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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby dumper » Mon Dec 09, 2019 1:18 am

No but I have it recorded :D
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby ned » Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:05 am

Altransit wrote:Did anyone see tonight's program, where he reproduced the Steve McQueen motorcycle jump in the Great Escape :?:

Apart from the obvious achievement of getting the job done, all of the background information surrounding both the original escape, and the film version, was quite interesting 8)


Bollox forgot that was one, I'll be watching that tonight on 4 play or whatever it's called 8)
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby bambi mk 1 » Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:06 am

ned wrote:
Altransit wrote:Did anyone see tonight's program, where he reproduced the Steve McQueen motorcycle jump in the Great Escape :?:

Apart from the obvious achievement of getting the job done, all of the background information surrounding both the original escape, and the film version, was quite interesting 8)


Bollox forgot that was one, I'll be watching that tonight on 4 play or whatever it's called 8)

I seen it twice Ned ,last night and when it was being shot :mrgreen: :wink: :P
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby ned » Mon Dec 09, 2019 3:21 pm

bambi mk 1 wrote:
ned wrote:
Altransit wrote:Did anyone see tonight's program, where he reproduced the Steve McQueen motorcycle jump in the Great Escape :?:

Apart from the obvious achievement of getting the job done, all of the background information surrounding both the original escape, and the film version, was quite interesting 8)


Bollox forgot that was one, I'll be watching that tonight on 4 play or whatever it's called 8)

I seen it twice Ned ,last night and when it was being shot :mrgreen: :wink: :P


Was the second time when you were doing a moonshine run up north of the boarder :wink: :lol:
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby bambi mk 1 » Mon Dec 09, 2019 3:26 pm

Ned ,did you not know me and Punto have lots of friends in high places :lol:
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby ned » Mon Dec 09, 2019 6:14 pm

bambi mk 1 wrote:Ned ,did you not know me and Punto have lots of friends in high places :lol:


:shock: I only know people in low places and one of them keeps trying to kill me :lol:
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby Altransit » Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:04 pm

bambi mk 1 wrote:I seen it twice Ned ,last night and when it was being shot :mrgreen: :wink: :P

Did you meet John Leyton :?: I had never realised that he was an actor as well as a pop singer 8)
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby ned » Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:59 pm

Altransit wrote:Did anyone see tonight's program, where he reproduced the Steve McQueen motorcycle jump in the Great Escape :?:

Apart from the obvious achievement of getting the job done, all of the background information surrounding both the original escape, and the film version, was quite interesting 8)


I'm just watching it now on 4 play, the history of the pow camp is a eye opener, didn't know they had sport and theatre and the MI9 bit was interesting, a lot of history that most of us didn't even know about.
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby bambi mk 1 » Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:02 pm

Altransit wrote:
bambi mk 1 wrote:I seen it twice Ned ,last night and when it was being shot :mrgreen: :wink: :P

Did you meet John Leyton :?: I had never realised that he was an actor as well as a pop singer 8)

I was his stunt double Al :wink: :P
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby Altransit » Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:03 pm

ned wrote:I'm just watching it now on 4 play, the history of the pow camp is a eye opener, didn't know they had sport and theatre and the MI9 bit was interesting, a lot of history that most of us didn't even know about.

That's what I found, the place sounded almost as good as a sixties holiday camp, they received red cross parcels, and new uniforms (with maps sewn in) quite often.
I'm not sure that I would have bothered to leave, given the likelihood of being captured and shot :shock:
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby Altransit » Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:05 pm

bambi mk 1 wrote:I was his stunt double Al :wink: :P

:lol: For the singing, or the acting :?: :roll: :mrgreen:
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby bambi mk 1 » Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:07 pm

Altransit wrote:
bambi mk 1 wrote:I was his stunt double Al :wink: :P

:lol: For the singing, or the acting :?: :roll: :mrgreen:

Well you wouldnt get a note out of me if you banged me off a bell :wink: :P
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby ned » Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:46 pm

Altransit wrote:
ned wrote:I'm just watching it now on 4 play, the history of the pow camp is a eye opener, didn't know they had sport and theatre and the MI9 bit was interesting, a lot of history that most of us didn't even know about.

That's what I found, the place sounded almost as good as a sixties holiday camp, they received red cross parcels, and new uniforms (with maps sewn in) quite often.
I'm not sure that I would have bothered to leave, given the likelihood of being captured and shot :shock:


That's what I was thinking, why escape, they even got along with the guards, there must be some reason they took the risk of escape.
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby Altransit » Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:03 pm

ned wrote:That's what I was thinking, why escape, they even got along with the guards, there must be some reason they took the risk of escape.

They explained that; it was always impressed on servicemen that it was their duty to escape when captured, but the regulation actually stated that it was their duty to try and evade capture. There was no regulation compelling them to escape at all, it was all brainwashing.
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Re: Guy Martin, fastest van

Postby Mike » Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:05 pm

I enjoyed that, even with the history stuff. Hopefully he'll recreate one of Evil Knievel's failed jumps next :mrgreen:
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