[Shotimes] (OT) London Times Car review

[Zach Leahy]

I think the best ever on their show was when the tested the durability
of old toyota trucks.  TRhey abused the heck out of the thing, but
would put in no parts or anything that cost money.  Minor repairs were
allowed with basic tools to get it to run after each "test".

the basically got one and started by scraping it agains walls, then
hit a tree.  They took it back to their studio (abandoned airfield)
and drove it through a little shack, lit it on fire....  Took it to
the seafront (somewhere with a pretty violent tide) and chained it to
the boat ramp.  Tide came in and just reaked havoc on it, broke the
chains they had to wait for the tide to go out to get to it.  It was
on it's side in the sand next ot the ramp, looking pretty sad.  the
mechanic spent about 45 minutes getting the water out of the motor (it
was a diesel - europe you know) and they did get it to run again.  The
dropped it about 15 feet on it's nose from a crane and it was still
ok.  By this time it was pretty beat up and in need of an alignment,
but amazingly, it still drove.  Albeit, not really well, but it did.

The next show they have a tall old apartment building (like 20 stories
of so) that is going to get demolized.  So they lift the truck up on
top of the building... then implode the building.  Truck falls 20
stories.  They take an excavator and get it out of the rubble (it was
on the top of the building, so it was on top of the pile)  Put the
battery back in put some diesel in and it starts up, and drives!  Ok,
so the frame was broken, but WOW!  After that, they decided to let it
live.  No wonder terrorists in 3rd world countries use these as
"military transport"  (also seen as 10 guys with AK's in the back
driving around).

They also killed a 911 porsche, 80's version.  Taht was good, but I
don't wanna talk about it and offend Ron Porter.

Z 

On 5/13/05, Mark Nunnally <marknunnally@joimail.com> wrote:
> > It's Jeremy Clarkson, host of the british show "Top gear"  a similar
> > show "5th gear" is shown on the speed channel here.  It's my opinion
> > that they test they most outrageous cars, and have the most hilarious
> > hosts.  I've got a bunch of episodes on DVD and they are just great!
> 
> I think Dave Kegel sent me a link to one of those, where he tested the Atom.
> Very cool!  (300 hp in an 1100 lb car)
> 
> mark
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