Jonny and Richard make another feeble attempt to read out listeners' messages. Topics covered include John Michael Jar, Kick by INXS in a convertible, the lost art of chatting about hifi separates, a crazy valve amp stereo for your car, news of the Lithuanian car scene, vehicles that have been de...
2022-07-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA handy compendium of things from the podcast
Hello and welcome to the Smith and Sniff encyclopaedia, a handy compendium of some of the things talked about in the podcast which might help to explain the background of at least some of this shite. Let us know if there’s something yo...
2022-07-12 14:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re leading this week with a picture of Richard’s old XJR, as it looked when he owned it. It still looks like this, thankfully. Incidentally, the car has now been sold but unfortunately not to Richard. After that we have William Shatner on his crazy trike, the Citroen C6 being sold by the F...
2022-07-10 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard attempt to read out some messages from listeners. Topics prompted by this and other things include, the words pigeons might be saying, what makes up fruits of the forest yoghurt, the possible genius of the Muller Fruit Corner, Jonny's ironic brake issues, the terrible fug of tra...
2022-07-10 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have a couple of pics of the latest Honda HR-V, the surprisingly long wand of the Koenigsegg CC8S (not CCS as they said on the show), the cacky Ford airbag wheel in a ‘90s Aston Virage/V8, a Mondeo showing a classic Morette four headlight conversion, the archaic engine bay of a Mer...
2022-07-03 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard's in an echoey room and Jonny has a question. Also in this episode, the new Honda HR-V, slipping clutches, how school proms help classic car maintenance, trying to get comfortable in an Audi R8 Spyder, a surprising gearlever, asking Ant Anstead for a deal on a Radford, choosing a Ford Cro...
2022-07-03 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead our pics this week with the classic Mansell look being sported by (a slightly older) Nigel Mansell at Goodwood. Then it’s a random scrapbook of photos from Jonny and Richard’s visit including recording in the showman’s trailer, the BMW M Car sculpture lit up for an exclusive party (...
2022-06-26 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard are at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed where they've encountered Nigel Mansell, tried to gatecrash Gordon Murray, met a sweary Le Mans driver, seen a tiny record attempt car, run up the Duke of Richmond's driveway, slept in a young offenders' institution, and had a terrible ...
2022-06-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry, due to an error the wrong show notes were posted giving a surreal, context-less series of pictures and nothing else. This probably made as much sense as the normal notes anyway but here we go with the proper version. We lead with Tom Selleck as Magnum, P.I. because, well, why not? Then pos...
2022-06-19 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Jonny discovers a new genre of German cinema and Richard has been inundated with hill parking advice. Also in this episode, countries where the moustache is acceptable, Tom Selleck's control of a tank slapper, passing your driving test in extreme conditions, men who wear shorts a bit too much, Sk...
2022-06-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead this week with Dame Judi Dench and a totally authentic photo of her engaged in a tricky belt job on a Bentley W12. After that, there’s one of those orange juice machines you definitely shouldn’t sabotage with random vegetables, Jonny’s very low mk1 Granada (with bonus Jonny's mum's ...
2022-06-12 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostJonny's had a new TV show idea. Also in this episode, the excitement of real life jousting, Honda Insight magnesium sumps, being sick behind an ornamental bush, the old days of boozy car launches, putting onions into an orange juice machine, worrying about parking on a slope, the love of house br...
2022-06-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. You might notice this week’s podcast sounds very, very slightly different which is because a) Richard was recording from his new shed and b) it was late evening and, without mentioning it, Jonny and Richard were both having a beer. Right then, what have we got here. Well, we lead w...
2022-06-05 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostJonny's been driving a 6R4 and Richard has visited a garden centre. Also in this episode, challenging fly tippers, getting yanked off DC current, things left in Richard's new house, what car makers call tow bars these days, the perils of a triple layer floor mat, excessively zoomed-in photographs...
2022-06-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We start this week with a lovely pic of a Mercedes S-Class from 1979, which is definitely the year Jonny was born, followed by a car from the year Richard was born, an Jaguar XJ-S. Yes. Finally, we have Andrew Ridgeley as he is today, kind of rocking a friendly consultant doctor vibe don’t you ...
2022-05-29 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard pick cars from the years they were born, once Jonny's remembered what year that was.
Also in this episode, electric scooter racing, casually flutey behaviour, seeing Andrew Ridgeley, people in Cornish taverns of the '80s, Rick Stein's idiotic breakfasts, a very expen...
2022-05-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. We lead this week with the most Bristol picture ever. The joy is in the details. Then we have Jonny as he recorded this show with a glass of wine, naturalist Steve Backshall being casual with a snake, The Chemical Brothers (Ed and Tom, or is it the other way round?) and the cover for...
2022-05-22 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJonny once went backwards up a runway and Richard has been haranguing a member of Blur.
Also in this episode, meeting Steve Backshall behind a sofa, refusing to use 5th gear, never checking your oil, over-checking your oil, getting haunted by a ticking 911, a picture of the most Brist...
2022-05-22 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
T'is true. We've decided to tret yers reet this Father's Day (or at least help someone else to tret you right).
That's why we've rustled up a couple of special Dad Day Smith and Sniff cards, which you can buy individually, or with some top (sock) drawer gift sets. These gift sets range in p...
2022-05-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, well, well. What have we got here then? We start with the Silverstone 'wing' (elaborate building movement railway, not pictured), a classic example of zany Eurospecs, and the new Range Rover Spowaaaaataaaagh followed by the similar (?) Reliant Scimitar GTE, a car which has never been owned ...
2022-05-15 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jonny's been to the Autocar awards and Richard is obsessed with GR86 numbers.
Also in this episode, the canals and moveable buildings of Silverstone, the joy of unusual Eurospecs, Gerry McGovern saying 'luxury' too much, car designers buying their own designs, the problem with metalli...
2022-05-15 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. Welcome to the late-running show notes for episode 107. Given how low energy it was, perhaps the notes turning up two days late is appropriate. Anyway, what have we got for this week? Well, we lead with an image from Gone In 60 Seconds showing Nic Cage in his terrible jacket and Ange...
2022-05-10 08:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostJonny's just got off a plane and Richard has been out drinking so it's a low energy show in which topics covered include Wherever I Lay My Hat lyrical confusion, the hungry horse Porsche, changing oil without turning the engine off, an unstoppable Austin Cambridge, reviews of the Mercedes EQS, Fo...
2022-05-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We lead this week with the Ferrari Pinin concept, just because it’s the nicest looking photo we have. That’s followed by the Hyundai Richard was thinking of (it’s called a Bayon apparently) and then that stancey ZX for sale, a classic Adrian Newey bum-up F1 car, and the 505 GTI about to auc...
2022-05-01 17:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostJonny and Richard wonder why singer Michael McDonald keeps buying cheap foldable fake Aviators from gas stations and then accidentally sitting on them.
Also in this episode, the Kia Starmer and Hyundai Bayern Munich football club, Lewis Hamilton buying Chelsea, living in Monaco versus...
2022-05-01 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Slightly later than normal because the Patreon website is being a twat we have some show notes to go with this week’s podcast. From the picture desk there’s Richard driving a GT-R in America, a grab of that now-deleted GT-R peacock ad, a GT-R and mk2 MR2 without boot spoilers, an El Camino be...
2022-04-25 07:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostBeset with technical problems including crashing software and randomly rebooting laptops, Jonny and Richard finally managed to record this show of nonsense with a few unwanted pops and squelches on the audio. Sorry about that.
Topics covered this week include GT-Rs in Peaky Blinders, ...
2022-04-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello gang. What a lot of pics we seem to have this week. We lead, of course, with the subject of this show's title, followed by the king of the deep Vs, Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. Then some sleezy Slotmags and the Weller 8-spoke, followed by a map of the M25 for those not familiar with i...
2022-04-17 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostJonny has discovered a new type of Mitsubishi and it's good news for your granddad.
Also in this episode, hot V versus deep V versus Flying V, Britain's sleeziest alloy wheel, going round the M25 by mistake, slipping Smith and Sniff references into interviews, a cute old couple in a M...
2022-04-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again. Talking, as we are in this podcast, of sports people in free cars, we start this week with a picture from a gentler time of the Aston Villa squad with an Montego. Then we've got evidence that Tiger Woods's smashed up Genesis DID have stickers on the doors after all, a promo pic of La...
2022-04-10 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post