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Jonathan Cadwallader · 15-09-2009, 08:17 PM

20 years ago, when Top Gear was a very different programme, they featured the 1989 REC Southport-Blackpool Rally. Someone has now made that edition available on the web. If your computer will take streaming video, 15 minutes into the programme is a 4 1/2 minute segment well worth a look.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Top-G...207182.htm

Jonathan.

Chairman · 15-09-2009, 10:06 PM

(15-09-2009 08:17 PM)Jonathan Cadwallader Wrote: 20 years ago, when Top Gear was a very different programme, they featured the 1989 REC Southport-Blackpool Rally. Someone has now made that edition available on the web. If your computer will take streaming video, 15 minutes into the programme is a 4 1/2 minute segment well worth a look.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Top-G...207182.htm

Jonathan.

Thanks for identifying this clip. Is 452 really "the only surviving Tiger Cub in the world"? I don't think so! Which one of our members told this porky to the presenter?
Ray

bigmick · 15-09-2009, 10:42 PM

Ray,is it not 412 on the clip. 452 was still in bits in 1989 (and we didn't put rivets through the badge)

Chairman · 16-09-2009, 07:57 AM

(15-09-2009 10:42 PM)bigmick Wrote: Ray,is it not 412 on the clip. 452 was still in bits in 1989 (and we didn't put rivets through the badge)

You're right. I realised after I'd put the entry on the site and I planned to correct it this morning. We didn't get 452 on the road until May 97 as I recall; our entry in 1989 was 2700 / 209 which was featured briefly. One thing that surprised me about the commentary was its accuracy, unusual in a TV programme - apart from the Tiger Cub reference of course.
Ray

Ian223 · 08-10-2009, 08:05 PM

(16-09-2009 07:57 AM)Chairman Wrote:
(15-09-2009 10:42 PM)bigmick Wrote: Ray,is it not 412 on the clip. 452 was still in bits in 1989 (and we didn't put rivets through the badge)

You're right. I realised after I'd put the entry on the site and I planned to correct it this morning. We didn't get 452 on the road until May 97 as I recall; our entry in 1989 was 2700 / 209 which was featured briefly. One thing that surprised me about the commentary was its accuracy, unusual in a TV programme - apart from the Tiger Cub reference of course.
Ray

The 1989 rally was the first I attended with the group and this was a few years before we got our hands on 2700 / 209, the entry that year being 1686. The Tiger Cub would probably have been 412 as 452 at that time was based at Crewe.

Ian