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Added 2024-05-07 17:17:09 +0000 UTCHello and welcome to the late-running show notes for the latest podcast. Let’s not get bogged down in why they’re late when frankly it’s just a load of pics of the Eagle limo and then a brief diversion into some fancy but slightly one-end-heavy Danish cutlery. Ahem. Here are some links…
Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry
According to Wikipedia, the Senator B had an Aisin Warner auto ‘box (but ZF Servotronic steering).
The guards’ vans Richard was thinking of are actually brake vans. Thanks to everyone who pointed out this important detail.
As for the Patreon price rise, it turns out you can’t just jack the price of an existing tier. On reflection, that’s extremely sensible thinking from the Patreon Corporation of America and we’re absolute flutes for not looking into this before announcing the change. What we’re about to do instead is introduce a new tier at the new price and encourage you to swap over to it. You can stay at the old tier, of course, but from now on if you’re there you won’t be able to see the show notes or get the new episodes early or, small drum roll, see the thread we’re about to post where we invite you to submit questions for our new Friday spin-off show, On The Other Side Of Things.
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Just listening to otosot 26 and your on about tar remover don't know if anyone else has suggested it but wd40 works very very well cmtmb
Olly B
2024-11-11 13:04:21 +0000 UTCA three door shooting break to complement the eagle / statesmen. https://www.facebook.com/share/9sNs2zCDUvPvgXQ2/?mibextid=79PoIi
Alistair Campbell
2024-05-22 16:11:49 +0000 UTCTiff’s reborn BRM V16…many years ago (mid 90’s) I bought a vinyl 78rpm record in an antiques shop in Scotland somewhere. So far, so dull you may think… Actually it’s possibly the only surviving recording of the BRM V16 going round Goodwood and was recorded by a company called Antone. Maybe Richard could remix it with Tiff’s sonorous tones over it and sell it in an almost transparent leather sleeve?
Simon Edwards
2024-05-21 14:38:27 +0000 UTCCannot change my membership status, been thru prices twice and it accepts my payment but I'm still stuck at Sppppooorrrttttaaa
Paul Fargher
2024-05-19 07:41:26 +0000 UTCThe original tier was always £1 a month. If you have been paying £4.34 a month you have been paying more than the minimum. You'll get the same content you are getting now for £2.49
Robin Johnsen
2024-05-12 20:52:20 +0000 UTCGuys Hey Guys - I'm confused by the new Tiers. The Eagle Quest tier is only £2.49 per month. I'm currently paying £4.34 per month (based on £1 per pod). Is there an option to preserve the amount I pay without losing any access? I'm guessing you don't actually want a reduction in my subs.
Firstdan2000
2024-05-12 18:34:16 +0000 UTCPodcast Addict or AntennaPod
Niall
2024-05-11 12:31:19 +0000 UTCCan anyone recommend a Podcast app for Android that's not YouTube Music. Google have decided to close their podcast app.
Des Denman
2024-05-10 08:23:34 +0000 UTCSo I'm missing something here about tiers then, all I can see is the £1 tier..
Chris Jarrett
2024-05-09 14:14:29 +0000 UTCAh, yes. A thought occurred to me. The “Eagle Quest” is giving me Canal Boat vibes.
Tanner Lee Robert Milne
2024-05-09 03:36:46 +0000 UTCNew Patreon member, old listener. Keep up the good work.
TouringDad
2024-05-08 23:10:15 +0000 UTCGents, Is there scope for expanding the collection. Vauxhall Omega Limo complete with custom air brushing 😂 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186433768847?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=khACXykGRBK&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=SDEt7iuCT4-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Andrew C
2024-05-08 17:47:35 +0000 UTCHave officially been Eagle Quested...
Andy Pinchock
2024-05-08 13:50:37 +0000 UTCWho’s to say we won’t?!
Smith and Sniff
2024-05-08 13:44:37 +0000 UTCI can't believe you spaffed the extra cash on the Eagle, when you could've bought the actual Austin Rover company... https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/austin-rover-ltd-company-name-registration-number-email-address-plus-metro-6r4-drawings-rec13479-3-sywell-0524
Nick Davies
2024-05-08 13:37:55 +0000 UTCThat is awesome!!! When are you going back to buy the Daimler XJ40 limo?
Frank Hall
2024-05-08 12:14:07 +0000 UTCAs new new member I was disappointed when you put the price up so paid for a full year. Then I felt guilty as £2.49 per month isn't even a pint of beer. I've happily upgrade to next tier.
Simon
2024-05-08 12:11:03 +0000 UTCthanks!
eddie
2024-05-08 12:05:42 +0000 UTCQuestion now is, can you find an EV with a matching wheelbase?
Matt Kimber (Timberwolf)
2024-05-08 11:35:55 +0000 UTCEagle Quest sounds like one of those terrible BBC Acorn educational computer games of the 1980s.
John Hammond
2024-05-08 08:41:25 +0000 UTCFascinating. When Holden got hold of the Senator/Omega to make the VN Commodore (1988), they apparently binned the steering - VNs had Rack and Pinion; but retained the live rear axle from the previous (narrower) VL - which was based on the Rekord of 1978. This may be because they stretched and widened the VB-VL platform and morphed it on to what was essentially an adapted Senator upper body. Later, they made an even longer wheelbase Statesman/Caprice luxury model. (IRS was introduced in 1991) VNs had the 3.8L Buick V6 (fairly powerful but uncouth) or the local 5.0L OHV V8. (the VL had used Nissan's sweet sweet RB30 3.0L straight 6 which was being used locally at the time as Nissan was making the R31 Skyline (and its dull 'Pintara' 4 cylinder sister) down the road. Interestingly, Holden developed a 4 cylinder model of the VN for the New Zealand market, which apparently used a Vectra 2.0L engine, but rotated it to sit north-south, retaining RWD.
Matt Stanford
2024-05-07 23:40:06 +0000 UTCTell me the 4th image ( Jonny in a chauffeur cap/hat) isn't a Foreshadowing of Jonny announcing his only fans account?
Jono
2024-05-07 22:35:25 +0000 UTCHappily Questing with the Eagles now. Can’t wait for the “support” to kick in.
TD
2024-05-07 22:29:27 +0000 UTCKettle simmering at the tail end, Click-clack, your rhythm's gentle blend. No hustle, no bustle, just pure delight, Radio waves fading into the night. Once a man of corporate solitude, Now a lantern, his spirit renewed. Flash of light along the riverside, Beware the man with four cans by his side. No oil, no name, no job, no blame, In the bleak mid-platform, a presence came. Vending machine vistas, a sight so strange, Two dogs in a trolley, their world arranged.
S B-L
2024-05-07 21:39:48 +0000 UTCHad to upgrade. The comedy is excellent. Thanks S&S
Mark Podmore
2024-05-07 21:37:51 +0000 UTCI am now a Questor of Eagles and shall polish the virtual badge to match. Splendid.
Richard Gledhill
2024-05-07 20:53:04 +0000 UTCIt's Gense, available from RoyalDesign.co.uk... https://royaldesign.co.uk/twist-cutlery-16-pieces :-)
Richard Gledhill
2024-05-07 20:42:45 +0000 UTCUpgrade applied. And a wee bit more to cover the works van. Great work.
Alistair Campbell
2024-05-07 20:30:59 +0000 UTCAs a newly anointed quester, when do I find out the secret handshake?
Mark
2024-05-07 20:03:21 +0000 UTCAlso, I used to pay £5 as I’m absolutely minted and extremely generous, but now I’m on this new tier it’s gone down to £2.49 and I can’t see how to up it to £5 again. Sorry about that.
David Jones
2024-05-07 19:49:42 +0000 UTCFlaunting exceptionally high-end cutlery and bragging about the cash purchase of an actual top-of-the-range limousine on the same week as a 149% price increase! Makes me sick. 🤣👍
David Jones
2024-05-07 19:48:00 +0000 UTCNice. Bagging it? :)
clive hedgecock
2024-05-07 19:45:09 +0000 UTCThey really are quite shit at this :-) Hopefully we all pitch in $5 for the amount of amusement they provide.
Paul Brown
2024-05-07 19:40:41 +0000 UTCThe remaining months on your Spowahtaaaaaah membership are credited towards your new Eagle Quest upgrade. 🙌
Grahame Hunt
2024-05-07 19:38:47 +0000 UTCThe best news is that I don't have to rage quit as the cutlery by a Dane that Jonny has is not the Arne Jacobsen stuff made by Georg Jensen. I'm not saying that gear is expensive, but I couldn't even put it on our wedding list as a full set in the 00s was about £1k 😳 We still don't own it 😔
Ant Brown
2024-05-07 19:27:46 +0000 UTCOoh. There's no £ option, so I've just saved myself some pennies each month because I'm now on $5. Bargain!
Ant Brown
2024-05-07 19:25:02 +0000 UTCMust be a Brown thing. I've been on a fiver a month since the start 🤷🏻
Ant Brown
2024-05-07 19:22:29 +0000 UTCI'm now fully Eagle Quest'ed
Daniel P
2024-05-07 19:11:50 +0000 UTCLove the cutlery; links?
Kevin Perham
2024-05-07 19:03:21 +0000 UTCCan you at least edit to new tier to called eagle and the OG tier to be called ‘Bottom of no name suspension bike Guy’s can bag’
Swanger
2024-05-07 18:55:01 +0000 UTCWho's going to radwood this year?
Russ Hill
2024-05-07 18:41:29 +0000 UTCI am a quester now
Russ Hill
2024-05-07 18:40:33 +0000 UTCwhat happens if you’ve paid for a year upfront?
eddie
2024-05-07 18:35:48 +0000 UTCI am bloody confused now with tears and thing's
fred bloggs
2024-05-07 18:30:26 +0000 UTCYes, I'll take the upgrade, some sticky wood effect trim will impress all my mates.
Graham Dallas
2024-05-07 18:22:10 +0000 UTCAs a Patron that pays very slightly over the Eagle Quest Ambassador General Statesman level does naff all happen to me? I just stay as I am? 🤷🏻♂️
George Wade
2024-05-07 18:19:58 +0000 UTCTechnically not an upgrade as I was paying over the market price anyways and will continue doing so
Paul Brown
2024-05-07 18:17:09 +0000 UTCOoh lovely new luxury tier with- hang on the clock's broken
Brendan McAleer
2024-05-07 18:15:42 +0000 UTCFluteshoot 👍
John Dawson
2024-05-07 18:08:36 +0000 UTCHup-graded, still got some blanking plates where higher model switchgear would be. That childhood envy when studying the dashboard picture in the user manual and referencing the associated numbers to find out dad’s car didn’t have fog lights or an electric aerial. Loving your work, John (Southport)
John Dawson
2024-05-07 18:07:08 +0000 UTCI have just become Eagle Quest tier. I now feel like a Temu super hero.......
Dave Carter
2024-05-07 18:06:47 +0000 UTCHave you guys thought about doing an live show at Great Northern Classics in Derby, which is after all basically in Nottingham? https://www.greatnorthernclassics.co.uk/
Nicky Ellis
2024-05-07 18:06:11 +0000 UTCI have upgraded because Kate Beckinsale came to me in a dream and told me to.
David Phillips
2024-05-07 18:01:45 +0000 UTCI'll go and syphon the petrol out of the old tier, I'd added the £1.49 to it already in case I missed anything.
Andrew Jude
2024-05-07 18:00:08 +0000 UTCI upgraded to the new tier with luxury floor mats and full leather interior.
Steve Morton
2024-05-07 17:55:13 +0000 UTCHave upgraded and seeing that beautiful Monty pic reminded me that my second car after an automatic five door lift back Toyota Corolla (just the set of wheels for a cool 17yr old) was a Montego with a broken drivers seat….in LX trim. The seat caused much hilarity and was the highlight of an otherwise total merd box….
Catcave
2024-05-07 17:54:24 +0000 UTCRather than Eagle Quest.. what about the PLanK? Shit yeh?
Andy Faulkner-Clegg
2024-05-07 17:49:21 +0000 UTCUpgrade done. Nothing but the best for you two....
david marden
2024-05-07 17:48:46 +0000 UTCIs that a Pott cutlery set? Been looking at those for some time.
Maurice Barnes
2024-05-07 17:41:26 +0000 UTCHappily upgraded to the higher trim model! Does that mean I get the hubcaps in the mail?
Bjorn van de Ven
2024-05-07 17:36:08 +0000 UTCTwo not very unteresting things to add from today's pod. 1) In the mid 90s my mother had a Senator B as her daily and she ran over my foot with it. 2) I had to accompany my daughter to see BTS live at Wembley stadium as she was a mad fan who was too young to attend alone. It was one of the most amazing performances I've ever seen at Wembley, even if I didn't understand most of the words.
Daniel P
2024-05-07 17:30:31 +0000 UTCI'd like to upgrade from the LX to the new Ghia trim level please, but only if you're including mats and a tank of fuel 👍
Andrew Armstrong
2024-05-07 17:26:33 +0000 UTCFind another
David burt
2024-05-07 17:25:24 +0000 UTCSo glad you posted the cutlery because I was genuinely wondering 👀
Newark Jr
2024-05-07 17:24:52 +0000 UTCLook like a fruit shoot in that hat 👍🏻
Ian Napier
2024-05-07 17:24:36 +0000 UTCBetter late than never. Can’t wait to see what the Eagle gets up 2.
Dan
2024-05-07 17:22:58 +0000 UTCIs there a secret "anti crawl" button on the front of the gear lever like my dad's auto Carlton had in the late 80's?
Bertie
2024-05-07 17:22:14 +0000 UTCSo we have Patron Popular and Patron Popular Plus?
Iain W
2024-05-07 17:21:52 +0000 UTC
