Mr. James May 'keeps it real'

[BelperJim]

ToadHall said:

Saw that tt Cheggers and tripped him up.

EFA

[Fartgalen]

I saw Richard Whitely in Sheffield.

[Alfa numeric]

Back in 1998 I was in Lakeside with my GF of the time and saw then reigning BTCC champ Alan Menu sitting in the food hall eating a KFC with his kids. He was on the table opposite me and became visibly uncomfortable when he realised that I'd recognised him.

[williamp]

Well if we're talking megastars, then my other claim to fame (ish) is that Anne Widdocombe ran me over with her supermakret trolley one christmas eve in Maidstone

[Daniel1]

Jeremy Clarkson and i use the same dentist apparently

[Greenwich Ross]

williamp said:

Well if we're talking megastars, then my other claim to fame (ish) is that Anne Widdocombe ran me over with her supermakret trolley one christmas eve in Maidstone

Now that's one turkey i'd not like to stuff.

[Pablo16v]

Greenwich Ross said:

doogz said:

So does a rally legend driving a diesel rental qualify as "keeping it real"?

Depends if he had all four wheels off the ground at the time.

It was in Glasgow so his car was probably on bricks by the time he finished asking for directions so yes, his wheels were most likely off the ground and in the back of van.

[Chris71]

Not motoring unless you count a certain E-type I guess, but...

A friend works in one of the music shops on Denmark Street and she spent a good 15 minutes chatting to a bloke with a North American accent before he left the shop. It was only after he left that one of her colleagues pointed out it was Mike Myers.

[furtive]

Daniel1 said:

Jeremy Clarkson and i use the same dentist apparently

What's he using it for, because it's not for his teeth

[Don1]

I turned down Victoria Adams in a pub in Maidenhead, just before the Spice Girls broke cover, and she became Posh Spice.

My actual line was "I prefer my shoes over her face", to my mate. She left, and I was refused entry to the club next door because my shoes were so tatty.

[furtive]

I saw Dave Lee Travis in Newbury fairly recently. He was wearing a very faded "DLT Radio One Breakfast Show t-shirt". A week later I saw Keith Chegwin in the same place. He was just wearing a jumper though.

[TypeR]

Touring Car driver Steve Soper pops into my shop on a fairly regular basis. All round good bloke as is Paddy Hopkirk who comes in once in a blue moon.

[Greenwich Ross]

furtive said:

He was just wearing a jumper though.

Good choice.

[Nick M]

Alfa numeric said:

and saw then reigning BTCC champ Alan Menu sitting in the food hall eating a KFC with his kids. He was on the table opposite me and became visibly uncomfortable when he realised that I'd recognised him.

A few years ago I was attending a conference in Madrid and we went out for a few drinks at an open-air bar near the hotel.

I looked across and spotted Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya (sp ?) about 10 feet away, and he happened to look in our direction at the same moment and eye contact was made (in that slightly uncomfortable 'damn, he's seen me looking' type way... ). I managed a very subtle smile / nod of recognition, trying not to make a big deal of it, and got a polite acknowledgement in return.

However, a little while later a couple of blokes came up to him all excited and a bit in his face, wanting to shake his hand, etc. Considering he was clearly just out for a quiet drink, the politeness and patience he showed was admirable. Classy bloke.

[CampDavid]

Got barged out of the way by Diego Maradona at Havana airport, he was surrounded by bodyguards but people were leaning in to touch him on the shoulder as he came through. One guy dropped to his knees and cried out "I've just touched the greatest player the world has ever seem. 5 minutes later everyone was back to looking board at all the flight delays.

[Carl_Spackler]

doogz said:

Me and my mate were in his Impreza on the day of Colin McRae's funeral, in the evening in Glasgow City Centre ragging it up and down Bothwell Street/Blythswood Square, we'd been to McDonalds. I was stoned in the passenger seat when i heard someone in the car beside us shouting, asking for directions.

It was a VW Jetta, turned out to be a rental, and Ari Vatanen was driving it, he was looking for directions to his hotel.

So does a rally legend driving a diesel rental qualify as "keeping it real"?

What i would have given for him to take us a drive in the Impreza!

EFI

(Edited For Impreza steriotype casting)

[Soovy]

Cleo Rocos is my next door neighbor.



You wood.

[thewilly]

I've driven Micheal Gambon's train, and sold a few XKR wheels to a well known singer who kept kerbing them.

[wolves_wanderer]

mgcameraman said:

My g/f and I were walking around Amsterdam a few yesrs back and saw a group of lads walking towards us, one of who was wearing a ridiculously oversized hat. My g/f said something like look he is wearing a hat like that bloke out of Jamiroquai, as they got closer we realised it actually was that bloke out of Jamiroquai!

I bumped in to him and Charley Boorman at Compton Abbas airfield. Lovely chaps both

[rgracin]

I was driving back form a BTCC meet at Silverstone about 10 or 11 years ago, when we hit some traffice on the M1. We came up behind a lovely Mercedes SL Pagoda. My passenger and I were admiring the lovely vehicle, then our stares moved to the fit, and I mean FIT blond in the passenger seat.

Our stares then moved to the driver who was looking back. and we realised it was David Coulthard. We gave him the thumbs up, he did the same, and the traffice moved on.