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Mar 26, 2007 21:08:42 GMT
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With retro cars at a retro Santa pod and a retro Noel Edmonds; I think it is from that show the late late breaktast show where they got members of the public to do stunts. I don't think a professional stunt driver would have gone so fast. I wonder what health and safety would say if you tried that now  Dave. |
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Mar 26, 2007 21:20:10 GMT
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Bloody hell, thats mental.
I don't think there is a roll cage in sight!!
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tux
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Mar 26, 2007 21:34:13 GMT
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FFS! Did you see the state of that Jensen? Is it me or was that John Peel doing the commentary? |
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paulw
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Mar 26, 2007 21:52:53 GMT
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I wonder what health and safety would say if you tried that now They'd probably point out that that series was cancelled when a member of the public was killed practising a stunt. Hardly surprising when you see how much care was taken for that one  'the car's gone into the crowd, but everyone's alright' |
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Mar 26, 2007 22:19:45 GMT
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what a bunch of fecking nutters - its a pity they didnt drive in Noel and that mike ' cant fly-wont fly' smith - instead of wrecking great cars  i mean a bloody Jensen - he deserves to get hurt i think it was peelie do in the commentary - he is sorely missed  |
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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I'm not sure but I think the guy in the Jensen was killed.
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Youre joking? I would have bet £100 on him being in bits!
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Last Edit: Mar 27, 2007 4:10:24 GMT by Lankytim
1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES. |
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Just sent my Dad that......he won't be amused with the interceptor jump.....it'll make him wince..  His one....doing its best to take up most of my driveway..   |
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Last Edit: Mar 27, 2007 7:23:19 GMT by Thrasher
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Anyone know Halifax? Anyone know the big flyover? My half cousin went off that in a Mk2 Ford Cortina many years ago (pre-retro LOL) when the fire crew turned up they thought it would be scoop up random body parts time but he walked (or limped) away from the crash and its a hell of a drop.... There was prety much nothing left of the car. And he probably wasn't wearing a seatbelt. sometimes you are just lucky.
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That was really rather unpleasent. I wasn't expecting to see him looking quite so mangled.
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That, is one of the most stupidly insane things I've ever seen!
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*runs off to construct a ramp*
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Mar 27, 2007 14:16:43 GMT
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I vividly remember watching this at the time. It was indeed John Peel doing the commentary, he was the outside broadcast presenter on the first series.
The crash in question came a couple of weeks after they'd done it as part of the 'Whirly Wheel' challenge spot. I can't remember the name of the chap who did it, but he jumped a Hunter at the Pod, set a new UK leaping distance record while doing it, and smashed into a 3 week old Mercedes BBC staff car. He was 'trained' by an old school UK stuntman (Dick something or other), who also featured on another challenge which involved rolling a car as many times as possible (Victor FD, I seem to remember). All the stunts were done live.
So a few weeks later, the challenge to do car leaping was thrown open to the public. Again, this was broadcast totally live without any sort of time shift or delay, which sounds unbelievable now. A few people (both male and female) managed to do the jumps sucessfully, the Escort was the first crash and you'd have thought they'd stop it then... but no. I seem to remember that the members of the public actually supplied their own cars for the jump, but I could be wrong. Whatever, anyone with a modicum of braincells should have maybe mentioned that a 10 year old Jensen was possibly not the best car to use. You'll note there were no saftey mods to be seen, no roll cage or anything. The credits rolled as Noel looked worriedly at a monitor screen. Next week he was back, "he's ok... and he wants another crack at it..."
The Michael Lush tragedy in the next series put the kybosh on The Late Late Breakfast Show, but Noel was soon back with the Saturday Roadshow - same programme, different title, just with no mindless stunts involving untrained proles...
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Last Edit: Mar 27, 2007 14:17:15 GMT by ampex456
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Mar 27, 2007 14:41:04 GMT
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and people wonder why the BBC do big risk assesments now. OK so nobody forced those guys into the car but without any training or safety equipment it was just blind luck that the first guy wasn't killed. Allowing the next run was just plain criminal.
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