Re: Drag

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:10:55 -0600, Brian Whatcott
<betwys1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is an entertaining series on BBC America TV channel called Top
Gear. (We get it on DirectTV sat)
It's usually about playing with expensive four wheel toys in the $100K
to $500K range: crossing Japan by Bullet train versus a top weight
Japanese muscle car, to name one example.

Top Gear is one of my two favorite shows!
If you get a chance to see the episode when Clarkson Hammond and May
create their own police cars from bog-standard saloons, do so, it is
hilarious! Personally my fav is the one Clarkson loses a race in a V8
Holden versus a 4-cylinder Ford Capri (old show).

Was the fox-hunt car Clarkson was driving, a BMW 4x4? I recall seeing
this show in London but not sure of the make of the car......

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Mandatory equine content: My bridle arrived today, as well as the
"stirrup extender" required with the 16.3hh horse!

Cheers, Jeff

But this time, Dylan rushed into the study to tell me to come see the
drag hunt. He had told me about it before. It obviously repeats, and
probably, repeats and repeats.
One of the presenters was towing a fox pee drag overland in the
country north of Gloucester, behind a sub-sub-compact - and doing a
pretty good job of it.
Another two of the presenters were mounted. One on a Brazilian - they
said. Lovely aerial shots of the chase. They ran the drag to ground in a
narrow stream, where the compact had finally hung up.
Lovely shots, with no burden of guilt (though I could see the tire
tracks in the green soft meadows.)

Brian W

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