👌
Chris Taylor
That card is an exquisite example of the marque.
Stu Pearce
Superb Wollarding James hope that you had a great trip out there 👍
