Audition for Top Gear!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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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

[LKTraz]

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If it were the U.S. version I'd give it a shot.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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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.

[LKTraz]

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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.

[Mustang]

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They want this to get away from its last slapstick image Google Andy Saunders his name is in the frame

[Twitchin Kitten]

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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?