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Top Gear does older British Sports Cars

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Lat nght's broadcast (UK) of Top Gear looked at 3 older British sports cars- a '70s Jensen healey, an '80s TVR and a '90s Lotus Elan.

They drove from the Lotus test track where they'd put the cars through their paces, to the derelict Jensen factory in West Bromwich on the outskirts of Birmingham and then on to Blackpool and the derelict TVR factory. There they had a static display of many old LBC- Healeys, MGs, Triumphs, a Jag and a Daimler Dart...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj59

The segment starts about 19 minutes into the program, then there's a break and they restart with it at about 47 mintues. The static show starts about 59:20 right at the end.

Maybe not accessible for you people outside the UK... perhaps it'll show up on youtube soon.

And I think there's some clever way of fooling the site into thinki you're in the UK, too - maybe some of the IT boffins here can enlighten us all....

They were quite positive on the whole...
 
James
It almost brought a tear to my eye. It should serve as a warnig to the US Auto Industry. Watching TG has become a Sunday evening tradition. I down load the Rip from Final Gear at 1:00 PST and watch it in the evening. The cinematography of the show is the best of any show I've seen.

Paul

P.S.
If you need to know how to download I can walk someone through it.
 
What was the verdict on the Elan.
Did it look like this?
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Lets just say I've gone through monsoon thunder storms on a motorcycle and stayed dryer than the hamster in his elan with the top up. The gas station and hammer had me dying.

I loved how they tried to decapitate, blow up and drown the stig.
 
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