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« on: July 29, 2006, 23:12:44 »
Clarkson, 'Hamster' & May take on 'White Van Man' machinery tomorrow, ought to be as thought-provoking as caravans & kit-cars :?
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2006, 18:40:24 »
It's the last in the series according to the papers :shock:
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2006, 18:50:09 »
Richard,

As a quick heads up, what time is it on?
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2006, 20:54:01 »
Was on at 8 but if you missed it is repeated on tuesday :wink: Have not laughed so much in a  long time :lol:
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2006, 20:56:59 »
Oh dear.
Typical japanese spends more time on its wingmirrors than on its wheels

Mind you I have asked SWMBO if I can have a noble for christmas.
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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2006, 20:58:15 »
another classic one think they get better with each program. havent laugh so much for ages
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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2006, 21:16:31 »
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Oh dear.
Typical japanese spends more time on its wing mirrors than on its wheels

I used to have a Rascal (the Bedford version) when I was racing bikes, it doubled as a changing room/umberella/bike-shed.

I never tried a 'Scandinavian Flick', but it did once scare me witless by swapping ends on a wet roundabout (half-way up Marsh Way in Wakefield for anyone who knows it)
Admittedly it was very, very, manoeuvrable & could park in minute spaces

On the flip-side, it was absolutely hopeless in the mud that usually acted as a car-park at Cyclo-Cross & mountain-bike races

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Mind you I have asked SWMBO if I can have a noble for christmas.
 :lol:
I got a TVR Griffith for my 40th :wink:  
(yes!, a real one!!)
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2006, 21:28:31 »
NO WAY!!!
You got a TVR for your 40th?????????

Your missus is obviously not a Yorkshirewoman :lol:


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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2006, 21:33:52 »
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Your missus is obviously not a Yorkshirewoman :lol:

Jeff


Well she's  from Wakefield by birth (like me), but spent her youth (roughly aged 5 - 15) in Brighton & Germany as her dad was in the Army
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« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2006, 21:52:15 »
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NO WAY!!!
You got a TVR for your 40th?????????

Your missus is obviously not a Yorkshirewoman :lol:


Jeff


Hey! I bought Johnty a series 2a for his birthday last year (ok so I am half welsh but still!) and he always allowed to spend money.........infact it is usually me encouraging him :lol:
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« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2006, 22:13:05 »
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Your missus is obviously not a Yorkshirewoman :lol:

Jeff


Well she's  from Wakefield by birth (like me), but spent her youth (roughly aged 5 - 15) in Brighton & Germany as her dad was in the Army


Ha Ha....I knew it!!

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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2006, 22:15:31 »
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Quote from: "landylover"
NO WAY!!!
You got a TVR for your 40th?????????

Your missus is obviously not a Yorkshirewoman :lol:


Jeff


Hey! I bought Johnty a series 2a for his birthday last year (ok so I am half welsh but still!) and he always allowed to spend money.........infact it is usually me encouraging him :lol:


Johnty is a lucky lad!!

I can't remember what i got for my last b day


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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2006, 22:17:17 »
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 always allowed to spend money.........infact it is usually me encouraging him :lol:


Joanne spends it for both of us

Example.
Selling (well, px-ing) a perfectly serviceable caravan & buying a 'Posh PortaCabin' at (less than sunny) Bridlington, then having raised decking fitted along one side :roll:

I've still only been twice (& for less than 2hours in entirety), though I've been told I'm going on the weekend of 12th/13th August :cry:


She once bought a brand new car (1995) after only going in the dealer for some touch-up paint for a scratch.
I was waiting in the car, she seemed to be ages & then came back saying she'd been for a test-drive & we were getting a new Punto TD the following week :shock:
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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2006, 00:00:11 »
Quote from: "landylover"
NO WAY!!!
You got a TVR for your 40th?????????

Your missus is obviously not a Yorkshirewoman :lol:
Jeff



Read here & Look here (from 'Approach Road Sign')

(sadly I had to give it back :cry: , but the 110 was almost a Griffith 430 instead!!)


Originally I had told her I wanted nothing for my 40th, as it's just another day.
I'm not one for celebrating anything, didn't bother for my 18th, or 21st & didn't have a stag-night  (I stopped in with Jack & Gypsy by myself)

I even usually work on my birthdays to negate the risk of a surprise party, but, after 20years Joanne knows better than that



However, this was found.
When she initially pressed the matter of a ' present', I told her I fancied a day firing/driving a traction engine, but they're expensive & far between
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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2006, 00:46:00 »
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Quote from: "landyloony"
vian Flick', but it did once scare me witless by swapping ends on a wet roundabout (half-way up Marsh Way in Wakefield for anyone who knows it)
Admittedly it was very, very, manoeuvrable & could park in minute spaces

On the flip-side, it was absolutely hopeless in the mud that usually acted as a car-park at Cyclo-Cross & mountain-bike races

Quote from: "landyloony"

Mind you I have asked SWMBO if I can have a noble for christmas.
 :lol:
I got a TVR Griffith for my 40th :wink:  
(yes!, a real one!!)


When I lived down south a mate of mine worked as a valet/carsalesman/general dogsbody in a small local garage and he had use of the "company van" a little pick up similar to the one hamster drove(think it was a honda acty or some similar name)
about 4-5 of us used to all pile in the back of the pick up and have  a run to the local beach or woods.
that tonight has bought back some memories  not all of them good.

There was a major accident with one of these(pick up version)when I was a kid.
3 youngsters where killed when one rolled when they where on there way back from a party. The van was being used to take people off the beach up a short track to a local farm where the party goers where camping, about 3 mile round trip.
The driver was sober but lost control on a bend.
I knew one of the victims as he had the alternative saturday shift in the same butchers shop I worked in.It could easily have been a lot worse though as there where 12 in the back - the police put this down as a major contributor to the accident
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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2006, 10:30:34 »
Not a good programme for you then to bring back those memories.............

It's not too long since I heard about an incident where the Police & Ambulance crews pulled 7(!!) injured  out of a (maxed-up) Saxo!!

The driver got a few charges when he'd recoved apparantly
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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2006, 13:43:54 »
Hamster flipping the van was brilliant! I just wish they'd have shown it back on its wheels so we could see what the damage was!! :D

Great episode, well worth the finale methinks.

My dad used to have a Honda Acty pickup, it was a LOT like the rascal but had about a 700cc bike engine. Not long after my dad got his two brothers from his quarry both got vans of them. One day they were racing round the council estates of Carnforth and one of them managed to flip it onto its roof.

He got out (Laughing like hell!) they pushed it over onto it's wheels and he drove it home! Now that was funny!
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« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2006, 13:50:32 »
If anyone did miss it you can watch the whole series here
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