Club Arnage
Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rhino on October 28, 2003, 02:54:58 pm
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Watch speed machines on monday 3rd november, it has the battle between Bentley and mercedes.
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Record this show and send me please..... :-[
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What channel please?
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Oh yes, that will be channel 4.
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errr... and a time? (I should have asked last post!)
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Don't you get newspapers up your way?? :)
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Nah, there are all hype and political bullshit, along with an unhealthy dose of misinforming and scare-mongering from some.
Anyway, I'll check the C4 site ;D
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Look i had a couple of jars of ale before posting the first post' so it,s monday the 3rd of november at 8pm on channel 4.
And typically i shall be starting a week of nights away from home so hopefully it will be recorded for me to watch on the saturday when i get back!!!!
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Well done Rhino, thanks for the infomation.
Top man ;D
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Cheers Rhino, saved me a trip to Ch 4 site and a few clicks wear on my mouse! ;D
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Look i had a couple of jars of ale before posting the first post' so it,s monday the 3rd of november at 8pm on channel 4.
And typically i shall be starting a week of nights away from home so hopefully it will be recorded for me to watch on the saturday when i get back!!!!
Damn right, now get to work.......... ;)
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yes boss, sorry boss.
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Gilles
I will record it for you and bring it to LeMans next weekend.I also have another video for you!!
PM
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Oh yeah other video!
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Swedish art movie? :P ;D ;)
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Or the Irish sex instruction video, in out repeat as necessary.
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Didn't know the Swedes were into art ;)
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Was a great show, thanks for teh "heads up"
I remember some years ago Rowan Atkinson doing a dramatisation on one of the Bentley Boys (Birkin?) On BBC2 if I remember correctly - anyone else have vague reollection of it?
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Mark,it was about Tim Birkin, and very good it was to.
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Yep Rowan played Tim. The story was some wot marred by the fact that Brooklands, Le Mans and the French GP (Riems wsent it) were all filmed from the same point at the same airfiled with the same cars.
All that lot deseve a film about them, but I guess if one was made today it would be full of American actors. Sly as "Babe" Bruce Willis as "Tim" Clint Eastwood as WO ....... Any other offers?????
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I thought Barnato's daughter looked very like Rick! ;)
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thats a worry Andy :o Least I will know what to look out for next June! Saw her Barnettos daughter at Brooklands Reunion when all the Bentleys came to play.
Great footage of old LM. Mind you would not like to tryed to over take........ Birken did one of his fastest laps overtaking the Merc' with two wheels on the grass :o
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thats a worry Andy :o Least I will know what to look out for next June! Saw her Barnettos daughter at Brooklands Reunion when all the Bentleys came to play.
Great footage of old LM. Mind you would not like to tryed to over take........ Birken did one of his fastest laps overtaking the Merc' with two wheels on the grass :o
Has anyone else seen the footage of the huge highspeed car that launched itself off the banking and into the trees and general Weybridge countryside? The commentator is dead pan and says something like "Binky Clutterbuck had a prang on the fourth lap", as they were picking arms and legs out of the trees and wrapping them up in a blanket.
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Not seen the footage, but have seen some photos somewere, and I should know the answer to this. I think it was a Bentley and the driver one of the Bentley Boys - not Birkin he deid from blood poisoning after the Tripolli GP - its going to bug me all night now >:(
help!!!!
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Has anyone else seen the footage of the huge highspeed car that launched itself off the banking and into the trees and general Weybridge countryside? The commentator is dead pan and says something like "Binky Clutterbuck had a prang on the fourth lap", as they were picking arms and legs out of the trees and wrapping them up in a blanket.
I far as I can remember, a few cars have vaulted the Members Banking or ended up in the River Wey.
I recall that one of Count Louis Zaborowski's 'Chitty Bang Bang' aero engined monsters went flying over the top once.
One of his later aero engined cars was subsequently bought by Parry Thomas, modified and renamed 'Babs'.
Babs ran successfully at Brooklands but subsequently attained notoriety on Pendine Sands in Wales on a Land Speed Record attempt. In short, the car crashed and killed (rather gruesomely) Parry Thomas.
Babs was buried in the sand for about 50 years before being being dug out and restored to running order. The car is certainly a monster, and makes occasional reappearances at Brooklands, along with the aero engined Napier Railton (but that's another story..............)