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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 16, 2009 15:31:30 GMT 12
www.stuff.co.nz/4848472a1860.htmlTop Gear trio suffer chopper trouble Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 15 February 2009 Hit UK TV show stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, and their Kiwi sidekick, V8s racing legend Greg Murphy, had a helicopter flight turned back by birdstrike around lunchtime on Friday. And that evening, at Auckland's ASB showgrounds, Murphy damaged the motor on a supercar during a speed demo. The trio, who have been staying at the Skycity Grand Hotel, took off from Auckland's Mechanics Bay in a Heliflight chopper, only to turn around and head back to base after a few hundred metres. "They all piled into the chopper and took off over the harbour heading towards North Head," a source told Sunday News. "They hadn't even got halfway across the water before they stopped, hovered, turned around and came back. They were only in the air for about a minute. "When they got back the pilot and a couple of engineers came out and were having a look at one of the rotors. They spent about 10 minutes sorting it out, and took off again, headed north." Heliflight CEO Andy McKay, who was flying the chopper, said it "clipped a seagull, but that's not uncommon down there". McKay said the trio "were pretty knackered from doing their shows in Sydney and Auckland" but were "a joke a minute" and "laughing the whole time". McKay said he took the stars to Russell, where they had lunch. "They were absolutely stunned and amazed with the scenery of Auckland and what they saw."
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 16, 2009 15:32:35 GMT 12
My mate Mike went up to see their show on Sunday and said it was awesome and very entertaining.
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Post by baz62 on Feb 17, 2009 9:42:52 GMT 12
Glad it didn't go badly. Hate to be known as the country that killed Top Gear!! Saw the start of the new season on Sunday. Near wet myself with laughter when the car came out the back of the Hamster's truck!!! ;D (For thos who didn't see it they were racing trucks with loads in the back. Hamster had an unsecured car in the back of his!
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Post by Naki on Feb 17, 2009 9:51:08 GMT 12
I was lucky enough to work back stage on Top gear Live on Sunday - met Clarkson and co - got his autograph etc ..sat in some of the "cool wall" cars (Porsche, Lamborghini, Aston Matin etc) and dreamed..also Murphs Commodore (580Kw!) and Clarkson's AMG Merc (the car he used on stage) The whole operation is quite huge - and its not very galmourous backstage....
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Post by philip on Feb 17, 2009 9:58:25 GMT 12
I went to the show on friday night and enjoyed it immensely. I've never really watched the TV shows but get the gist of it. I love the quotes like
"I'm sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.
· About the Porsche Cayman S: "There are many things I'd rather be doing than driving it, including waiting for Bernard Manning to come off stage in a sweaty nightclub, and then licking his back clean"
· "... the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany"
· Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster: "It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom"
· "The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite"
· "The air conditioning in a Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw."
· "Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what... BEING STABBED?"
· "The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler
· "This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying 'Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.'"
· On the Mercedes CLs55: "Braking in this car is so brutal, it would be less painful to actually hit the tree you were trying to miss."
· "I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"
· Clarkson's highway code on cyclists: "Trespassers in the motorcars domain, they do not pay road tax and therefore have no right to be on the road, some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong."
· "I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off. What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating ninny'."
· "Britain's nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe...probably because they don't have wheel-chair access."
· "If we are being honest HIV is a pathetic virus, it can only live in the air for 6 seconds and it does what Ebola does to you in 10 days in 10 years."
· On Mandela's claim that Cuba is a good advert for democracy: "Well Mr Mandela why don't you go and ask one of the 12 year old Cuban prostitutes which way her parents voted?"
· "Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show......so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!"
· On the Lotus Elise: "This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory."
· "Now as you can see I lost the battle to have two engines on the back because of three very important reasons. One - weight. This is 600 Lbs and that's the same as having a whole American sitting on the tailgate..."
· "In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was."
· "I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animals duty to be on my plate at supper time."
· "There are footballers wives that would be happy with this quality of stitching... on their face."
· "Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face."
· "Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under her tweed pants. I do, and it helps."
· "You can't have this car with a diesel, its like saying, I won't go to Stringfellows tonight, I'll get my mum to give me a lapdance, she's a woman!"
· "Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sports car... in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President."
· On the Porsche Cayenne: "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis."
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 17, 2009 13:51:46 GMT 12
the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany Don't want to be pedantic and call them wrong, but that was in 1938.
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Post by FlyNavy on Feb 17, 2009 14:13:10 GMT 12
Clarkson and crew are a hoot. ;D Funniest comedy show on TV - ever. And it has cars.
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Post by baz62 on Feb 17, 2009 14:36:32 GMT 12
Clarkson and crew are a hoot. ;D Funniest comedy show on TV - ever. And it has cars. Yeah and sometimes aeroplanes!
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Feb 17, 2009 20:11:57 GMT 12
Glad it didn't go badly. Hate to be known as the country that killed Top Gear!! Saw the start of the new season on Sunday. Near wet myself with laughter when the car came out the back of the Hamster's truck!!! ;D (For thos who didn't see it they were racing trucks with loads in the back. Hamster had an unsecured car in the back of his! Clarkson's truck turning up at the finish line with a raging inferno at the back made me practically fall on the floor in laughter. ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 17, 2009 20:58:07 GMT 12
Yes, it's a great series this one. I have seen five of the episodes already, but well worth watching again.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Apr 27, 2015 14:23:12 GMT 12
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Post by nzjet on Apr 27, 2015 14:52:49 GMT 12
Wow another thread back from the dead.
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Post by baronbeeza on Jun 8, 2015 14:35:27 GMT 12
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