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Fri 21 Aug 2009 11:53
Comedians Car - helicopter
'New Tricks' last night showed a successful stereotype of a 60's comedian ( Bernard Manning type ) in the present day leaving his huge detached house with his golf clubs .

He then proceeded to put them in the boot of a ....??? Not what I would expect such a person to drive

Clue - it was not a Rolls Royce or Jaguar....

...... A bit of Friday fun- take a guess ...


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Fri 21 Aug 2009 12:09
Comedians Car - Bill Payer
When I first saw it I thought it was going to get smashed up just to wind up the owners club (again). :)
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Fri 21 Aug 2009 12:29
Comedians Car - helicopter
It was too nice a colour to smash up - It was that Babypoo brown....
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Fri 21 Aug 2009 12:29
Comedians Car - bathtub tom
I quite fancied the1.8TC, very quick off the mark.
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Fri 21 Aug 2009 13:28
Comedians Car - Bill Payer
I quite fancied the1.8TC very quick off the mark.

The Police in Liverpool had loads them and got shut after 6mths as they were dangerous to drive at any speed.
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Fri 21 Aug 2009 15:43
Comedians Car - helicopter
It just didn't ring true with me that anyone would take a Marina in the Golf Club car park never mind one that colour.


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Fri 21 Aug 2009 18:06
Comedians Car - Bill Payer
The subtlety of these things is usually lost on me but I assumed the point was that the guy lived in Spain now and the car was another way of tying him (in the viewers mind) back to the 80's.
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Fri 21 Aug 2009 18:25
Comedians Car - Alby Back
I used to go to the Isle of Man on business some years ago. I would hire a car at Ronaldsway and bowl around the island for a couple of days. Usually they were Metros. Mmmm nice ( not ). But, as you do, I would always have a hurl round the TT circuit in whatever I had hired. One time the only thing they had was a Marina or maybe it was an Ital estate. Nearly disgraced myself a few times trying to hustle that bag of spanners to any respectable velocity. Frighteningly bad handling even by the standards of the day. I reckon it was only my courtesy to the fairies which saved my neck. ( the bridge fairies ! )..........
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