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Overbore

@overbore.bsky.social
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A podcast about old cars, new cars, and the spaces in-between, with Richard Kitchen and Alex Robbins

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Kitch @upndown.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Tomorrow evening, a 'Premiere' is occurring. A new car has arrived, but even @hubnut.bsky.social turned it down. How bad could it be?! 1930hrs.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 EPISODE 12 🚨 The last in the series! - Facelifts: ones that worked, ones that didn’t, and the one we think was the best ever - 21 years in a Citroen Saxo - Baps - Gordon Keeble excitement Get it here! linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
What’s the best-sounding engine? Kitch reckons a soaring V10, or a thrummy five-pot. Scrof’s a sucker for an old-school V8. What do you think?
The V8 engine from a Lancia F1 car, with cleaning chrome ‘trumpet’ inlets
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Kitch @upndown.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Slightly odd question, but does anyone have access to a Zafira Tourer, like this?
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This week’s episode comes to you from this rather lovely Volvo V60. Kitch judged it ‘not bad’ - praise indeed - and said it was the first new car Scrof’s brought in that he could see himself owning. (Scrof quite likes it too.) But was Volvo right to reincarnate its estates?
A red 2024 Volvo V60 estate parked in front of a set of old brick arches and a metal fence on an industrial estate. In the background is a Citroen Xantia.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 (slightly delayed) This week: - Poppadoms at the chippy Chinese - Why we like odd-fire V6s (and what they are) - Why Volvo stopped selling estates (then started again) - Hot male (and female) tools - What makes Kitch make this face Only on Overbore: linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you’re wondering where this week’s Overbore is, well, it’s coming. Just not today. Sorry. What with a family funeral this week, we’ve had to push things back a little, but we’re hoping to get the latest ep out to you tomorrow or on Monday. Hang tight - it’s coming!
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Continuing the 90s theme of our latest episode… The year is 1996. Your fleet manager has given you the choice of these four beauties for your next company car. Which one are you choosing?
Mk1 Ford Mondeo in grey, on some cobbles next to the seaA Mk2 Nissan Primera in metallic orange, with fishing boats behind itA pre-facelift Citroen Xantia in metallic red on an airfieldA Mk1 Renault Laguna in burgundy, in a field with rolling hills behind, at dawn
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🚨 OB10 OUT NOW 🚨 This week: - Why 90s cars are the best cars - Why the Citroën Xantia Activa sometimes falls over at traffic lights - Kitch’s short car sales career (very short. He got fired) Go! Listen now! linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our latest podcast studio. What do you reckon? Find out what it is - and whether it’s any good - on this week’s episode.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We’re back! And this week we’re in a Chinese car, trying to work out whether it’s any good. Also: all the cars we’ve bought, sold and test-driven during our two-week break. Wheeler Dealers, eat your heart out. Listen or watch here! linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
WE’RE BACK! After our brief hiatus we’ve moved to publishing our new episodes on Friday mornings, because it felt right. (It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact we couldn’t get our act together in time to record for Thursday…) OB9 drops at 10am this morning. See you then!
Scrof and Kitch pontificating in the back seat of a car, in darkness. Scrof is smiling while Kitch speaks, his finger held aloft to prove a point. Probably about old Citroens.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hi folks, it’s Scrof with some sad news. I’m sorry to report that Tony McLean, Kitch’s father in law and friend of the pod, passed away earlier this week. 🧵
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This week we’re in a Volkswagen ID.Buzz; this one, to be precise. Kitch hates the colour scheme, deeming it to be too try-hard. Scrof, however, thinks it adds a welcome dash of colour to our roads. Who’s right? (Comment below!)
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Why aren’t Volkswagens like this any more? We answer this, and literally some other questions, on this week’s Overbore.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨 THURSDAY ALARM 🚨 On this week’s episode: - Why touchscreens suck - What’s happened to Volkswagen? - A Mini adventure - Kitch breaks Scrof’s car Out now! linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In defence of the Vauxhall Adam. Really? Yes, really. Maybe we’ve truly lost it this time. Find out in the latest episode.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A Daihatsu Sirion in an industrial estate on a rainy day. What greater incentive could you need to spend your Sunday morning listening to Overbore?! Meet Skit, this week’s podcast studio, and a car with an astonishing cupholder-to-occupant ratio…
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Exclusives? Amazing guests? Cutting-edge insights? We haven’t got any of those. But we have got the story of the moss-covered Citroen that just wouldn’t quit. Come and have a listen. It’s better than… uh… not listening, we guess?
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Rory @norwichgiant.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Go listen to Kitch and Robbins talk guff in dim lighting, I promise it's worth it.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨 OB7 IS HERE 🚨 This week we’re coming to you from a small Daihatsu, to talk about small cars, and why they’re dying. Also: - the best estate ever - cars we liked but didn’t really love, and - dashboard fish. Get it while it’s hot, right here: linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Our latest podcast studio (and the worst financial decision of Scrof’s life). Worth it?
Audrey, a grey Citroen D Special in a car park at night
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 This week, Scrof answers your questions: - How do you become a motoring journalist? - Why does anyone buy a new car? - Can we put test cars on the dyno? Plus: how not to buy a cheap classic Citroen (like he did). Find us here! linktr.ee/overborepod
A bearded man in a heap of old French,  with a grin on his face that’s just a little too enthusiastic
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
If you were up early to watch the F1, follow it up with a podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with F1, and everything to do with the Peugeot 806.
A press photo of a Peugeot 806, viewed in side profile
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
On this week’s episode of Overbore: the Lotus Carlton, and why, just sometimes, meeting your heroes can be A Good Thing. Listen here: linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
THIS WEEK ON OB5 - why the Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L is the best car to drive to Newcastle - what the Lotus Carlton is really like to drive - what happened to all the MPVs - the heady days of the Eastleigh Motor Show Get it fed straight into your headphones here: linktr.ee/overborepod
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Episode 5 is in the edit and should be arriving in your regular podcast place TOMORROW. Which means it’s sound check time…
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
On this week’s episode of Overbore, we wonder whether the original Rover 800 is due its time in the sun. What do you reckon?
A press photo of a Mk1 Rover 827 Vitesse in black
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Time for a spot of lunch and a podcast, wouldn’t you say? On Overbore this weeks we’re talking Genesis and revelations. Download it from wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/overborepod
A Genesis G80 parked beneath a crucifix mounted on a wall
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This week, we’re in a Genesis G80. Jesus, He Knows It. - Scrof on why the saloon car is about to return from In Limbo - Kitch tells us why the Renault Espace makes him Hold On (his) Heart - Why the Rover 800 is about to be Where The Sour Turns To Sweet Turn It On Again: linktr.ee/overborepod
Scrof and Kitch recording OB4 from inside the Genesis G80
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
TOMORROW: It’s time for episode 4, in which we cut through the noise to bring you more of this sort of arrow-sharp insight. Or something. Tune in wherever you find us (links in bio!) from 10am. Or don’t. (No, actually, do.)
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
OB3 is LIVE! This week, Kitch explains why he’s bought another Citroen with no engine in it. It’s not a Citroen podcast - honest. Also in this episode: vampires, why we hate touchscreens, and tuned TVRs. Find us on your favourite podcast platform: linktr.ee/overborepod Thanks for listening!
Two middle-aged men sitting in the back of a BMW estate, recording a podcast.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
What does this scene from What We Do In The Shadows have to do with Episode 3, out tomorrow? You’ll have to tune in to find out. Although keen observers will probably be able to take a wild guess. #notacitroenpodcast
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5pot4pot (Si) @5pot4pot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Got the chance to listen to the first 2 episodes of @overbore.bsky.social with @scrof.bsky.social and @upndown.bsky.social on my way down to Salop from the north east today. Top work chaps. Really REALLY enjoyed it 👍
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NEW EPISODE This week, we sit in a small Peugeot to talk about small Peugeots. Also in this episode: a potted history of Noble, the Lamborghini Urus, how to review a car, and the 40-year MOT exemption. Find us on your favourite podcast platform: linktr.ee/overborepod Thanks for listening!
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
GOOD NEWS We’ve finally pulled our fingers out, and now we’re on Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts too! Here’s where to find us on Amazon: music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/77a... And Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... And of course, we’re still on Spotify and YouTube too. Thanks for listening!
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
WE ARE LIVE! Well, that is, we’re not actually doing this live. It’s recorded. But the recording is LIVE! Watch Ep. 1 on YouTube: youtu.be/hqkhFEg3R1Q Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07Oi... Don’t forget to hit Follow and Subscribe!
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Ep 1 | The one in a Citroën BX
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
TOMORROW we go live with our first episode at 10am on YouTube and Spotify (other channels to follow). Be there! YouTube: youtube.com/@overbore (subscribe now to get the episode in your feed!) Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3dN4aHy... (link won’t work until the episode is live!)
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Good dailies, done three ways.
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
They say hot pics drive engagement. Are we doing it right?
A press photo of a dark blue Peugeot 504 coupe with old-style black and silver French number plates, parked outside a lavish looking mansion with an affluent family preparing to depart in it
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Overbore @overbore.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
We’ve (finally) been up to something… More soon!
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