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Comedians in cars getting coffee - 67 BJ8

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Comparing a ride in a Healey to being dragged along in a tin bath is closer to the truth than any of us would probably admit! :lol: Great stuff Loved it especially the subtitles so we can understand the English

Thanks for posting Ausmhly and Happy Birthday. :cheers:
 
Toward the beginning of the film clip when they were revving the Healey, You'll notice how they were filming the interior at the same time and if you noticed, the tach wasn't moving at all.

I then thought, "Hey, that's just like mine."* (I already felt at home with this clip). And not to mention how I would go to Starbucks for coffee from time to time in it.

BTW, I know most of the New York streets and the FDR they were driving on. The Healey suspension is definitely getting a good workout. I certainly would never drive mine there, unless my life depended on it. Horrible roads there.

Again, BTW - Was it ever made clear that this Healey belongs to Seinfeld, or is he borrowing it?



*(FWIW - Not to side track, but eventually and with any luck, I hope to have the advantage of getting my tach going again, now with the knowledge needed to fix, thanks to the folks here on the Forum). To be continued.

Paul
 
This is what I get for walking out of the movies before the credits are finished I miss the best stuff that way The car is for sale by Aventura Motors in Southampton, NY with a $79,000 asking price. Here's the web ad:

https://www.aventuramotors.com/site/index.php?route=product/product&path=60_67&product_id=67

and a vid:
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Hey Roger,
Thanks for posting that! It started my Saturday off with some good laughs! Oh, and now I am going to go drive my tin death machine, because it looked like they were having so much fun.

Lin
 
Jerry Seinfeld is a huge car guy, with an enormous collection. Even if the car isn't his, the fact that he chose it for this bit is a compliment to Austin Healeys everywhere. Funny stuff.
Randy
 
Hey Roger,
Good stuff and knowing Seinfield is a huge car guy - supposed to have one of the biggest Porsche collections around) , makes it even funnier. Wonder if he has a Healey in addition to the Porsches ?
Regards,
Mike
 
Rick, thanks for posting that. As the BJ8 Registrar trying to distinguish one car from another, it's frustrating to me when Seinfeld doesn't say to Gervais: "Let's take HBJ8L/37052 on a dangerous highway to get some coffee." :cry:

Aventura has had the car for sale at least since June 2011.
No previous history of any owner recorded.
 
Should have strapped that brit in a 100 and watch him squeel.

Not diggen the wheels and tires sticking out of the wheel wells..
Sent clip to all my friends for a laugh!!

Pete
 
From a Reddit conversation with Jerry Seinfeld yesterday:

[–]twinmum 1564 points 19 hours ago
hello jerry, was Ricky Gervais genuinely scared/scarred when he was on Comedian in Cars Getting Coffee?




[–]_Seinfeld[S] 2325 points 19 hours ago
A lot of people ask this. And yes, he was absolutely genuinely terrified by that car. Check it out - I took him for a drive in an Austin Healey 3000, which is a very unsafe old car, and he did not like it. It was one of my first episodes but it's a classic, because he kept asking me - and the more scared he got, the more it made me laugh, and it's a good one. https://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/ricky-gervais-mad-man-in-a-death-machine
 
Roger,

Very enjoyable clip. It would have been even funnier watching them experiencing the conditions on a top-down drive (with windshield folded) in a 100/4, as it begins to rain. The humor would be to watch there reaction as they realize that there is no way to stay dry.

Good laugh,
Ray (64BJ8P1)
 
Hey guys

Isn't it law that you should always use a seat belt over on your side of the pond? Unless my eyesight is going, there was a distinct absence of belts, or can you get away with lap straps?

:cheers:

Bob
 
Bob Hughes said:
Hey guys

Isn't it law that you should always use a seat belt over on your side of the pond? Unless my eyesight is going, there was a distinct absence of belts, or can you get away with lap straps?

:cheers:
Bob
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In most states, we're not required to retrofit or use lap or shoulder belts to cars that weren't originally equipped with them.
 
IMHO, Gervais is faux-scared.

He's riffing on being a hip modern urban-kinda guy and being scared of this crazy stuff which the geezers, in their ignorance, did back in the day, and which he, in is wisdom, and his dressed-in-black-or-gray modernity, can look down on, through his shades, of course.
 
steveg said:
IMHO, Gervais is faux-scared.

He's riffing on being a hip modern urban-kinda guy and being scared of this crazy stuff which the geezers, in their ignorance, did back in the day, and which he, in is wisdom, and his dressed-in-black-or-gray modernity, can look down on, through his shades, of course.
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OK, I volunteer to give him a Healey ride that would be really scary. :devilgrin: And if he's back in the UK, perhaps Frankenhealey could do the honors.
 
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