The Classic Car Show - Channel 5

[Smollet]

Still watching but my expectations are dwindling. There's just no buzz to it and the contrived atmosphere between the two hosts is starting to really grate.

[Halmyre]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Munter said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I still like the program...


...but has anybody every heard the 1275 in 1275gt pronounced that way before?

Nope. It's it's always been a twelve seventy five GT to me.

and to everybody else I've ever met!

I always read it as 'one-two-seven-five GT'. I don't know why they didn't just call it the 'Clubman GT'.

I notice that the Clubman's designer (Roy Haynes) also did the Mk2 Cortina, which explains the front end.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Halmyre said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Munter said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I still like the program...


...but has anybody every heard the 1275 in 1275gt pronounced that way before?

Nope. It's it's always been a twelve seventy five GT to me.

and to everybody else I've ever met!

I always read it as 'one-two-seven-five GT'. I don't know why they didn't just call it the 'Clubman GT'.

I notice that the Clubman's designer (Roy Haynes) also did the Mk2 Cortina, which explains the front end.

I don't know if you are a fossil like me (), but those of us who were around when it was a current car all referred to it as as twelve seventy five gt. (As we all called 1100 eleven hundred, not one one zero zero)

[Smollet]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I don't know if you are a fossil like me (), but those of us who were around when it was a current car all referred to it as as twelve seventy five gt. (As we all called 1100 eleven hundred, not one one zero zero)

Yup I'm with you on this as it seems most others are as well. I had a BMW 2002 in1974 and called it a two thousand and two.

[Willhire89]

Smollet said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I don't know if you are a fossil like me (), but those of us who were around when it was a current car all referred to it as as twelve seventy five gt. (As we all called 1100 eleven hundred, not one one zero zero)

Yup I'm with you on this as it seems most others are as well. I had a BMW 2002 in1974 and called it a two thousand and two.

The BMW is one where you hear both two-double 0-two and two thousand and two and either seems natural. I have never before heard one-two-seven-five

[BigBen]

Willhire89 said:

The BMW is one where you hear both two-double 0-two and two thousand and two and either seems natural. I have never before heard one-two-seven-five

I have always read it as one-two-seven-five, but probably never said it out loud. My knowledge comes from the Dinky catalogue of the time.

[vixen1700]

Willhire89 said:

The BMW is one where you hear both two-double 0-two and two thousand and two and either seems natural. I have never before heard one-two-seven-five

Never heard two thousand and two before, it's always been a two-double 0-two.

You could start a whole thread about this sort of thing and discover entirely new versions of things you've never thought of before.

[Scotty2]

As a Scimitar owner for quite a few years, there were lots of errors in the article.
ALL 5a's have these rear lights so nothing special there (poor earth problems). It wasn't the last model. After the 5a there was 6a, 6b (8 for the convertible)and Middlebridge. The "3 Litre" badges were wrong and stuck on (bit like "M" badges!) afterwards - It is no way worth anything like £5k, more like £500. See also horrible aftermarket sunroof.

These cars are great grand tourers, have a good spares network, fairly easy to maintain and usable with a good load area and folding rear seats. Pity the article was so poor...

Why did they not research it better? A quick call to a specialist could have put them right.

[Halmyre]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Halmyre said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Munter said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I still like the program...


...but has anybody every heard the 1275 in 1275gt pronounced that way before?

Nope. It's it's always been a twelve seventy five GT to me.

and to everybody else I've ever met!

I always read it as 'one-two-seven-five GT'. I don't know why they didn't just call it the 'Clubman GT'.

I notice that the Clubman's designer (Roy Haynes) also did the Mk2 Cortina, which explains the front end.

I don't know if you are a fossil like me (), but those of us who were around when it was a current car all referred to it as as twelve seventy five gt. (As we all called 1100 eleven hundred, not one one zero zero)

I'm not saying how old I am but the (original) Mini just scraped into production shortly before I did.

I never said '1275' out loud or heard anyone else say it. Oddly, I would happily have described my dad's car as a "Maxi Seventeen-Fifty".

On a related note, in the UK Alfa 156 is usually said 'one-five-six', but in Italy they say 'centro- cinquante-sei' which translates as 'hundred-fifty-six'.

[RichB]

Let's put this one to rest. I'm 58 and both my brother and I together with numerous other people in the 60s/70s had Minis and they were known as Twelve Seventy Five GTs. And the Morris Eleven Hundred was called just that.

[Cledus Snow]

Willhire89 said:

RFC1 said:

and the animation of the 12-75gt showed it as having external door hinges.

You sir have earned an anorak point....

The Austrailian twelve seventy fives had external hinges. And would explain the arch extensions the animation had too.

[The Don of Croy]

I used to like QW when he was rolled out on TG, but he seems a little false...maybe he's trying too hard?

But why, oh why, does he bend forward so his torso is almost parallel to his thighs? Does he have a chronic gut problem? Bursting for a pee?

[RFC1]

Cledus Snow said:

The Austrailian twelve seventy fives had external hinges. And would explain the arch extensions the animation had too.

Well, there you go,. i never knew that !!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

RichB said:

Let's put this one to rest. I'm 58 and both my brother and I together with numerous other people in the 60s/70s had Minis and they were known as Twelve Seventy Five GTs. And the Morris Eleven Hundred was called just that.

Along with the Morris one zero zero zero

[gareth_r]

I'm waiting to see what happens when they feature the Rover Three Thousand Five.

[RichB]

Be ok when they look at the Lotus one-one

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

RichB said:

Be ok when they look at the Lotus one-one

Or the Ford Cortina one six one one E

[DSLiverpool]

The mini was a twelve seventy five GT - nothing else

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

DSLiverpool said:

The mini was a twelve seventy five GT - nothing else

Ferzactly

[RetroWheels]

I'd rather watch a flawed, car based program than a lot of the reality/soap based nonsense that the terrestrial channels seem to be transmitting.

On balance, iv'e found the Classic Car show to be good viewing and the episodes iv'e seen up to now haven't compelled me to turn over for 5 minutes when it get's boring.. unlike Top Gear .

Of course the Bearded will be able to point out the flaws in any article that features their marque of expertise , but all in all it's a good hours viewing - and actually does what it say's on the tin - concentrates on classic cars.

That said , i'm hoping they feature TVR at some point soon,so that i have the opportunity to indulge my own personal wkfest of factual minutiae based nitpicking .