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Cars That Rock...Brian Johnson.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:24 am    Post subject: Cars That Rock...Brian Johnson. Reply with quote

A great programme , made all the better with a die hard petrol head as the front man.
He has a good manner with people through all walks of live...my son.



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brilliant series.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Agreed it was a good watch in the main, plus he's a genuine enthusiast which helps. I could have lived without the "gentleman's vegetables" type comments, tends to cheapen a programme IMO otherwise good stuff.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Come come Rick ..you would not want Brian Sewell as the holy than holy frontman.

Brian Johnson is a down to earth Geordie, also in a band called AC DC ( not the Osmonds ) I think he was quite tame.

Now on the other hand could you imagine Ossy Osborne fronting the show.

There would be more bleeps than commentary.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gresham flyer wrote:
Come come Rick ..you would not want Brian Sewell as the holy than holy frontman.
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Possibly not, but why the need for smutty innuendos? - I just don't get it, it doesn't add anything. I guess I prefer the Raymond Baxter approach to presenting, but in a world of Graham Nortons I suppose Brian was quite restrained Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, great stuff and very interesting.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wish we got it over here! heh.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried to watch it this afternoon as a 'come down' after immersing myself in the LM 24hrs since yesterday. I forced myself to sit through the first programme (Bugatti) but gave up part way through the second (Lamborghini). Whether he was reading from a script, giving a piece to camera or interviewing someone he just annoyed me. I don't think it was his voice, accent or delivery, it was the whole lot combined; it just grated. Maybe I was simply tired after being awake since the small hours.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They're just advertorials IMO. I can't watch them, but modern cars don't do much for me. Who needs a 200mph car to sit in a queue at 37mph, six cars back from a retard in a Pious or a Micra, which is Gloucestershire these days. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, so just new stuff. I was hoping it was older. Oh well.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not just new stuff: Bugatti type 35, Lamborghini Miura featured today.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only programme I've seen was one about 8 litre bentley. Brian knows what he was talking about as he has a vintage Bentley, I think a 3 litre. Uses it as an every day car.
I like him. I like AC/DC too
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

petermeachem wrote:
The only programme I've seen was one about 8 litre bentley. Brian knows what he was talking about as he has a vintage Bentley, I think a 3 litre. Uses it as an every day car.
I like him. I like AC/DC too


I believe his is a 4.5 litre Bentley and I agree with you that he's a lovely bloke in a superb band, but he skimps over the old stuff to eulogise over daft moderns. Mind you, you can get one of the 200mph Bentleys for under £30K now if you're feeling reckless, or a Shadow for peanuts. There's a reason though. Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps we would not like anyone on this forum fronting a classic car show.

This forum would be overheating with complaints.

Whoever it is, whatever it is ...to some it is just not cricket.

Next you will say John Arlott was rubbish.!!!

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John who...?
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