Fastest Car

[cast iron]

anyone watched this Netflix American show pitting back yard dragsters against a Supercar, its all about the back story, strangely addictive and entertaining, I didn't know Nitrous Oxide was a bottle of really really cold air, and it seems doing drugs and stealing cars does pay, but not as much as buying land and taking photos.

[Rhett Turner - Black Country AO]

Yep watched some, but not for some time. yep it's quite a lot about the people, with some quite extreme characters.

Hyperdrive is another Netflix car show that was quite interesting, a sort of automotive ninja-warrior.

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

Watched the first series, there seems to be a lot of rich kids in borrowed Lamborghinis. 

[DIY-Si]

I started to watch it, then got fed up with the majority of the supermarket owners being so self-important and annoying that I stopped.

[Blatman]

Fastest cars are always from Hertz, Avis, Budget...  

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

They used to be Mk3 Cortinas with Bristol Street Motors stickers in the back window and a coat hanger dangling from the grab handle in the rear and sporting a clean white shirt blowing in the wind from the open driver's window al la  John Betjeman's 'Executive'

 

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Executive by John Betjeman

I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner;
I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.
In every roadside hostelry from here to Burgess Hill
The maоtres d'hфtel all know me well, and let me sign the bill.

You ask me what it is I do. Well, actually, you know,
I'm partly a liaison man, and partly P.R.O.
Essentially, I integrate the current export drive
And basically I'm viable from ten o'clock till five.

For vital off-the-record work - that's talking transport-wise -
I've a scarlet Aston-Martin - and does she go? She flies!
Pedestrians and dogs and cats, we mark them down for slaughter.
I also own a speedboat which has never touched the water.

She's built of fibre-glass, of course. I call her 'Mandy Jane'
After a bird I used to know - No soda, please, just plain -
And how did I acquire her? Well, to tell you about that
And to put you in the picture, I must wear my other hat.

I do some mild developing. The sort of place I need
Is a quiet country market town that's rather run to seed
A luncheon and a drink or two, a little savoir faire -
I fix the Planning Officer, the Town Clerk and the Mayor.

And if some Preservationist attempts to interfere
A 'dangerous structure' notice from the Borough Engineer
Will settle any buildings that are standing in our way -
The modern style, sir, with respect, has really come to stay.