Top Gear

Edin430 · Post by **Edin430** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:19 am

i knew already

tut · Post by **tut** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:02 am

tart..............

tut

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:11 am

What was May thinking... that shot of him in nothing but a 5 point harness will haunt me forever...

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:24 am

Thought it was good start to the new series, the look on Mays face when he finally twigged why the Aston wasn't starting was priceless.

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:29 am

Someone should have taken the Aston off May and driven it properly! It would have been good to hear and see it being driven quickly.

Brilliant start!

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:37 am

Rag_It wrote:Someone should have taken the Aston off May and driven it properly! It would have been good to hear and see it being driven quickly.

Brilliant start!

The aston sounded far better in the tunnels.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:37 pm

Shame they did not do that more recently and include the Ferrari Scuderia think it might have walked it

Stevoraith · Post by **Stevoraith** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:54 pm

shooomer wrote:Sorry, but I would take any of the 3 cars tested before an Elise

Me too.

I'd sell my soul (and my body and the wife and any vital organs) to have a 997 GT3. (or the RS- I'm not fussy).

In orange please.

Zippy · Post by **Zippy** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:38 pm

delands wrote:I dont have pics of Richard handy at the moment... but its suffice to say.. he has size 11 feet and is bigger than me and that he was 16 just 6 months ago.

Here's another photo wiv Tony C and a random ( ) from Lotus!

For those that don't know it, the "random (

) from Lotus!" in Del's picture is none other than Richard Rackham - the guy who conceived and designed the Elise Chassis (and again if you watch the video you'll see he was the first ever pax in the first ever run of the first ever Elise mule/prototype). All hail Richard Rackham!!

For anyone who has the Dangerous Book for Boys, look up the diagram on page 165. 2nd bottom in the first column is the flag of Calico Jack Rackham or go here if you don't have the book...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_Jack

In the 'Elise - The Inside Story' video Rackham reveals that he's a descendent from the illustrious Pirate and one of the female Pirates in his crew. Bizarre. Even more Bizarre is that Julian Thomson who designed the Elise claims in the same video to be descended from the King made famous in the musical "The King and I"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut

Cheers,
Iain.

tut · Post by **tut** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:19 pm

Fascinating information.

Met Julian who is definately Oriental orientated, but not Richard.

tut

Post by **campbell** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:22 pm

I managed to get a moment or two with Richard, Tony Shute (Project Manager) and Dave Minter, all on that trip.

[And Dave drove Lisa round KH in an early S1 Sport 190. She shrieked most of the way I gather.]

Never got any autographs though. Silly me. Too busy enjoying ourselves!

delands · Post by **delands** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:56 pm

I got Tony Shute to autograph the user manual of my first white elise during the trip in Germany.