Paul hollywood

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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the paint defect that Paul Hollywood spotted and the paint quality guy had just missed.

[RichB]

syncii said:

Horts said:

Paul Hollywood is a compete k*ob!

+1.

That sort of stuff is fine over on Pie&Piston which, after all, is a bit chavvy and argumentative but on here one is entitled to ask why you say that? I thought he came over very well and clearly loves his cars. Decent bloke I thought.

p.s. Does anyone know if Cloverleaf (the grey Bamford & Martin car they drove up Aston Hill) has a centre throttle pedal?

[V8LM]

RichB said:

hat sort of stuff is fine over on Pie&Piston which, after all, is a bit chavvy and argumentative but on here one is entitled to ask why you say that? I thought he came over very well and clearly loves his cars. Decent bloke I thought.

p.s. Does anyone know if Cloverleaf (the grey Bamford & Martin car they drove up Aston Hill) has a centre throttle pedal?

Yes, it does.

[RichB]

V8LM said:

RichB said:

hat sort of stuff is fine over on Pie&Piston which, after all, is a bit chavvy and argumentative but on here one is entitled to ask why you say that? I thought he came over very well and clearly loves his cars. Decent bloke I thought.

p.s. Does anyone know if Cloverleaf (the grey Bamford & Martin car they drove up Aston Hill) has a centre throttle pedal?

Yes, it does.

He did very well then didn't he...

[petop]

Just watched it and really enjoyed the program.
Also thought Paul Hollywood came across really passionate about the whole brand and what it represents.

[shropshireAston]

I enjoyed it.. Paul did come over as a complete OCD Astonaught... damn nice fella - and seeing him with Andy P and Marek post race chat... they all seem petrolheaded and made me just want to go and look at mine!

Great to see the DBR.. and the DB10

I'll probably watch it again later :-)

[vankypanky]

i was surprised how pleasant the guy was and how much he knew so i am not sure where the nob bit comes in either but everyone entitled to an opinion

[JonV8V]

vankypanky said:

i was surprised how pleasant the guy was and how much he knew so i am not sure where the nob bit comes in either but everyone entitled to an opinion

Me neither. He seemed very genuine. The knob was the guy from the owners club.

[Little Donkey]

I met Paul Hollywood at Le Mans - stood on the terrace watching the race on the Saturday evening. Had a decent chat over a beer; down to earth, genuine and most definitely passionate about the brand. Absolutely no hint of any knobness whatsoever.

Now, I'm off to the cinema room in the east wing to watch a re-run of last night's programme - just as soon as Jeeves returns from walking the corgis.

[wokkadriver]

RichB said:

hat sort of stuff is fine over on Pie&Piston which, after all, is a bit chavvy and argumentative but on here one is entitled to ask why you say that? I thought he came over very well and clearly loves his cars. Decent bloke I thought.

I concur. Having watched this and the 'who do you think you are?' he did recently, it is clear he is very different from his GBBO persona.

Re-watched it again this evening with the Mem Sahib, thoroughly enjoyable.

I'm off to rummage around on the amoc website now and see how much of a roasting their man Mark is getting

[Ken Figenus]

All good for the brand but quite a mish mash, light and often random programme in my view. They needed a series of 3! Did he really visit Gaydon 'twice' ? And don't get me started on how he washed/dried that car. Shudder! Really related to his paintwork OCD though. All good exposure though according to a few chaps who flew in for our banquet this evening.

[Little Donkey]

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Ken Figenus said:

.........And don't get me started on how he washed/dried that car. Shudder!

Ha, yes - if he's at LeMans again next year I'll be having a word about him using an old pair of pants - I'm surprised Paddy hasn't popped up somewhere for a rant.

[kensilver]

Ken Figenus said:

...And don't get me started on how he washed/dried that car. Shudder!...

He was probably handed the rag and bucket for a 'film demo' clean - the place he was cleaning it didn't look that Aston Martinish (oops, sorry snob brigade! )

[Ken Figenus]

Agree - very common to wash them outdoors (with old M&S underpants) ;-)

[Stuart Mills]

To my absolute horror the very car driven by the baker has now been badly damaged. I do make a DBR1 inspired Replicar if they fancy racing one next time, much cheaper to repair, the whole kit is only £5k. Shameless advert.

[RichB]

Stuart Mills said:

To my absolute horror the very car driven by the baker has now been badly damaged. I do make a DBR1 inspired Replicar if they fancy racing one next time, much cheaper to repair, the whole kit is only £5k. Shameless advert.

Indeed shameless plug...

[Stuart Mills]

don't look if you love the DBR1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59A2bJCrfA

[Petrus1983]

syncii said:

Horts said:

Paul Hollywood is a compete k*ob!

+1.

Unless either of you know him first hand I wish such comments would leave PH. And "I met him in a pub once while he was with his friends and he didn't talk to me" doesn't count.

[The Surveyor]

Stuart Mills said:

To my absolute horror the very car driven by the baker has now been badly damaged. I do make a DBR1 inspired Replicar if they fancy racing one next time, much cheaper to repair, the whole kit is only £5k. Shameless advert.

Badly damaged but totally repairable, all adds to the cars history and much better that it's used as it was designed too, rather that hidden away under a dust sheet.

I watched the program last night and thoroughly enjoyed it and thought Paul Hollywood's enthusiasm came over very well. Probably a front-runner for the Top Gear job given he's a good pall of Chris Evans

[ds2000]

Not massively shocked that was on quarry.... seen a fair few things ping off there over the years