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Added 2022-12-11 18:01:02 +0000 UTCHello again. This week have various pictures from the live show (including the amazing low mileage 100NX in the marquee) followed by The Snowman being a thief, a typical bit of Belgian lab equipment for drinking beer, the surprisingly nice new Astra, and that inexplicable wooden ties stall.
Canal boat accidents - https://youtu.be/pvvGIJudJto
Clarkson’s drinky DB9 summary - https://youtu.be/wYQKPxzVvEc?t=19
That 1983 episode of Top Gear where no one drives a car - https://youtu.be/8M0H7xw6jSY
Jump to William Woollard’s amazing closing piece to camera - https://youtu.be/8M0H7xw6jSY?t=1703
Origins of ‘souped up’ according to Auto Trader - https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/origin-term-souped-isnt-what-you-think-265157
Car & Classic auction for Ferrari 330 GT - https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1964-ferrari-330-gt-22-rhd-41xGMn
Grange Hill theme tune - https://youtu.be/-SlvZF6k5bE
The full version of Chicken Man - https://youtu.be/I2wo3JdHTWw
The man who wrote it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hawkshaw
Drag Racer (the BBC snooker theme) - https://youtu.be/sNKJ-sGpMuU
Massive thanks to The Car Barn - https://www.carbarn.co.uk - and Aston Workshop - https://aston.co.uk - for hosting this podcast.
Comments
Brilliant, I was wondering what that was
Kev Sharp
2022-12-18 07:59:15 +0000 UTCSolihull Council has a fascinating* history of its mayoral limos at https://solihulllife.org/2022/09/08/sol1/ Spoiler alert — Range Rovers figure but Rovers don't. (* Might not be that fascinating)
Andrew Baynes
2022-12-17 14:40:53 +0000 UTCAfter listening I had to go back and watch the train v's aston ep, I must have watched that 10 times and never noticed how pissed Jeremy is, so obvious now you mention it, gold!
Red Five
2022-12-16 13:09:19 +0000 UTCI'm trying to find the Viz (I think?) cartoon of the guy who 'souped up' his Vauxhall Victor FD. Predictably it's painted up like a tin of Campbells soup.
John Hammond
2022-12-15 11:46:32 +0000 UTCHas anyone got the following episode of Top Gear to find out how heavily into second-hand cars, and crucially, how basically in Nottingham they were?
Nik Howard
2022-12-14 20:40:31 +0000 UTCThe whole Bath shed-fest is a load of shit. Wooden ties, artisanal pashminas & £9 Bratwursts. I had the displeasure of bringing a local boarding school group in for their monthly shopping trip. The usual coach drop off points were blocked off and I had a huge argument with the hired in 'security'. Then they want to charge £1 per seat for coach parking at Odd Down, a coach park which normally costs £1 per coach all day. I drove the coach back towards Bristol and stopped at a supermarket for my break.
John Hammond
2022-12-14 14:00:26 +0000 UTCYou mentioned about new. A new barber, when I was at. School form teacher used to. ask questions. You move to a new town there are 2 barbers. 1 has a really. Good haircut the other shockingly bad. Which one do you choose? The barber with the shockingly bad haircut. In the town the barber with the bad haircut. Has cut the hair of the persons which looks good. The guy with the good haircut is. not very good and has cut the other guys. hair. So relax if your new barber doesn't. have any lol. Also as a child and times were different no matter what you asked for the first barber I went to always drank Whisky and always heard "I want to look like. Hitler please" You would leave with. a severe.parting brill cream plus the smell of.scotch. Where he kept his combs . As. the area grew older his client base. disappeared lol
Paul Smith
2022-12-13 18:52:49 +0000 UTCAnybody that says _Astin_ Martin can do one.
Zoona
2022-12-13 18:08:19 +0000 UTCStill love that Elton John's "Out of the Blue" was the closing credits music on old old Top Gear. https://open.spotify.com/track/179G71G6qY3k5Fei5SXuZJ?si=41e99f61af694125
Phil R
2022-12-13 15:21:40 +0000 UTCRe: older drivers. My favourite is probably Bill MacEachern, who is 85 and drives a 670 whp 1974 Porsche 930 that he's owned since new. It has 800,000 miles on it and is heavily modified, including a 934 racing seat that Bill claims cures his back ache. The car has no air-conditioning, and he sometimes drives it from Toronto to Monterey. Bill is ace. Perhaps more mind-boggling was being behind this nice old lady in her sixties at the checkout, she with permed hair and woolly sweater and a jolly demeanour, and then I got outside and she climbed into a red FD RX-7 and took off like Yojiro Terada.
Brendan McAleer
2022-12-13 01:51:20 +0000 UTCGoogle Crawley Mayor road rage. He was a part time cabbie and got on a dash cam having a punch up!!!
Colin Hibbit
2022-12-12 21:50:13 +0000 UTCReg Vardy number plate on that 100 gives me the vapours... I worked for that shower in the 90's briefly. The service manager's wife had one. Gosh what a horrid company that was.
Ian Cleary
2022-12-12 18:42:34 +0000 UTCAlso still love Out of the Blue as the outro. The 6-odd minute version on Blue Moves is worth a listen
Ed Storer
2022-12-12 12:33:45 +0000 UTCAfraid to say, but I dropped a proper bollock and didn't see the Aston workshop, forgot all about it until mentioned during the cast. Ah well, next time......thanks for the evening gents, especially the rally cross stage for the exit!
Simon bland
2022-12-11 21:03:53 +0000 UTCChaos from start to finish 🤣
Archie Evans
2022-12-11 20:46:28 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/zwuJfJLtusg This beauty with the dirty guitar?
Fox Munsey
2022-12-11 19:46:02 +0000 UTCMy old work make used to say "You don't much have time left on this earth so don't waste it taking ages going from A to B
Nigel Hancock
2022-12-11 19:26:20 +0000 UTCTradition dictates me saving the actual podcast for tomorrow morning so I have no idea of context but I love that closing piece from old TopGear, it's an absolute classic - basically in Nottingham 🤣 Also, I was watching Grange Hill in the early 90's so never remember this theme but get all nostalgic for the later theme that nobody seems to remember, the one with the fast drums and electric guitar.
Sam Houghton
2022-12-11 19:11:53 +0000 UTCWhat a brilliant night and you really are as unorganised as you say! Nice for the snow to add a bit of extra excitement/squeaky bum time too.
Michael Lyth
2022-12-11 18:55:11 +0000 UTCThat marquee seems to be channeling the Palace of Versailles. La dee dah (Gunner Graham).
Chris Rayner
2022-12-11 18:47:15 +0000 UTCI live in Bath. THAT FUCKING WOODEN TIE MAN CAN FUCK OFF HONESTLY. WHAT THE FUCK. MAKES ME SO ANGRY. HES BEEN THERE FOR YEARS AT THE MARKET I DONT KNOW HOW HE GETS THE 5K ASKING PRICE FOR THE STALL AT THE MARKET WHO BUYS THIS SHIT
Gabriel Grist-Parker
2022-12-11 18:23:43 +0000 UTCExcellent night, even if the journey home was very eventful and exciting in the snow/ice.
Mark Sheridan
2022-12-11 18:08:17 +0000 UTC
