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Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:43 pm
by admin
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....
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:46 pm
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?
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:54 pm
by Aar0sc
I rather like the Volvo
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:00 pm
by JPB
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.
Now, how does one go about the business of claiming royalties?
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:09 pm
by Aar0sc
OOooooooo!
That's your rebel innit?!
Sue them, sue them sue them sue them
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:12 pm
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:
(Well it did until
someone washed all the shine off after I sold the poor thing).
Top Gear shot now added to my digital photo frame 'cos I'm sad that way.
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:17 pm
by Mrotwoman
Can't believe some of those stats though,only 12 Porsche 914s on the road ?
And just 8 Lada Rivas ?
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:20 pm
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.
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.
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 6:12 pm
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
Re: Look familiar?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 6:16 pm
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?