Top gear - August 2nd - V12 Vantage

[cailin maith]

Man on a wire? Yes - it was fabulous.

I might try to catch up with it on iPlayer!

[Menelaus]

I might try to catch up with it on iPlayer!

Strongly recommended.

The wire-walker M. Petit is wonderfully enthusiastic.

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

[sasguru]

BTW, did anyone watch the tightrope thing after it? I watched a bit of it - it seemed really interesting but I was too tired to stay awake for it all -

Yes excellent it was. Wot a froggy nutter.
Anyway he crossed a wire linking the twin towers not once but a few times (staying just out of reach of the police who wanted to nab him - of course they weren't going to follow him onto the wire )

[cailin maith]

Strongly recommended.

The wire-walker M. Petit is wonderfully enthusiastic.

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

Thanks Men - will do!

Yes excellent it was. Wot a froggy nutter.
Anyway he crossed a wire linking the twin towers not once but a few times (staying just out of reach of the police who wanted to nab him - of course they weren't going to follow him onto the wire )

Those were my thoughts too! I couldn't keep my eyes open though... Thank the Lord for BBC iPlayer

[dang65]

(staying just out of reach of the police who wanted to nab him - of course they weren't going to follow him onto the wire )

Didn't they have guns in 1974? Bloody amateurs.

(It was a great little film. Just totally incredible, the self-belief that must take.)

[BrilloPad]

BTW, did anyone watch the tightrope thing after it? I watched a bit of it - it seemed really interesting but I was too tired to stay awake for it all -

Its a bit too long. Condensed to 30 minutes would be great.

[Spacecadet]

Also wtf is all the buzz about Jay Leno? He told one funny anecdote and delivered one sharp one-liner, but so what? Most of us could do that - as for his list of cars - as he said who wouldn't if they could? He seems entirely unremarkable IMHO

If you knew anything about cars then you would know what the buzz about Jay Leno was.

To save you the effort of googling.
Jay Leno not only has a huge collection of cars, he also finds and restores cars, some so old as to be almost forgotten. He has a team of mechanics working full time restoring (full and sympathetic), researching, running and maintaining the cars. Not only does he have the cars but in the cases where the original manufacturer is no more then he'll hunt down and collect all the paper work he can find relating to those cars. Orginal design drawings, dealer records etc...
He is without a doubt the biggest motor head they have ever had on the show.

[Churchill]

BTW, did anyone watch the tightrope thing after it? I watched a bit of it - it seemed really interesting but I was too tired to stay awake for it all -

interested in reading Harry Potter!


There, fixed it for you!

[DaveB]

interested in reading Harry Potter!


There, fixed it for you!

Like the new avatar Churchy, always knew you were a bit of a Window Licker

[Churchill]

Like the new avatar Churchy, always knew you were a bit of a Window Licker

That's me lying on my back under a glass table!

(Think the book/film "The Choirboys" )