Heads Up! BBC 4 - Motoring special tonight
Discussion
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but BBC 4 are doing a series of motoring programmes tonight:
20:30 - Alex Zanardi, Life goes on
21:00 - In search of speed (1/3) "Bonneville Salt Flats"
22:00 - Cobra Ferrari Wars
23:00 Car Crash: The Delorean Story
00:00 - Mercedes goes to Motown
Get the beers and pies in for a long night in!
Phil
20:30 - Alex Zanardi, Life goes on
21:00 - In search of speed (1/3) "Bonneville Salt Flats"
22:00 - Cobra Ferrari Wars
23:00 Car Crash: The Delorean Story
00:00 - Mercedes goes to Motown
Get the beers and pies in for a long night in!
Phil
Wish I had more channels.
I watched this last night.
The Zanardi documentry was ok. You have to give Zanardi full respect for his full recovery...and in 3 months too.
The Land speed record documentry, was the one I enjoyed the most. Art Arfonz is a legend. See the 'workshop' full of aircraft engines was amazing. I enjoyed it where they talked to all the old chaps (all in their 60'a/70's). I laughed when they chatted to one of the old chaps, and he had a motorbike in the lounge and he showed his bedroom, full of car pics/parts chequer flag decoration and old PC's. I thought to myself....yes, a typical piston headers bachelor pad
Was also good, watching and hearing the accounts of the record runs and failures too, and why they failed.
The Cobra documentry was also good too. I would of thought they would of had more interviews of Carole Shelby himself....but I am glad that the documentry focused more on the car and team. I hadn't heard of Tim Miles before, but he seems to of been a very good technical driver and a character that stood out from the crowd. Anybody got more info on him ? Made me laugh when they said they had a lead of 38 minutes and Tim Miles would drive into the pits and ask for a glass of water, or to check the fan-belt whilst the engine is still running
A very good nights entertainment
Regards John S
The Zanardi documentry was ok. You have to give Zanardi full respect for his full recovery...and in 3 months too.
The Land speed record documentry, was the one I enjoyed the most. Art Arfonz is a legend. See the 'workshop' full of aircraft engines was amazing. I enjoyed it where they talked to all the old chaps (all in their 60'a/70's). I laughed when they chatted to one of the old chaps, and he had a motorbike in the lounge and he showed his bedroom, full of car pics/parts chequer flag decoration and old PC's. I thought to myself....yes, a typical piston headers bachelor pad
Was also good, watching and hearing the accounts of the record runs and failures too, and why they failed. The Cobra documentry was also good too. I would of thought they would of had more interviews of Carole Shelby himself....but I am glad that the documentry focused more on the car and team. I hadn't heard of Tim Miles before, but he seems to of been a very good technical driver and a character that stood out from the crowd. Anybody got more info on him ? Made me laugh when they said they had a lead of 38 minutes and Tim Miles would drive into the pits and ask for a glass of water, or to check the fan-belt whilst the engine is still running
A very good nights entertainment
Regards John S
Can I hust say - it's "would HAVE" not "would of".
Sorry, this is a real bugbear with me.
The Ferrari/Cobra war documentary was shown a year or so ago on BBC2. Although it was interesting, it was extremely misleading in implying that the Cobra's won at Le Mans - they only won their class. The real story should have been about the Ferrari/Ford war and the development of the Lola GT and Ford GT40.
Sorry, this is a real bugbear with me.
The Ferrari/Cobra war documentary was shown a year or so ago on BBC2. Although it was interesting, it was extremely misleading in implying that the Cobra's won at Le Mans - they only won their class. The real story should have been about the Ferrari/Ford war and the development of the Lola GT and Ford GT40.
Eric Mc said:
Can I hust say - it's "would HAVE" not "would of".
Sorry, this is a real bugbear with me.
The Ferrari/Cobra war documentary was shown a year or so ago on BBC2. Although it was interesting, it was extremely misleading in implying that the Cobra's won at Le Mans - they only won their class. The real story should have been about the Ferrari/Ford war and the development of the Lola GT and Ford GT40.
Can I just say - its "just say" and not "hust say".
Sorry, but this is a real bugbear with me when someone corrects another person's use of the English language when their own needs a little polishing too!
>> Edited by midgster on Thursday 6th January 10:45
midgster said:
Can I hust say - it's "would HAVE" not "would of".
Sorry, this is a real bugbear with me.
The Ferrari/Cobra war documentary was shown a year or so ago on BBC2. Although it was interesting, it was extremely misleading in implying that the Cobra's won at Le Mans - they only won their class. The real story should have been about the Ferrari/Ford war and the development of the Lola GT and Ford GT40.
Can I just say - its "just say" and not "hust say".
Sorry, but this is a real bugbear with me when someone corrects another person's use of the English when their own needs a little polishing too!
midgster said:
Can I hust say - it's "would HAVE" not "would of".
Sorry, this is a real bugbear with me.
The Ferrari/Cobra war documentary was shown a year or so ago on BBC2. Although it was interesting, it was extremely misleading in implying that the Cobra's won at Le Mans - they only won their class. The real story should have been about the Ferrari/Ford war and the development of the Lola GT and Ford GT40.
Can I just say - its "just say" and not "hust say".
Sorry, but this is a real bugbear with me when someone corrects another person's use of the English when their own needs a little polishing too!
Live by the sword, die by the sword
however, I have to admit that my favourite car shown was the Shelby American Cobra Coupe oh baby 
The land speed record programme was brilliant. I'd never heard of Art Arfons before, but now I'm just
in admiration of what they did in essentially a large home workshop with no massive corporation behind him. Some of the programmes are repeated today and/or tomorrow as well, worth catching if you missed it.
tw99 said:
The land speed record programme was brilliant. I'd never heard of Art Arfons before, but now I'm just
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