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Look familiar?

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Matt George over at Classic Car Weekly has just forwarded us over this link. Look Familar?

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/britai ... ?imageNo=0

Can't think where Matt Jones came up with that idea.... ;)
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#2 Post by TerryG »

I wonder which popular monthly motoring magazine he photocopied there...
Any news on how his pink bmw has gone down at the TG office?
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#3 Post by Aar0sc »

I rather like the Volvo :P
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#4 Post by JPB »

:shock: Looks extremely familiar, the write up is pretty well boll*cks though, it's a 750 and one of more than 80 still on the roads in addition to the 50 or so 700s and maybe 18 600s, many of which I've also owned at some point.

I'm having me a screen dump of that. :mrgreen:

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Now, how does one go about the business of claiming royalties? ;)
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#5 Post by Aar0sc »

OOooooooo!

That's your rebel innit?!

Sue them, sue them sue them sue them :D
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#6 Post by JPB »

The worst of it is that I sent "after" pics of the car to PC back in March '07 as well as that "before" one, and getting gelcoat to shine properly takes flamin' weeks, I know, 'cos when I used it daily, it looked more like this:
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(Well it did until someone washed all the shine off after I sold the poor thing).

:cry:

Top Gear shot now added to my digital photo frame 'cos I'm sad that way. :lol:
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#7 Post by Mrotwoman »

Can't believe some of those stats though,only 12 Porsche 914s on the road ?
And just 8 Lada Rivas ? :?
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#8 Post by JPB »

The image shows a Riva right enough, but the statistic (probably also short of the mark) relates to the earlier Lada 1500, come on Matt, get them right. :lol:

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Now that's a Lada 1500, even if it was found under "FSO" on Google. TG's art people must have labelled that one too.
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#9 Post by Mrotwoman »

Ah well,at least he's introducing some classics into TG magazine,which may broaden the appeal and possibly get more folk into the hobby.
Not a bad thing :)
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#10 Post by JPB »

Indeed not. Who else, I wonder, remembers the Teal Blue, 1972 Marina Coupé that TG mag gave away as a competition prize a few years ago after they'd saved it from a scrapyard, got it MOT'd and used it as a staff car for a few weeks?
Seriously, they did all of that and raved about the condition and general appeal of the Marina. How times change, eh?
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