bortaf
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Jul 20, 2009 12:02:27 GMT
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It wasn't even slightly funny. What was the point? Quite a few of the 'jokes' weren't funny actually - Olivier Panis' name for instance. Are you dead or sumink? he said Mr penis instead on panis and you DIDN'T find that funny? check for a pulse, quickly!
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R.I.P photobucket
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Jul 20, 2009 12:08:27 GMT
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From what I saw, the piano landed on the bonnet, so didn't completley destroy the Marina. Amazing how they managed to find a Marina rollcage in France though!
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Last Edit: Jul 20, 2009 12:09:00 GMT by moggyman
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Top gearretrowagen1234
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Jul 20, 2009 12:29:14 GMT
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These guys that come to buy the marinas for the bbc iirc tell the owners they are from topgear.... if the marina people are worried so much they wouldnt sell to em.... cant sell it knowing full well whats going to happen only to moan about it....
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Jul 20, 2009 12:32:08 GMT
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It wasn't even slightly funny. What was the point? Quite a few of the 'jokes' weren't funny actually - Olivier Panis' name for instance. Are you dead or sumink? he said Mr penis instead on panis and you DIDN'T find that funny? check for a pulse, quickly! I'm amazed ANYONE found that funny! Crikey. Coq yaout did make me chuckle though...
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1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org
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Jul 20, 2009 13:01:08 GMT
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From what I saw, the piano landed on the bonnet, so didn't completley destroy the Marina. Amazing how they managed to find a Marina rollcage in France though! Probably to save the brand new rollcage theyd just fitted. I agree with Dollywobbler, only 3 pages this time. Seems TG cant even be outrageous anymore.
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Jul 20, 2009 13:49:28 GMT
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I still watch it but It's a case of seen it all before really....
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Jul 20, 2009 14:11:29 GMT
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I still watch it but It's a case of seen it all before really.... Is getting all a bit "samey" now! Fast supercars the majority of people will never get to see let alone own! Clarkson & Hammond having mock battles like they did on the ice! Captain Slow is winning every challenge now (even if by default!) They need to replan it somewhat, a bit more the current format mixed with what it used to be when Tony Mason, Steve Perry, Quentin Wilson & VBH were on it, a variety of motoring features that appeal to all levels of petrolhead/car enthusiast. They could have some cool features like oldskool vs nu skool, a seriously modified old car vs something like a Porsche on a track or drag strip! Certainly a fair few Oldskool Fords out there that could smoke a number of so called supercars! Getting a bit bored of the current format as it is!
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MWF
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Jul 20, 2009 14:38:41 GMT
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We've got Fifth Gear for all sort of stuff, and I fast forward through most of that.
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Jul 20, 2009 15:15:04 GMT
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These guys that come to buy the marinas for the bbc iirc tell the owners they are from topgear.... if the marina people are worried so much they wouldnt sell to em.... cant sell it knowing full well whats going to happen only to moan about it.... Top Gear don't buy the cars themselves, they use third parties to do so who (and I have this from someone who should know....) will lie through their back teeth to get a car. We have the same trouble with a few Morris Minor people as well, but they are well known to the Club(s) now. The car that was torched last series was bought for 'restoration', the blue one that was smashed was claimed by a BBC bod to have been the stunt car they used (yeah, right!). the white one was sold on through two or three people after being offered through Ebay and not being sold, shame as it was a 19000 mile from new car and apart from a crusty front valance was solid. I believe one more is to be destroyed this series which was bought off Ebay.... it's all getting a bit boring now. Anyhoo, they clearly spent some serious £ on prepping those cars as I doubt bespoke Porsche, Nissan and Morris roll cages are available in France and the hubs on the Marina needed some serious 4 to 5 stud adaptors made specially, and I suspect they wouldn't have been allowed near the circuit without some mandatory safety equipment fitted (all of which makes the 'spontaeneousness' of the challenges look really stupid...). Mind you, I think Fuzzey was right, Captain Slow genuinely seemed chuffed the old girl finished the race! (about the only 'unscripted' bit in the whole saga methinks...) It's quiet over on the Marina Forum because we had a right royal go at the Mods for letting any mong on the board last time and they've instigated a delay in registering new members, apart from one original twerp called 'Jeremy Clarkson'....(who has since been suspended).
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored Rover 75 - Barge MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer... MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored Project Minion........ Can you see the theme?
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Jul 20, 2009 16:27:19 GMT
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To be honest I thought last weeks bit when they picked up the mitsubishi EVO drug dealer car with the tank thing and then shot it to bits was a helluva lot more entertaining than the usual dropping a piano on the marina bit ! Plus the Marina looked great with the alloys on too !
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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Jul 20, 2009 16:29:25 GMT
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On a side note , wouldn't it be great to see something like Richie Webbs beetle cabriolet race a Zonda/Veyron/Ferrari/whatever ? on a drag strip and leave it for dead !
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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richy
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Jul 20, 2009 16:36:31 GMT
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It's funny how there's been a lot of fuss about these M*r*nas, yet when a pretty tidy XJ40 was recently used in the leaping caravan stunt, very few people seem bothered..... Hmmmmmm......
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Jul 20, 2009 16:42:41 GMT
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It's funny how there's been a lot of fuss about these M*r*nas, yet when a pretty tidy XJ40 was recently used in the leaping caravan stunt, very few people seem bothered..... Hmmmmmm...... Becoz, there are lots more XJ40's left on the road than there are Marinas. Thinking along that line, how many Hyundai Scoupe's are left? After all, Hamster managed to destroy a fairly tidy one of them the other week.....
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored Rover 75 - Barge MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer... MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored Project Minion........ Can you see the theme?
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Jul 20, 2009 16:53:54 GMT
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I don't mean this in a bad way, but the marina guys know they are driving something that was never very good,when they should just been enjoying it as a classic or retro.. and now spend pretty much all there time shouting and screaming about how good they are.... i mean lets face it, its a 70's car, it was proven as a pretty lacking car then , its got nothing to proove now, and i agree that top gear are stringing it out, but in a way the marina guys are bringing it on emselves...
and don't say I don't know they are curse word, we have had three in the family, two were runarounds while a project was being worked on and the other was meant to be but was so buggered we weighed it. the two runners were sub 100quidders that were scrapped after use...
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Last Edit: Jul 20, 2009 16:59:33 GMT by retrowagen1234
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Jul 20, 2009 17:28:39 GMT
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I don't mean this in a bad way, but the marina guys know they are driving something that was never very good,when they should just been enjoying it as a classic or retro.. and now spend pretty much all there time shouting and screaming about how good they are.... I mean lets face it, its a 70's car, it was proven as a pretty lacking car then , its got nothing to proove now, and I agree that top gear are stringing it out, but in a way the marina guys are bringing it on emselves... and don't say I don't know they are curse word, we have had three in the family, two were runarounds while a project was being worked on and the other was meant to be but was so buggered we weighed it. the two runners were sub 100quidders that were scrapped after use... And that is why so few remain. They aren't brilliant cars, we know that, and it's the automotive equivalent of one of those creatures almost on the edge of extinction that isn't quite cuddly enough to warrant an expensive WWF campaign to save it. But, there are still people out there who know the history of the car, have used them daily and for motorsport (it was a succesful rally car before BL decided Triumph would carry the motorsports flag...) and would like to keep what few are left going without some sport-hunter blasting pot-shots at us for cheap laughs. Each to their own....
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored Rover 75 - Barge MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer... MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored Project Minion........ Can you see the theme?
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Top gearretrowagen1234
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Jul 20, 2009 17:46:21 GMT
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fair enough, i cant say i wouldnt want one, id love an leyland st styled one, must be a giggle if you gave it enough grunt, but stock they don't warrent a second look from me.... shame realy.
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Jul 20, 2009 18:08:17 GMT
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I'd give a Marina a second look, it's a very long time since I've seen one on the road.
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MWF
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Jul 20, 2009 18:14:11 GMT
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TopGear may have killed off a few Marinas but they've certainly given them a lot of exposure in the process.
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Jul 20, 2009 18:25:07 GMT
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I'd give a Marina a second look, it's a very long time since I've seen one on the road. Funny you say that , as i went to vw earlier to order some bits and saw and ital on the way back... nearly a marina lol
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carmad
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Jul 20, 2009 18:32:11 GMT
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i say let them keep wrecking marinas
makes mine worth more lol
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