MPH + Top Gear Live + Classic Car Show - 15th Nov 08

As a few of you will know. Me, Bex and Gavin (my possible to-be step brother) whet to this show which was booked by the rents for us.

We got to the show in the morning and got into the halls at opening time and had a look around the trade stands first before going into the car show.

If anyone hasn't been before then how it works is the avertising is done as MPH (Top Gear Live) Show which is on 1 Hall and contains Trade stands and the Studio for the Top Gear Show... then you can go into the Classic Car show which covered about 4-5 Halls... If you got tickets for the Classic Car show you couldn't go into the MPH.

We had VIP tickets for both shows so got special treatment.

Anyway, onto the point... after going through the trade stands we seen a Land Rover experience and decided to have a go... there was a queue of about 60 people which took us about 45mins to get to the front... it was then split up into just passanger and driver experience... so in other words you could get taken around 1/2 the circuit with a land rover driver or you could get that and also one of your group drive the other 1/2 instructed by the professional land rover instructor... we decided to wait and opted Bex to drive as 1. Shes a girl and 2. I have a super car experience day for next year anyway.

The pics below show the course. I will just add a comment that the instructors LOVED BECKY and that she was driving!!!

















A few sets of related images to show you what was there.



Classic Cars from one of the 5 Halls



These figures were amazing, made out of nuts, bolts and odd bits and pieces... I'm deffo going to be getting myself one when i can afford it... it anyone wants the details let me know.







Especially for Micky



Bex's favourite... she said she wants one!!!



Classic stand from the RPOC to RSOC.



Top Gear Live Show

This is where our VIP tickets really came into play as we got entrance to see Top Gear Live with the usual suspects and also backstage passes to see all the cars they use and the setup etc, as you will see shortly.

To start off with they used white Fiesta 's with neon lights on to do loads of stunts... they really did their job great!!! Wheres the mini's? I think the 's have taken their place p.s you might notice they are Zetec S wheels before anyone comments lol









Smart Car Football James was in the orange number 1 car and Richard in the white number 1 car... Jeremy was the ref... but then decided he wanted to play too





This was pretty funny with them all playing musical instruments... what was happening was supercars were coming out the back and driving past and they were having to talk about them whilst playing their instruments... They found this really hard but Jeremy just kept bashing his brum kit randomly



As usual... they had a Top Gear Challange... they had to pic something that was really slow... and make it faster... so they each picked a vehicle that they thought was really slow and then before hand prepared them and bought them out from the back. James had a milk float full of batteries that were far too heavy... Richard had an F1 caravan behind a Rover 200 and Jeremy a Horse that he couldn't see past when driving... was very very funny!!!










Once the show had finished we got to go back stage and look in the VIP area... was really good... I wanted to see if we could chat to any of the guys but unfortunatley it wasn't to be