bantambunny

Cheers guys, i've been working outside in the wind and rain, against the light so nice to finally have a garage to work in :D Plus it's the first time i've had the car and engine in the same place at the same time, 80 mile round trip every time i wanted to work on the engine up until now :(

You're more than welcome buddy :D

You haven't seen the garden or driveway yet, room for 10 cars easily! At least we've sorted out the venue for the next midlands zed meet :rofl:

Just finished moving the zed and its engine in this afternoon, just my bed and desk etc to do tomorrow and i'm finished :D Good to know i have my priorities right eh? :rofl: (sorry for the crap quality, haven't had time to stop all day so quickly grabbed a couple of shots) The first 6.3 litre mid engined metro in the uk :rofl:

It's the one that attacked clarkson :rofl: [YOUTUBE]Msp9bcS3Ows[/YOUTUBE]

No stig unfortunately quite alot of it was pre recorded unfortunately this time but still a great day :D

lol, 68 years according to the researcher :rofl: Keep your eyes peeled for mr bunny behind the tv in the news section about 3-4 rows back. I'm the tallest guy in the studio so should be pretty easy to spot :rofl:

I don't think it was a staff members car, they take you a bit of a weird route from the entrance past all the different business units but that was right next to the studio itself so who knows lol Nope, i was looking round for cars from the previous episodes but there was only the lancaster and hammond's car. The only other one i saw parked there was the SLR Sterling Moss edition but that's another story.... :x: :rofl: The day started with the guys coming up on stage and a woman fainting which clarkson took the piss saying it was understandable as alot of women faint when he comes on :rofl: Clarkson had to do the intro so hammond and may were taking bets on how many takes it would be and clarkson nailed it in one :rofl: Fair played to him and the rest they're pros at their job, no scripts, they just ad lib the whole show which is pretty amazing. They do sort of film the episode in the order that you would see it on the telly and they dim the lights and play the features as you'd see them. Loads of monitors all round and the sound isn't too bad. The top gear studios are actually alot more compact than you'd think and the place looks packed when in fact they just shuffle people around the various sections as they film them to make it look more full than it is. Clarkson did do a few retakes on the links but only because he messes around with the words a bit in fact one point he was asking the audience for ideas for an anology :D All three of them are sound when you meet them in the flesh, very humble and quite happy to talk. Little tip if you can wait till the sunday to see the features go outside for a ciggy (i don't smoke i might add) because may and clarkson go outside for one at that point and you can go and have a good one on one with them :) The advertising feature is hilarious and the white monaro bathurst you see in the background sounds superb (there is a bit more to that feature as well ;)) May fluffed the name of the new nissan they had in the studio a couple of times and made a comment that electricity doesn't exist at which point clarkson asked if there was an electrician in the audience and being the only electrician in the audience i dobbed my mate steve in :rofl: So cameras panned over to him (and supposedly me too lol) and off the cuff he gave the best explanation as to what electricity is and how it works to may. No idea if it'll make it to the show but the news section itself goes on for about 30 minutes they just cut it down to the funny bits. The cool wall is back for the last episode (maybe forever from what they were saying?) There was a hot lap from a luuuuuurvly car (maybe mentioned above) and another 7 litre V12 entered the studio which appears in the feature at the end with clarkons driving it. It was a really rough edit without any monologue over the top but beautifully shot. All in all a really interesting day and great to see how it all goes together, the guys are brilliant at their job and the whole thing is very slick :D Was a bit disappointed that Jay Leno wasn't actually in the studio for SIARPC (plus i'd positioned myself just behind the guest sofa!) but hey ho it was great to meet the guys in the flesh. I TOUCHED JAMES MAY - NOW WORSHIP ME!!!!!! :rofl:

Right so we have noone moaning its too late, does anyone fancy coming? Me and my bro haven't missed one yet: it's always the second tuesday of every month. Hundreds of really interesting cars turn up, £1 entry per car, there's a burger van, hog roast, real ale in the pub opposite etc This will be the last one i can get to because the silver zed is going off the road as its MOT expires and we're going to get all the bodywork done on it in the meantime. Until the V8 is finished I won't be able to get to any more :( 1) Bantambunny

Should be a good episode, some bits they showed us they still hadn't edited them together properly but the feature this week is very funny :D

Hammonds mustang and the lovely black thing from last week :D

I haven't put anything that'll give away what's on this weekend i'll leave that for you to wait for :D Apologies for the crap quality of the photos, they wouldn't allow SLRs in the studio so had to be crappy phone photos :( Top Gear studios where all the magic happens Lookie what i spotted! My favourite 2 cars :D Extremely accurate photo! "Would you like some prawn cocktail mr may?" - he does look very bored but was a really nice chap and happy to chat I might or might not be the stig....

Hehe just got back from the filming :D The car advert is hilarious :rofl: They'd pre recorded jay leno so didn't see him drive unfortunately :( Two very very nice cars on there though :D

Cheers buddy, just leaving now so i'll pop my writeup on here later when i get back :D

Cheers buddy and happy bday for the other day :D

Cheers buddy, i'll try my best but not sure what the security is like about taking piccies :)

Thank you :D Can't wait now it's like christmas :hyper: Bought a ticket? lol Nope you have to go on a waiting list which incidentally is 63 years long now :rofl: Luckily a mate rang me at 5pm tonight just as i was leaving work to say they had a spare ticket. My boss was still there so filled the form in and got the day off - phew! Setting off at 9am to get to my mates to go in in his stagea :dance:

...top gear being filmed tomorrow. Yes after 6 years of being on the waiting list i've finally got a ticket and i'm going to see the filming of the series finale, let's hope it's a good un :hyper:

Definately can't knock the guy for the quality of workmanship but never met him myself personally! As Pete says, great craftsmanship, maybe not the route i'd take lookswise or the colour but certainly different.

My mate used to play footy with them and my bro's band supported them before they became huge at The Shed in Leicester. Love the latest album, listened to it loads recently and saw them live at v last year (or could have been 2007) and they were great :D

I want to know why it's always the fat juicy ones that hit exactly the spot where you want to see the road through

FPMSL :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hi, what a nice, tidy zed you have! Welcome to the club :D

The word potential squirter comes to mind? :x:

RIP Harry and all of those who gave us what we take for granted today