You've been googling...1.9CVH was the US version :p

Diesel was the 1.6 and 1.8 clatter bangers. :D

no, I had it my mind it was a 1.9.

but now you mention it, it was a 1.8. **** slow, anyway :D

Anyone remember that **** Jason Dawe?:mad:

hey! that's filmed at curborough, been there, done that! :D

right click save as

Was he the salad dodger on the newer format of TG?

If so, yes. A full weight tool.

For the record, Tiff did not 'bash Mansell off the track' at Donnington, and IMO was quite right to deny responsibility. In fact the clerk of the course adjudged the accident to be of Mansell's own making too!

Fuzzlip was driving like an accident waiting to happen all afternoon (a point to prove perhaps?), he lost control of his car whilst trying to go down Craners 20mph faster than even Tim Harvey thought was safe, and spun his mondeo into the embankment before the bridge. Poor old Tiff was just unable to avoid the wreckage as it pirouetted back across the circuit.

That apart, your synopsis of the old style Top Gear was bang on:thumb:

he did, I saw it on the telly!

Tiff was no great shakes, anyone remember when he took on a load of clubman racers in a corsa?? challenge or something, and made a complete balls of it, putting his car in the tryes at the first corner?

You make it sound as though Tim Harvey was a better driver than Mansell... :lol1:

Indeed, my gripe was with Tiff's attitude afterwards shrugging off complete responsibility when an former world champion lay unconscious in a tyre wall. He had the same level of ignorance in gentleman's conduct on the track as Herr Schumacher himself.

BTW, didn't Angela Ripon present it originally?

I dunno, I wasn't even born then :D

I wasn't asking you! :hjtwofing

Doubt it, that would of been back in the day, when it wasn't a crime to say wimmin couldn't drive.

The beeb would never have had a no-tail hosting a man's programme.

According to Wikipedia she did, but I don't remember much before 1980 ;)

Yes, her she is with William Woolard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/mo...340/angela.jpg

:lol1:

Lots of the crap old stuff is available on finalgear.com


Edit: Well they were, now only seems to go back to 2004 :wonder:

Oh yes he did - :nono: and I have video evidence, somewhere... <searches pockets..>

;)

He didn't last long on Top Gear did he? Guess his face just didn't fit. He now presents the Used Car Roadshow on Bravo and helps edit Used Car Buyer magazine. Both quite good actually :eek2:

Tim Harvey is seriously good in tin-tops. On occasions better than the Ferret.

I have the original BBC footage on video of Tiff punting off Nigel Mansell. I just need to work out how to get it into a computer file.

Right, I have uploaded the footage of Tiff helping Nigel crash. Its about 15mb. Right Click, Save as

Anyone see the original impreza road-test on TG...................?

What was the review?

Si.

They were the days :)

yep, mansell made a right balls of that. Looks very much in the clip like he had passed the point of no return when tiff clipped him.

You make it sound like Tiff was doing him a favour :lol1:

Seriously, was Tiff tuing in his radio or trying to find a Wuthers out of the glovebox whilst all that was happening in front of him? ;)

IIRC (and it is a long time ago) Raymond Baxter was the original presenter, he gave way to Noel Tidy Beard and then Wolly Willard.

Still can't remember the name of the woman presenter Sue...Sue...Sue :?:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k7fmK5U56DQ

LOL :D

Clarkson: "ARRGGGHH, we're dead, we're dead!!!!!"

Ns04

Tiff had a mk 1 classic at Bruntinthorpe (sp?) on the Alpine section IIRC. He liked it a lot and was very impressed with the performance per pound!

Unfortunately, I don't have the footage.

Ns04

as i can remember it was pretty dull . and clarkson had a perm :)