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7 Mar 2007, 19:28 (Ref:1860844) | #1 | ||
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7 Mar 2007, 19:50 (Ref:1860868) | #2 | ||
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I'd forgotten about him! As for 'Drivel' ... it was just that. All the road tests they did were dictated by commercial interests. And they wrecked more than one punter's car that I know of. |
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7 Mar 2007, 21:05 (Ref:1860931) | #3 | ||
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Steve Berry can stay on damn radio, he was truly awful and knew absolutely naff all about bikes.
Anyone who knew anything about bikes at hte time winced when they ehard him going on about stuff on Top Gear. Then, when he was found out he tried to be all car friendly! Naff off mate! |
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8 Mar 2007, 10:42 (Ref:1861321) | #4 | ||
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Bring back good old William Woolard
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8 Mar 2007, 10:45 (Ref:1861323) | #5 | ||
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Top Gear? What's wi' all t'new fangled talk? Whatever 'appened to Wheelbase?
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8 Mar 2007, 11:04 (Ref:1861338) | #6 | ||
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Chris Goffey was good too.
Quentin "Smug *******" Wilson is doing well with his magazine writing (Classic Cars) and his car dealing. |
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8 Mar 2007, 11:24 (Ref:1861356) | #7 | ||
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On the Steve Berry front, you can regularly hear his voice on the Bennetts bike insurance sponsorship bits on the Men&Motors channel.
His production company made the "British Biker Build Off" show on the same channel. He also got some bad press last year by being a bit too eager to offer his services to the Daily Mirror to replace Richard Hammond as motoring columnist . |
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8 Mar 2007, 17:04 (Ref:1861597) | #8 | |
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I remember Steve Berry well, not that I cared for him much! He was just a very occasional (and usually brief) diversion from the main presenters.
Quentin Wilson, I liked him actually. Smug git, but quite funny. I got annoyed at how he described every car as "the dogs twitcher" though. |
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8 Mar 2007, 20:08 (Ref:1861713) | #9 | ||
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who was the Presenter in the first series of the 'new' Top Gear before James May came in?
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8 Mar 2007, 20:45 (Ref:1861745) | #10 | |
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Big Jason Dawe, the car buying expert person. Yawn etc...
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He hardly had anything to do in it. Guess it would be a little tricky to have him test an Ariel Atom or something.
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13 Mar 2007, 19:45 (Ref:1865809) | #12 | ||
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I noticed that bbc.co.uk/topgear has changed and details all the shows of the 'new' topgear and has some interesting information on some of the shows. Cant believe its been going so long!
In the first two shows of the first series it doesn mention someone called Jason, any ideas? |
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13 Mar 2007, 20:06 (Ref:1865829) | #13 | |
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There is nothing to mention really. He was just a boring sideshow and did nothing.
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20 Mar 2007, 18:16 (Ref:1872469) | #14 | ||
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Bring back Chris Goffey - genial gent with a user-friendly line in facial hair and nice jumpers. :P
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21 Mar 2007, 09:18 (Ref:1872924) | #15 | ||
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And his pop star offspring.
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Far too much waffle about power, speed, fun, excitement, dream cars, stupid stunts that make me wee myself and so on. What's wrong with replacing Top Gear with a more sensible programme, called, say, Middle Lane?? That's the sort of programming that I pay my licence fee for... |
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It is what we will have one day, probably.
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Chris Goffey always struck me as a disappointed deputy headmaster whenever TG tried to do anything vaguely sporty or amusing in t'owd days. Tony Mason was the best (indeed only) good thing about the old TG. |
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26 Mar 2007, 21:01 (Ref:1877075) | #19 | ||
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I think Steve Berry does the voiceovers for the Rustlers microwaveable burgers commercials.
I discovered a 1991 London Motorfair edition of TG a while ago on an old video tape. Goffey, Woolard, youngish Clarkson, Sue Baker and Tiff were all on the team back then. |
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Talking about the new format Top Gear, I think it is getting to the point I have to say its no better than Best MOTORing, Hot Version, Drift Tengoku and Video Option (thats if you are prepared to stump up some cash for dvds or download them from the net), even though thay are all very different to each other, and just thinking of that "Tiff Needell vs Keiichi Tsuchiya" thread, if I can find it But anyway, of all Top Gear format, I would prefer watch the 80's version |
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