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greg
United Kingdom
833 Posts |
 Posted - 12/08/2012 : 21:18:09
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| Who car was in the Olympic ceremony only just caught it. Was it a p type |
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greg
United Kingdom
833 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2012 : 21:29:07
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| Could have been a t type I only saw it quickly. There was mg a mg b triumph tr4, early mini. Rolls 20 25 frogeyed sprite didn't expect that |
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Peter Green
United Kingdom
1682 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 00:37:29
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Greg,
It looked like a T type to me.
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George Eagle
United Kingdom
3240 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 10:20:00
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Greg
I also think the car was a T type.
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1487 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 10:23:04
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Yes, it was definitely a T Type. At a guess, a TC. Also saw the MGA (covered in newspaper, for some reason which escaped me), and an MGB. Full marks to the organiser for getting his (or her) priorities right.
Turned off when Queen came on. They were pretty awful when they were in their prime !
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13/08/2012 : 12:35:21
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Originally posted by Colin Butchers
Turned off when Queen came on. They were pretty awful when they were in their prime !
Now, now, Colin, you're really showing your age with a comment like this  |
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Rodney Collins
United Kingdom
424 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 14:46:42
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Come on Colin Queen rubish!! Did you ever go and see them! True Brian May should do some thing with his hair but at least he dose not try and sing! Paul Macartney now there is rubish! He gets dragged out of his coffin on every big occasion and for what to sing a few bars of a song that he can no long sing (not that he ever could) and John lennon probebly wrote it anyway! After hearing him try to sing at the opening I almost felt sorry for Heather!!
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Rodney Collins
United Kingdom
424 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 14:47:46
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PS it was a TC!!
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tonym
United Kingdom
653 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 16:23:15
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Interestingly, did anyone notice that all the registration plates were covered over?
I'll go for TC as well
It must have been a very interesting experience to drive your car round the Olympic stadium at the closing ceremony.
As for Queen - It's a good job my missus doesn't read this forum - she would be most distressed at the comments. You must remember that one vital element of the group is missing.
Agree about Paul Macartney's act - dreadful |
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JMH
United Kingdom
911 Posts |
Posted - 13/08/2012 : 18:50:45
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It was very telling that the biggest audience reaction/participation was for a hologram of a bloke who had been dead for more than 20 years, you wouldn't get that from today's crop of "talent"! Almost laughed out loud when a Spice Girl nearly fell of the roof of the taxi though.
I also thought there was an MGF in with all the cars (or don't they count)?
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/08/2012 : 10:34:21
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Oh dear ! I seem to have put one foot firmly in the dung-heap ! As to your aspersions to my great age Simon, I am afraid that you are right. I have been gradually turning in to a GOF for the last 20 years. For the benefit of our American cousins, that doesn't mean "Gathering of the Faithful", but "Grumpy Old Fart". In defence, I can honestly say that when Queen and the late FM were in their zenith, I was but a mere slip of a lad, and thought that they were pretty awful then. Oh dear, there goes the other foot.
My own taste in music - especially guitar music, was formed in the mid 50s when I began listening to such people as Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Byrd, Tal Farlow and Philip Catherine. And even Eric Clapton. All of them brilliant technicians without the pretentiousness of others who shall remain nameless. Sorry guys (and your wives), but there it is.
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6131 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2012 : 12:28:50
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Originally posted by Colin Butchers
And even Eric Clapton.
And even? Oh dear, Colin, there really is no hope for you!  |
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McEvoy
United Kingdom
252 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2012 : 16:25:19
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Colin don't worry about ascending to the great heights of GOF for at least the old part gives something that cannot be bought i.e. experience and therefore the ability to compare and like you my musical interests were formed in the 50s with people like Djanjo Reinhardt, and the big bands of the 30s & 40s. Makes me smile when I hear talk of modern 3 or 4 person groups being refered to as a band.
Keep jumping in with both feet Colin, makes the Forum interesting,
informative and entertaining more than I can say for the Closing Ceremony.
McEvoy
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Bob Stringfield
United Kingdom
854 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2012 : 17:04:36
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spitfire
United Kingdom
371 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2012 : 21:15:19
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The link with the cars and bands was that they were massive sellers globally. Never caught a shot of the MGA unwrapped. There was a yellow BGT. Was there no E type Jaguar?
Django with two fingers could play better than Brian May. Although to support the Queen devotees. They seized on what audiences reacted to and literally play to (wrote for) the crowd. I worked with a record producer who owned land in central Cornwall early 1970s. He knew both David Bowie and what became Queen and they played at open air gigs he put on in the summer. "Queen" backing Bowie.. |
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