ALERT: 50 years of Bond cars - Top Gear 9pm tonight (Monday)

[Eric The Viking]

Just had to mention this.

No comments regarding Top Gear itself - I'll be watching for the cars!

E.

 

[Racers]

Shame its just the hampster, he is very annoying, did you see the wildlife program he "presented" what was the BBC thinking having him front it, I was hoping a lion would get him.

Pete

 

[bodge]

Is it really 50 years? I feel old now.

 

[henton49er]

Shame its just the hampster .......

Pete

Better him alone than Captain Slow or the world's biggest bigot alone.

 

[Racers]

I like captain slow, some of his programs are very good.

Clarkson only says things to provoke people just like someone on this forum.

Pete

 

[Mike.S]

I like captain slow, some of his programs are very good.

+1

 

[disco_monkey79]

What a fantastic prog, I didn't want the hour to end! Like or loathe Hammond, his keen interest in the subject was undeniable.

Great stuff.

 

[Racers]

Yes it was better than I was expecting it to be.

Pete

 

[Harbo]

Good programme but would have liked to see how they got the Lotus out of the water?
What's happened to Sean Connery he doesn't seem to appear live in any of these anniversary productions?


Rod

 

[Benchwayze]

Is Sean Connery busy preparing himself for Scottish Independence?

I went to bed half-way through the programme, promising to download it from iPlayer. Up to the moment, I can't. Either my browser is playing up again, or Virgin is going on a 'work to rule'! What I did see I thoroughly enjoyed, especially the item on the 'blown' Bentley. What a gorgeous, "Monster"! Somewhere I have a plastic model of that car. Unless No. One Son got hold of it!

Looking forward to the programme on iceberg exploration tonight. That looks interesting. That's what I call 'reality' TV! Hope to stay alert this time!

 

[Grahamshed]

I thought it was pretty good. More serious than I expected.

 

[Webby]

i am getting a Citroen 2cv well it was a BOND CAR :mrgreen: :|

 

[tsb]

I was 12 when The Spy Who Loved Me was released and all I remembered about the film was the Lotus Esprit and saying to my Dad that one day I would own one.
I never stopped wanting one and I was 24 when I bought my silver Lotus Esprit.
I kept it for 2 years and is the only car I've ever made money on.
A Motorhome is my next dream vehicle-- I must be getting old !

 

[Eric The Viking]

In 1980, before the Bond film, a schoolfriend of mine had a summer holiday job wire-line-logging for an oil exploration company, in one of the last years of his engineering degree (how times change!). The pay was good but he was stuck in the middle of nowhere with a drilling rig and had nothing to spend it on. He bought a secondhand Lotus Esprit (white).

It was indeed a fantastic car, but a maintenance nightmare, as it wasn't of the highest quality construction. It developed a brilliant fault with the lights servo though: there was a dodgy microswitch, such that if he blipped the headlights, one of the two popped up a second time on its own, before going down again.

A proper repair being expensive, he worked out how long to 'blip' so that it would do it on demand. He would scream to a halt whenever a pretty girl was waiting to use a zebra crossing, and then flick the headlights, so it looked like the car was winking.

I think it worked on a few occasions

E.

 

[DTR]

he worked out how long to 'blip' so that it would do it on demand. He would scream to a halt whenever a pretty girl was waiting to use a zebra crossing, and then flick the headlights, so it looked like the car was winking.

=D>