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Audition for Top Gear! - Twitchin Kitten - 07-17-2015
This is right up LK's alley!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/sllGCblzvlcy2Mg83y6YgG/search-for-a-top-gear-star?intc_type=promo&intc_location=orb_promo_footer&intc_campaign=topgear&intc_linkname=bbctwo_homepage
RE: Audition for Top Gear! - LKTraz - 07-18-2015
If it were the U.S. version I'd give it a shot.
RE: Audition for Top Gear! - Twitchin Kitten - 07-18-2015
The US version sucked. You film in the UK for a couple months and come home. I'd go for it if I had your knowledge. Those guys make a shit ton of money and they pay you in Pounds Sterling.
RE: Audition for Top Gear! - LKTraz - 07-18-2015
Yeah but I actually like my job regardless of the cash value of doing Top Gear. Unless I had a solid guarantee of enough that I would never have to work again it's not worth the gamble.
Yeah I know....nothing ventured, nothing gained but, I'm just a bit too old for that philosophy. The potential vs the known loss just doesn't balance and since 60 is just a short block away in my journey...........
Besides that.......I'm not the HUMOUNGOUS gearhead they seek. I'm way better on classic muscle and nitro munching, fire breathing monsters than I am on euro exotics and road course nimble machinery.
My monthly periodical fare growing up was Hot Rod, Super Stock and Drag Illustrated, Drag Racing Monthly, The Elapsed Times and a few other short lived mags published by Peterson Publishing. Car and Driver and Motor Trend fell off my radar by the time I was 15. That's when they moved more to the European & luxury/performance markets.
Although the mechanical aspects are the same when taken to basics, the focus is far different.
Now off road stuff is in my library as is 2 wheeled performance but yet again, if you introduce the euro flavor I am uneducated as well as mostly uninterested.
So in the long view, I am not what they would look for.
RE: Audition for Top Gear! - Mustang - 07-19-2015
They want this to get away from its last slapstick image Google Andy Saunders his name is in the frame
RE: Audition for Top Gear! - Twitchin Kitten - 07-19-2015
Yeah, they're running episodes here in the USA again without the big orangutan. No star in a reasonably priced car or news in the mid point of the show. Just some useful info on what they're doing. Clarkson is in the pre-recorded bits they're showing but they're running the show without him. It's actually very nice. They don't really need a third person as it seems to be working well as it is.
Why don't you do it Mark?