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Because I love touring and really it’s sweet to see a bunch of guys palling about, let’s have at with the very best of Clarkson and his f(r)iends.
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Head over heels in love :)
This is a classic
Aaron Fox
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Ah yes, the indestructible Toyota Helix.
Harrumph! You, Sir, are a Heathen! It is the Indestructible Toyota Hilux, not Helix! Harrumph Harrumph!
Seriously, though, one of my favorite Top Gear moments ever. Up there with this one...
Aaron Fox
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Blame auto-corrupt.
Although, if you like that then you might like The Great Northern Race which is the Vincent Black Shadow vs the Jaguar XK120 vs the LNER A1 Peppercorn 60163 Tornado... in a race to Edinburgh. The only real reasons that the car won is because the Tornado had all sorts of limitations on it and a commuter train...
Blame auto-corrupt.
Although, if you like that then you might like The Great Northern Race which is the Vincent Black Shadow vs the Jaguar XK120 vs the LNER A1 Peppercorn 60163 Tornado... in a race to Edinburgh. The only real reasons that the car won is because the Tornado had all sorts of limitations on it and a commuter train...
That is my second favorite episode.
I'll note that they originally wanted to use the Flying Scotsman for that bit, but couldn't due to her going into her huge overhaul.
BTW, Tornado is actually a *new build* locomotive, a LNER A1 Peppercorn updated to more modern standards (she has full safety electronics, for example).
Aaron Fox
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Yeah, and it was awesome... and it was so fucking close.
Wasn't it like 5 minutes? If that last damn commuter train hadn't come through Tornado *had* that race. Thing is, I think in a real sense Jeremy won that race, because he had by far the most fun on that trip.
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Oh, there is no question at all that Jeremy Clarkson had an enormously great deal of fun on the footplate the entire run to the north. To be honest, though it would soil my clothes something terrible and it's not all that ladylike, I would probably work the footplate of a steam engine if I could at least once, though I doubt I'd be anywhere near as effective as Clarkson.
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The toyota killing is really what put them on the map, I'd never heard of them before that first episode, by the time the final part aired everyone of my friends had seen clips, and man we had to work hard to pirate that show back then. The internet was so slow!
I think my favorite of all times bit though is this one where Clarkson explains what a supercar is supposed to be
I feel like plugging that on the basis of that success some insane people in the US are trying to fund a new construction PRR T1, they've made some real progress since I started following them a few years ago but fully expect this to take another 10 years.
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The British now have three or four other efforts going on for new build steam engines of classes that didn't get preserved.... mad men the lot of them.
I think my favorite of all times bit though is this one where Clarkson explains what a supercar is supposed to be
I feel like plugging that on the basis of that success some insane people in the US are trying to fund a new construction PRR T1, they've made some real progress since I started following them a few years ago but fully expect this to take another 10 years.
The T1 Trust
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The British now have three or four other efforts going on for new build steam engines of classes that didn't get preserved.... mad men the lot of them.
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@Sea Skimmer , @LordSunhawk , are you long lost brothers or something? (Context: @LordSunhawk also brought up the T1!)