Prelude 2.2, yeah?

Filmed in February 2020, Jonny and Richard talk about a lot of things, but principally Jonny's old housemate who had a fervent belief in the power of VTEC and was once so mashed he had to ring the home phone from his bedroom to ask someone to bring him up a glass of water. Enjoy it, folks. This is the last Smith & Sniff video for a while but there's a podcast on the way.
Episode 106
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[@HighPeakAutos]

Sounds like Taz might have had a night shift delivering pharmaceuticals

[@SteveMorton]

Watching/listening to these again 4 years later, I still laugh at these as much as I did when they first came out. Just brilliant

[@matthewbeeson5612]

Why this channel doesn't have more subscribers is one of life's mysteries. Thanks so much for continuing to make these little nuggets of comedy gold.

[@TheTrooper115]

It's pretty niche stuff tbf. Hard to explain to people in a way that sounds interesting too which makes getting new people to watch it easier said than done. Best I've managed to come up with is "Two blokes chatting shit in various cars, sometimes trying to review them but failing miserably", doesn't exactly sound like the most thrilling content, does it?

[@matthewbeeson5612]

@@TheTrooper115 true but then I liken it to Peter Kaye's Car Share and that was a big hit despite having a dull sounding plot.

[@trenttrevorrow5648]

@@matthewbeeson5612 I don't think they talked about the plastics used in bumpers.

[@Rich.Aardvark]

Still funny

[@West4ea]

Zooming in on Jonny’s face cracked me up “I can’t remember the rules”

[@sugarfreesince1995]

Barrie is actually my Dad. As you can imagine I grew up hearing all kinds of stories about his various jobs... also funnily enough we actually used to live in Solihull where your lovely Landy came from.

[@jonw9417]

" Have you been practicing?" "I keep my eye in." Hahahaha. Welcome to my world.

[@papa2k]

And a legend was born.

[@TheSaabClinicUK]

Belinda Carlisle drove a Saab 9-3 Convertible for about 8yrs. I used to service it for her (Ex Saab master tech). 4yrs Ago she went to get rid of it so i took it off her hands and its now my wifes car. Got to say she doesnt look after her cars, it was Minging inside. So bad we had to replace the seats, door cards and carpet.

[@adzy166]

Jonny that is hilarious - brilliant stories. My aunt had a boyfriend from Cov once and the family called him “Top End” because he’d always ask people what their motor did top end. A particular gem was when he told us that him and his brother did a ton twenny down the Nuneaton bypass in his Hillman Hunter.... and still had three inches of peddle left !! Coventry in the 80s was a brilliant place for auto bullshit.

[@Shane-zx4ps]

Adzy166 Great story, your aunts boyfriend was a total spoofer. 😃

[@MrPaulinbelper]

Love these increasingly random chats, Chris Gothy is a classic, I can visualise that as a Viz cartoon strip 😄😂🤣

[@bradwright9673]

I love these on a Friday makes my week. Lets hope the lockdown is able to finish soon to get these back up and running !

[@dereksamuel9226]

Genius Jonny! I'm from Bradford orignally, and your characterisation of Taz reminds me of fellas I knew in my childhood/at Uni. Brilliant.

[@40spinup]

The origin of a legend yeah

[@rpjwhite]

More excellent work boys. The Devonshire Arms sounds a lovely family pub

[@simonkempthorne4610]

Great stuff again chaps so thanks for that. Keep up the good work, you're keeping my mood high during lockdown.

[@GrahamDallas]

A poignant close up of Jonny to finish as he contemplates having forgotten the rules of Goth.

[@ImLeuff]

I'll be honest, I was excited when I saw the title and thought it would be a whole episode dedicated to the 'Lude

[@Trendyflute]

Ah, but the video title is always a reference to some small part of the video...wink's as good as a nod to a blind bat, and all that.

[@jamesgallagher1992]

Yea..disappointed😖

[@simonlovell5141]

I love you guys. I could watch you all day. Please don’t go quiet over lockdown 🤞🏼

[@ianhart554]

I can NOT WAIT until S&S can film in car vids like this again... :D

[@d8o8m8]

A lovely Easter Friday upload. Thank you gents.

[@transportevolved]

Loved our old Prelude. Also, so jealous of that lovely Land Rover. I miss them so much over here!

[@Strike86]

Chris Gothy: "My beard is itchy and causes me a lot of grief. I like it."

[@richardfittonperkins1926]

We need a Smith & Sniff base-model fest with such gems as the VW T-Roc 1.0TSi, Ford Puma Ecoboost 125, new Peugeot 2008 Puretech 130, etc. These are the cars people are actually buying. I had a ride in an Arona FR TSi 115 with DSG the other week and it was a lovely piece of engineering for the money. Really looking forward to the Podcast, guys.

[@aukanmeister]

I'm loving these videos way to much.

[@paulgroves671]

crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch

[@Zed_Zone]

My elder cuzs mates had a lude when they were at uni and as 12 year old I thought it was amazing. I met the same fella a few months ago after 28 years later and reminded him of it... He was well impressed I still remembered the lude!

[@sensiblezoomer]

It's amazing how much great content you can get out of one day in a Landy. Love it guys, stay safe.

[@Zerofightervi]

I love these conversations, I've done this with my brother anytime we're trapped in the same car. People watching is always great too.

[@CCGR-2024]

Why do I feel like we should’ve been in a pub for this episode? I would’ve loved a Guinness while listening to the two of them, I would’ve even bought the first round!

[@chedhead3278]

Cheers chaps, smashing episode. Interestingly enough (or not, please yourself on that front) Belinda Carlisle, while living in the Sarf of France, owned a Citroën DS in a colour not a million miles away from Porsche Macadamia. Somehow I feel the circle in the sand has been completed.

[@machiningbasics1729]

Sitting in a landrover eating wasabi peas. Excellent chaps

[@coombsfh]

We did a walking pub crawl for a friend's stag. Bradford-on-Avon to Bath. We consumed 2 gallons of beer each...before dinner. The secret is a pint of water as often as you remember. I'm not saying it's big or clever but if you are in it for the long run, that's how you do it.

[@rikobananas6]

Loved the mention of Mickey Finn & Bagleys! Taz was living at the pinnacle of late 90s drum and bass rave culture! 😂

[@CrypticSquirrel]

Best Smith and Sniff ever. I was proper laughing, sitting in my front garden on my own 🤷‍♂️

[@CookRacingUK]

A fine public service gents! Please, keep the editing suite cranking these out!

[@tw2210]

Thanks for the video!

[@imadeeplyspanishman]

Just the ticket for this morning staying at home Cheers chaps

[@julianowens4071]

Pure pleasure watching this,I have a good friend and we talk nonsense

[@DavidWardle]

Mid 90's I was in the green room backstage at a Radio 1 roadshow and Belinda Carlisle came in and asked how I was doing, said I was having a coke, her eyes lit up until she saw it was a can of coke. Sat for about 20 minutes just chatting and drinking coke together.

[@whiteloafers9658]

Brilliant, best one yet!

[@algygraham1870]

Jonny, you should pitch Practical Clubbing to the publishers of Practical Classics and Practical Caravanning it would fit nicely into their stable.

[@TwinCam]

Rich and useless trivia? I'd never have thought it!

[@nailz77]

Laughed at the second wedding, they're coming back around quip. Very true 😂

[@M0LHA]

Great you've got me eating wasabi peas now. My nose is in pain now, hope you're happy with yourselves. :)

[@andyholmes4676]

Didn't have any and not the biggest fan but really wanted some just then! Had to make-do with hot crisps...

[@hazzalandy]

In a really shit B&B in Ipswich I met the designer and mould maker of the MG B and Midget rubber bumpers, who also did Montego Maestro Metro bumpers and the Sinclair C5, so I bet it was him who specced it. Great bloke, but a bit racist

[@boblawrie5639]

Great, as usual. Hope you have a few unseen chats still in the can. Cheers

[@yogsshakessugar3864]

comical as ever thanks boys, stay safe!

[@yogsshakessugar3864]

I'm watching a second time now because I like "tales of Taz"

[@davidwren2513]

Always enjoy these videos boys, thank you for the good content! Noise of you eating kinda spoils it mind.

[@andyholmes4676]

Dunno, I kinda enjoyed the heavy crunching tbh! Not sure why, but it was somehow almost comforting in s way... 🤨

[@mattsewell1303]

One of my favourite endings. The look of dread is glorious.

[@bugattisteve]

Had p reg 2.2 vti manual when i was 19, cheap to insure, bulletproof engine, only the OAP gents would admire it and start conversations about it, freinds took the piss and swapped it for 325ci

[@chriscushing1275]

For what it’s worth, my grandmother was a teacher and owned a 356 Speedster in the late 1950s. She and my grandfather (a mechanic) replaced it with a one year old 356B in 1961 Especially in the US they weren’t worth much for quite a long time.

[@emmajg28]

Dying 😂🤣 love 2.2 voice

[@DandyDanDanDanDan]

Came back to the OG yeah, after the Goodwood FFS yeah. No one can do it like Jonny does it yeah. On that side of things yeah. Believe. Yeah.

[@AFExploration]

so todays lesson i learnt the bumpers on my Montego are made of the same materials as the Sinclair C5, now to annoy the wife.. :D

[@jwvandegronden]

"...do you have to be slightly enthusiastic about Satan?... Can''t remember the rules..." Jonny said while tearing up his expired GothBiz membership card...

[@FISHINGMINTY]

Your impression of Harpal sounds like an Indian Napoleon Dynamite 😄

[@JonnyJayJonson]

With all that crunching this could be an ASMR video.

[@Stoobers]

I have the Accord Type R, H22A7 (same block, different head)... love it :)

[@pickerrs]

Of course I looked up goth.biz and one of you chancers now have it for sale. Hilarious episode boys.

[@DerrenWeekes]

Two watches, Jonny? Fully enjoyed this chat - off to listen to some Fields of the Nephilim now 🦇

[@HawkMillFarm]

Good one.

[@chrissybee18]

Saw your lockdown talk with Ian yesterday. You’ve got to get him as a passenger when your v6 allegro is done!

[@hamzah510]

Might be the funniest one yet

[@harvinmahal]

Someone pls make a compilation of jonny doing the Predule 2.2 ye

[@natemallory9141]

I tune in for the non stop eating

[@richardmmoulds]

This week, Chris Gothy in the Polo Harlequin!

[@brumsgrub8633]

One day, I want Hammond, Clarkson, or may, or Tiff to pop up in the back seat and join in.

[@cameronmilne3590]

Not the makings of the best porn film, got to be honest.

[@888johnmac]

you do know Richard was an Editor on Top Gear ??

[@brumsgrub8633]

@@888johnmac yes, that's why I said it

[@jay.atkinson]

'Potato waffle' 🤣

[@pollumG]

Yes I had one in white in 98...seriously underrated

[@CSkwirl]

I bought one in 2000, still got it

[@colmcoakley3916]

9:25, brilliant anecdote

[@NJRD977]

Bagleys on a saturday night in the 90s - great times

[@MrGMawson2438]

Crunch crunch crunch 🤣

[@SirLoinOfsteak85]

Practical Clubbing sounds like a no-nonsense German techno band.

[@iandavis8725]

This week on Top Gear, Chris Gothy drives a VW Polo Harlequin.

[@zzhughesd]

This’ll be good.

[@benholroyd5221]

I was trying to work out what the car they were in was, based on the inside. The rear window arrangement looked very defender but seats and roof liner definitely not. I was hypothecating Japanese import.

[@jep1912]

Taz was in fact Taj from 'Come fly with Me'. Ya get me...? Izn'it.

[@lesflynn4455]

Jonny's mimicry is fucking hilarious.

[@Zerofightervi]

Wasn't Chris Goffey's son in the band Supergrass?

[@wayneb5742]

I was an ‘80s goth as a student. Time of my life. I was viewed with suspicion by the local goths for breaking the rules.... “why’s he wearing bleached jeans?”...

[@Snowy-666]

A bit of a S'n'S video crossover comment maybe, I recently went to a metal gig to see the frontman of Rammstein's 'side project' band Lindemann. For some reason that brought the goths out in droves. Now as a regular metal gig-goer I thought I was pretty broad minded, but seeing some really pretty goth ladies who had gone all out with facial and neck tattoos, hand tattoos, earlobes with dinner plates embedded in them was a new one for me. Most of the tattoos made them look like they had a black lace doilie imprinted on their faces. Was a different look for certain, not sure it was one that once they ventured beyond their early twenties they would not quickly regret. God I am old :D

[@nickprice3605]

Day drinking is the best. Kebab and an early night then you don't ruin the day after 👍

[@antonycharnock2993]

You both need to go car spotting in Whitby on Goth weekend..

[@robertbronson5248]

Who are these guys?? Every single vid is a gem.

[@RaggyJha]

motoring journalists

[@robertbronson5248]

@@RaggyJha Quite

[@ncmartinez_his]

Wow... Crunch... Lexus... UM... Crunch ...Prelude

[@m9cuss]

i had a prelude 2.2 for 5 years, it was the fastest car i owned, being that it was the only car i owned :) also, 4 wheel steer meant parking it was easy

[@ruk2023--]

Damn, Bagley's was my haunt around what I'm guessing is 98/99? Saw some crazy things there.

[@jctothel]

Ralph Hardwick 😂😂😂. Remember seeing some crazy shit in Bagley’s!

[@ruk2023--]

@@jctothel My craziest Bagley's story is a mate and myself managed to convince security that we had started a dance music website (this was 1998) and we wanted to review something or other, I can't remember what and managed to blag our way into the VIP bit upstairs where we sat between two lads who claimed to be Roni Size's nephews (they may well have been blagging like we were). Anyway it was a very weird atmosphere and we went back down to the main floor pretty quickly. And this happened in 1998, the year before Human Traffic came out - I'm sure they stole our blag for their plot. Or maybe everyone was doing it. Ended up in a right state in a flat back in Tunbridge Wells after that as well. Heavy night.

[@jctothel]

Ralph Hardwick Ha! That’s hilarious, as I once met someone in there who reckoned he was LTJ Bukem’s son! Probably the same guy you met! Also remember sitting in a sofa next to a couple who I thought were arguing, turned out in closer inspection she was jerking him off! That place had an amazing atmosphere but I was always a bit wary of its dodgier side no matter how mashed up I was!

[@edwardkaye19]

43 quid! He learned a thing or two from John Delorean then!

[@seancooke4127]

Chris Gothey. Hilarious. The man who wanted Vauxhall to redesign the Astra tailgate cos he almost banged his head on it.

[@flashman3962]

Berlinda Carlise had a Citroen DS when she live in London.

[@TheTrooper115]

I'm not a goth myself, though I have knocked about with a fair few of them in my time. My circle and theirs tended to mix a fair bit due to mutual interests. It's less an obsession with death and satanism more a fascination with the occult, witchcraft and that kinda thing, due to this "Wicca" is pretty popular in those circles. (Pagan witchcraft) That'll be what that hex in the Guinness is about I'd bet.

[@andyholmes4676]

I enjoyed the crunching, if people read 'two guys eat stuff and talk waffle' then complain about the eating, thats their bloody problem! Ok, if you were eating something sloppy and making lots of smacking/slapping/slurpy sounds that would be gross but a bit if crunching, come on ffs! Enjoyed the vid mesen...

[@neildavies2276]

Point Break - didn't that have the LA Guns soundtrack?

[@saintfunny]

Was Chris Gothy really upset with a high loading lip or was that Woolard?

[@camneilsen8234]

You guys need to replace that camera in centre of the dash

[@terryjones7778]

I carnt find that book anywhere lol

[@Rich.Aardvark]

Vince Neil from Mötley Crüe crashed his De Tomaso Pantera killing the english drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley when they went on a liquor run in Redondo Beach, California, in December 1984.

[@julianbean7715]

You guys! absolute twaddle, love it.

[@nicoelliott4893]

Has Jonny got two watches on?

[@888johnmac]

a watch & a fit-bit ( or some other fitness wristband )

[@RZ-1JZ]

The only thing getting me through lockdown!