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Old 15-03-2009, 06:58   #1
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OLD Top Gear / Motorfair '89 (Rover 200 launch)

Apologies if this has been found before, but this site has complete episodes of OLD Top Gear. This one is the Motorfair '89 episode, when Rover launched the 214 and 216 models.

For other episodes, just put in Top Gear 1990 or any other year (I got some up for 1986 too).

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/T...989_207182.htm

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Thanks for posting that.

It also features my good friend Sue Baker
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Thanks for posting that.

It also features my good friend Sue Baker

Ooh, struck gold there, you know her of old or recent...? There's loads more complete episodes, can just about remember William Woollard on late 80's Top Gear with his infamous "drive safely" phrase ending show.... Whatever happened to him?

I miss old Top Gear, especially Quentin Willson at the auctions, though suppose Fifth Gear caters that angle....
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Ooh, struck gold there, you know her of old or recent...? There's loads more complete episodes, can just about remember William Woollard on late 80's Top Gear with his infamous "drive safely" phrase ending show.... Whatever happened to him?

I miss old Top Gear, especially Quentin Willson at the auctions, though suppose Fifth Gear caters that angle....
I never bothered to watch it until JC turned up. It was sooooo boring like a visual Autocar, well meaning and pulling every punch. I don't think these programmes did the Brit car industry any good as they always lied about the faults until nobody believed a word they said.

I know Woollard lost his shirt at Lloyds when there was that problem when the 'names' had to stump up fortunes to cover loses. I suspect he's long retired.
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Ooh, struck gold there, you know her of old or recent...? There's loads more complete episodes, can just about remember William Woollard on late 80's Top Gear with his infamous "drive safely" phrase ending show.... Whatever happened to him?

I miss old Top Gear, especially Quentin Willson at the auctions, though suppose Fifth Gear caters that angle....
I know Sue Baker now, she works for me
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I never bothered to watch it until JC turned up. It was sooooo boring like a visual Autocar, well meaning and pulling every punch. I don't think these programmes did the Brit car industry any good as they always lied about the faults until nobody believed a word they said.

I know Woollard lost his shirt at Lloyds when there was that problem when the 'names' had to stump up fortunes to cover loses. I suspect he's long retired.
William Woollard is in his 70's now, but Chris Goffey is still in the industry, but writing these days.
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Here's Chris Goffey testing the 200
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I really enjoyed watching that, don't get me wrong I like the current Top Gear and have probably seen each episode several times thanks to Dave, however the constant mucking about and obviously staged antics do get a bit samey after a while. POWER

Nice to see a show with cars the average man on the street can afford and would therefore possibly appreciate the information and test drives all the more ?

PS. If I was after car advice I'd pick Chris Goffey over Clarkson any day of the week.
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I really enjoyed watching that, don't get me wrong I like the current Top Gear and have probably seen each episode several times thanks to Dave, however the constant mucking about and obviously staged antics do get a bit samey after a while. POWER

Nice to see a show with cars the average man on the street can afford and would therefore possibly appreciate the information and test drives all the more ?

PS. If I was after car advice I'd pick Chris Goffey over Clarkson any day of the week.
There's also one on youtube of Clarkson testing a Rover 800 back in the early 90's! Before he turned into a buffoon
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I've a suspicion that one of them passed on...?
Well Chris Goffey, William Wollard are still alive and well.

Sadly Frank Page suffered a stroke a few years ago and has been learning to speak, walk etc all over again.
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Wow - it's all changed since then for Top Gear hasn't it? Back then, they actually checked the car over and gave it a test drive before slagging it off, which Top Gear these days does all the time.
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Top Gear 1986

Here's a pre-Clarkson edition from 1986. The BMW on here is good spec for 23 years ago.... William Woollard, Chris Goffey, Sue Baker present...

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/T...e-1_205753.htm
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One more from exactly 10 years ago on 18 March 1999. This is the first re-launch of Top Gear, post-Clarkson leaving (before his subsequent 2002 return)....

It has the brand new ROVER 75 from the Geneva Motor Show '99.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/T...318_548566.htm
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One more from exactly 10 years ago on 18 March 1999. This is the first re-launch of Top Gear, post-Clarkson leaving (before his subsequent 2002 return)....

It has the brand new ROVER 75 from the Geneva Motor Show '99.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/T...318_548566.htm

Classic rover on this one, at about 7.08 in, the 75, rovers new chance at a car, has a number plate light out on its review

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I've just driven that same trip to Geneva that those pair did, funnily enough with Sue Baker

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