On Today's Car TV
A new show on the DISCOVERY cable channel - "Top Gear" - a British show about cars...
Between segments they have a studio audience... strange...
Today's (first) episode...
Host No. 1 takes a Ford GT (A modern version of a late 60's Ford GT 40) out for a spin (Top speed 212mph - $200,00+). He apparently was waiting for his (one of 28 available in Britain this year) to show up.
Host No. 2 - takes us through his adventure in buying a Dodge Charger (the real thing from the 60's)
Sister Wendy... she always wanted to drive a Monster Truck... so they let her take one out for a spin.
Host No. 1 - Let's take a huge Land Rover Discovery up a mountain in Scotland (that no one has ever driven up) to see if it is really off-road. Up-hill? No problem? Back down the mountain... he got stuck in some soft ground (no place/tree to hook his winch to to pull him out) and had to call for help. And again...
Not a bad looking vehicle...in a color other than silver... but the Land Rover Defender is
the one that looks like a "classic" Land Rover... I wonder if they are available in the US?
(Does it come in yellow? I have my reasons :-))
Classic movie stunt... for real -- parachute out of a small plane (a Cessna) into a Mercedes convertible (SLK?) while it is actually moving. I'm not sure how many times they tried to get it right but it took a while...
Granny donut school - several older women ( in their 70's/80's) out for a spin in a small (yellow) Acura (or is that a Honda?) convertible. I can't believe they encourage that kind of behavior...
These are all right-hand-drive cars/trucks...
I don't think this was from a single show... I think whomever packaged it up for DISCOVERY cherry-picked segments from a whole bunch of original episodes. But it looks cool anyway...
10:33:05 PM 
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