Bangers & Classics

It's the 13th episode of Bangers & Classics, but the lads aren't worried. After all, what could go wrong? Well...apart from a mob carrying flaming torches and pitchforks descending on B&C headquarters, things go pretty much as usual: James is awarded an OBD for services to beards, David obsesses about trousers, listeners are subjected to one of the worst puns in recorded history, David takes on the Red Baron (or is it the red barns?) and James makes yet another shocking admission. Oh, and there's some stuff about cars too...

A crackerjack of an episode, in which James sneaks up on another MGB GT before making a startling admission about a Lotus Esprit, David gets frozen out by a Rover 213, and the lads find new wheels for both Snake Plissken and Audrey Hepburn. There's animal crackers when David talks about a duck and James reminisces about a ferret, and in a shocking development Bangers and Classics is taken over by a military junta equipped with Toyota Hiluxes...

In this action-packed (it says here) episode...James encounters an MGB GT with added M appeal, the boys re-ignite the rubber v. chrome bumper debate, Pandora's Box is opened when the Rover SD3 (or is it a Honda?) gets the banger or classic treatment, David tells of being denied a flight in a hovercraft (which may or may not have been full of eels), James eagerly anticipates being offered a flight in a car, a lot of old pony is spoken about the Ford Mustang, and the lads cruise down a couple of technological blind alleys in their American land yacht. 

In this, the tenth episode of Bangers and Classics, it's High Noon for the TR7 as the boys decide whether it's a Banger or a Classic; James has a breakdown, reveals his alter ego and then embarks on an examination of every special edition of the Vauxhall Nova; David tries to keep things real by talking about limited edition cars but ends up yakking on about a forthcoming book; and some of the finest car magazines no longer in existence come under the spotlight. Just the usual mayhem, then...

On this week's Bangers and Classics, is James a Sharp Dressed Man? Does David really wear an anorak whilst podcasting? Who played keepy-uppy using Davy Jones of the Monkees as the ball? What's David's new obsession, and was James really rugby-tackled at Wembley? Oh, and there's some car stuff as well...

In the latest star-studded but typically anarchic episode of Bangers & Classics (featuring Dave Prowse, Donald Pleasence, Benny Hill and Lee Marvin), the lads give advice on how to (and how not to) transport a rat, decide to set up a car hire firm with a suitably idiosyncratic USP, and talk about Bristols, 1990s SEAT Ibizas and Public Information Films.

This is the one where James and David deny the inevitability of electricity as credible propulsion by driving a modern one and probably will never be invited to try one again. The lads are agog at the prices achieved by classic cars at the moment, then compare and contrast good and bad classics This episodes involves guest appearances from a Bond Bug, 5GT Turbo, Bricklin SV-1 and some Beetles.

Listen to the latest Podcast…On Her Majesty’s Stationary Service where David and James watch some top quality early ‘90s telly:  Tales of Modern Motoring, make some suggestions about buying a classic car, the shocking disappearance of ’90s motors, before suggesting how classic car Shows could be a lot better and give a shout out to car show stalwart Kenny. 

Bangers & Classics Podcast present 'An Innocenti Man' with James Ruppert and David Milloy. where James admits to not being a Land Rover anorak and David claims to have been a model for a clothing line. Both of them can be considered beautiful flops like most Lancias and the Renault Avantime. Talk turns to milk floats and one of them turns out to actually be an Innocenti Man.

This is the one where James and David talk wheels, are attacked by jet aircraft, ponder convertibles for spring, underrated classics and the cars (& ladies) of the SHADO organisation from the UFO TV Series. Find out more at https://www.bangersandclassics.com