The Classic Car Show - Channel 5

[RichB]

Totally agree, if you look back on this thread you'll see I enjoy the programme but come on, it is worth taking the piss out of Quentin and his odd way of expressing 1275 GT

[RetroWheels]

fairynuff

[Flip Martian]

Seemed a poor editing choice to have 2 separate articles on the 911 in the 1 show. Ludicrous idea to have the pagoda going around the race track too. Despite the TBird appearance, prob the EP I enjoyed least.

Edited by Flip Martian on Saturday 21st March 07:09

[williamp]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

RichB said:

Be ok when they look at the Lotus one-one

Or the Ford Cortina one six one one E

Erm.....

[RichB]

williamp said:

Erm.....

Come on Cortina 1600E

[silvagod]

RichB said:

williamp said:

Erm.....

Come on Cortina 1600E

Yes, but what he said would have been the Cortina 1611E! :P

[forsure]

RichB said:

Totally agree, if you look back on this thread you'll see I enjoy the programme but come on, it is worth taking the piss out of Quentin and his odd way of expressing 1275 GT

And for getting his facts wrong - he said that the 1275GT had twin carbs, in fact it had a bog-standard 55bhp Austin/Morris 1300 power unit with a single SU.

[DSLiverpool]

silvagod said:

Yes, but what he said would have been the Cortina 1611E! :P

Yep lol but we all know that's a sixteen hundred E nothing else - like an xr4 was a two point eight same as the capri

[Flip Martian]

All this thread proves is that some people have trouble spelling out numbers

[Rumblestripe]

Just caught up with this weeks (5 on demand) and after missing a couple I think Jodie's performance is more natural than in the first one but QW does look more err vampire-esque!

I'd recommend watching it as a recording or on demand as you can whizz through the adverts and any boring "banter" twixt Jodie and QW.

Pluses:

1. IT'S ABOUT CARS!

2. The photography is pretty decent

3. It's not trying to be Top Gear (well perhaps the bit about Bruno lapping a car each week)

4. Would you really they just slotted in another soap/reality show?

Hope it has legs (though Jodie's pins are worth a quick perv).

[johnxjsc1985]

I watch it on catch up and fast forward the QW studio bits. It has definitely got a lot going for it and hopefully it will last more than one series and develop into a must view programme.

[Thundersports]

The 1275GT wasn't "twin carbed" as QW stated either!

[johnxjsc1985]

Thundersports said:

The 1275GT wasn't "twin carbed" as QW stated either!

I would have put money on them having a pair of SU's. Am I thinking of the mighty 1300 GT.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

johnxjsc1985 said:

Thundersports said:

The 1275GT wasn't "twin carbed" as QW stated either!

I would have put money on them having a pair of SU's. Am I thinking of the mighty 1300 GT.

Just the 1 SU on this'n

[Thundersports]

Mine only had a single SU as well.

[Randy Winkman]

I prefer it to TG. But then again, I'd rather see an old car on the road than a £200k Ferrari skidding around on a track. And at least it's not like a poor copy of Some Mothers Do Ave Em.

[johnxjsc1985]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Just the 1 SU on this'n

[forsure]

johnxjsc1985 said:

Thundersports said:

The 1275GT wasn't "twin carbed" as QW stated either!

I would have put money on them having a pair of SU's. Am I thinking of the mighty 1300 GT.

Yes you are, the 1300GT had twin carbs; the 1275GT had the Austin/Morris 1300 unit with a single SU.

[iva cosworth]

Thundersports said:

The 1275GT wasn't "twin carbed" as QW stated either!

I'm no Mini expert and Even I knew that.Tut tut 5.

It's all in the detail.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

johnxjsc1985 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Just the 1 SU on this'n

Er..that's been tweeked a bit methinks!