Top Gear 1-12-02

[NorthernWave]

I was on Top Gear yesterday, did you see me and the gf???

She was the one that said 'Swap the MG TF for the Mazda MX5' on the cool board.

Chris

Buy my Fletcher please!!!!!

 

[Caronia]

I happened to be installing my new omni-directional antennae whist it was on and was testing etc. Cor Blimey! what a boring programme, how did you manage to stay awake whilst they were filming it? and Jeremy Clarkson as an arbiter of cool? in the immortal words of Lunchtime O' Booze "Shurely Shome Mishtake"

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

And a bloody stupid thing to say as well. Any fule know that MG TF and MX5 are major league hairdressers cars only rivalled by SL55 AMG in gay icon hit parade (TG previous week) !!!

 

[TwoStroke]

Are you sure you want to own upto this?

<font color=red>... I want to be back on the water!

 

[tcm]

Re: cool cars

Coffin-nosed Cord convertible
Citroen DS in black, or Decapotable in any colour
Citroen Light Fifteen in black, unwashed
E-type, any, but only if a bit dented, NOT if concours
Open Willys jeep or similar but only with strafe holes and gun attachement on bonnet
HumVee (any)
Anything postwar over 40 years old in the outside lane of a motorway/autoroute.
Any Ferrari whilst being driven by a lone woman (but not if bloke alongside it just means he is pissed)
NOT any company car.
NOT any car driven or esp owned by Clarkson (range rover, jag XJR, Merc M-class, merc SL)
No german car of last 40 years except BMW batmobile coupe somehow, and BMW Z1 but not in green, 1950's saloon mercs, 1960s merc limo 600 unless rented or in Monaco.
Iso Grifo (because of the name)
Citroen SM either hardtop resprayed met gold, OR chopped as in presidential motor.
Any car with motorcycle outriders.
Mk 1 granada COUPE (not sweenymobile)
Any individual car which you have just seen has done a hardbrake turn, or handbrake parking mnaoevre, even that shite Rover in the advert.
Lamborghini Miura BUT only if belting up alpine pass as in start of italian job and smashed to bits by mafia types.
Simca rear-engined 110rally special, for valour.
Fiat 500 (the old one) with wicker seats, not the standard one. or alright, if LHD.
NOT any merc (except half track or 1939-42 bullet-proof open top Grosser, esp if driven through Golders green, or Gulwing 300SL being thrashed, or fifties 190SL)
NOT any rover except the Cyclops Jet engined one-off PLUS the rover p5 coupe in the dark aubergine colour.
NOT any jag, except mk 10 as villains car and e-type as above.
no, not an audiTT, nor renault weirdy newshaped thing nor fiat multipla.
Most B-movie 55-63 yank tanks in dark colour, unless concours which makes them uncool.
No, not a Bristol, none them. Nor an Alvis either.


almost a complete list. Others?

 

[halcyon]

Re: cool cars tcm

was not the Mk1 Granada coupe not a German car ??????


Brian

 

[tcm]

out-anoraked halcyon, plus...

i thought i was ok there but was the coupe only made in germany? so, otherwise...?


The "atom" sort-of car thing with no bodywork is also cool.

Original late 70's audi 100's are cool but only the one from the advert with actual parachute braking assistance.

Unfortunately, no Aston Martins are cool, ever, except if converted into pickup trucks. The same rule applies to Porsche.

Ford GT40 is cool, as are Gulf-painted replicas provide they make reasonable racket.

Lamborghini espadas are one of very few cars that are cool if they are clean, but otherwise not cool.

The 3-seater matra-simca Bagheera is cool.

No VW beetle is cool, nor camper van EXCEPT the latest modern-style phillipe starck-ified thing that may not even be on sale or even in production, dunno.

 

[halcyon]

Re: out-anoraked halcyon, plus...

Sorry just had odd mates.
One was in love with Granada coupes, one worked on the Le Man GT40's, and his claim to fame was doing the old M1 flat out in full race spec GT40, another had one ex Le Man GT40's and never drove it, he also had a Muria, left it outside his flat for a year with flat tyres and the local kids playing on it. The firm that made Sealine tanks had what was claimed to be the tooling for the GT40, chassis and body, used to build to order

Just think, one day Sealine's may be cool.

Brian

 

[tcm]

Re: phew, got them in then

these sound very cool mates indeed!

Sealines will be cool dependednt on location. At sea or on rivers: never. But if put afloat on minor lakeland lakes (rydal, grasmere for example) or ESPECIALLY tarn Hows, very cool imho. I certainly saw no restrictions.

 

[petem]

Re: cool cars

Fiat 500 must be Abarth version

I also hear that 80's motors are back in fashion so here's some suggestions.....

Renault 5 Turbo II
Lancia Stratos
Ferrari Daytona Spyder
Lancia Monte Carlo
Lotus Esprit Turbo
Alfa GTV

OK so most of them were dogs or being Italian fell apart.

Then of course.....
Mini Cooper S (old style a la Italian job)

 

[halcyon]

Re: phew, got them in then

Planning on a helicopter, to get it to tarn Howes.

Looks like the TR7 is going to make soon.


Brian

 

[tcm]

Re: cool cars

ok, yes to the gtv but only the early ones with the weirsd cigarette lighter where you put the ciggie in the hole and then pick it out and it's lit. But the rest never really worked, so not really cars.

Fact is, most of these cardboard wrecks were trendy, never cool. Not compared with a Daimler Conquest (cos it cost £1066)- the hardest-looking production car of all time imho, and the only car to ever appear as though it is frowning at you from the back.

 

[david_e]

Re: cool cars

wot about the 'Bond Bug'?

 

[tr7v8]

Re: phew, got them in then

Sorry to disappoint but it already has from where I am sitting.

No obvious bias you understand....

Jim
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[boatone]

Re: cool cars

Rover 400 driven by BOF that gets you home from Stanstead?

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[paulineb]

Re: cool cars

Gilburn Invader
Jensen Interceptor

Pxx

 

[tcm]

Re: urgh gilbern

nope, don't agree with that at all. Nasty plastic thing. Interceptor is quite decent, almost cool. tepid, imho.

 

[tcm]

Re: cold cars

Oh yes, agreed, no question at all!

 

[tcm]

Re: trendy v cool

clarkson confuses these. The bond bug was fabulously trendy. You'd look at one. But would you drive it? Every day? Or would you feel a bit of a nerk. I think you'd feel a bit of a nerk, so it cannot be cool.

I think petem's small son will understand exactly what i mean. Cue rolling eyes and sighing as ice cream is offered instead of dangerous toy.

 

[boatone]

Re: cold cars

wot you mean cold.......I had the heater on for the first 5 minutes...

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