Top Gear Amphibious Challenge - Page 2

**Gixergs** · #11 02-22-2010, 02:43 PM

They were not the first BBC presenters to try and sail a car across the Channel either Duncan Dares tried it in a VW Beetle.

**peter taft** · #12 02-22-2010, 07:48 PM

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They were not the first BBC presenters to try and sail a car across the Channel either Duncan Dares tried it in a VW Beetle.

Blimey... i'd forgotten about this guy - Memories again

Thanks mate

**paulhbell** · #13 02-23-2010, 03:17 AM

That go's back a few years, Remember him more from Blue peter, teenage years and all that. Don't know weather I should have admitted to watching blue peter, bit sad of me really :o.

**Gixergs** · #14 02-23-2010, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by paulhbell

That go's back a few years, Remember him more from Blue peter, teenage years and all that. Don't know weather I should have admitted to watching blue peter, bit sad of me really :o.

Sarah Greene,Janet Ellis,Caron Keating,Katy Hill and Konnie Huq,even our Val in her day nothing wrong with watching Blue Peter mate!.I think they had some interesting items on there as well.Of course none could compete with Susan Stranks and Jenny Hanley on Magpie!.

**peter taft** · #15 02-23-2010, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by paulhbell

That go's back a few years, Remember him more from Blue peter, teenage years and all that. Don't know weather I should have admitted to watching blue peter, bit sad of me really :o.

Not at all sad my friend, if the programmes were as good today as they were then, i'd still be watching. BP lost me when the presenters got WITH IT, you know... making themselves appear to have credibility, but you can tell there'e something else they'd be sooner doing instead.

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Originally Posted by Gixergs

Sarah Greene,Janet Ellis,Caron Keating,Katy Hill and Konnie Huq,even our Val in her day nothing wrong with watching Blue Peter mate!.I think they had some interesting items on there as well.Of course none could compete with Susan Stranks and Jenny Hanley on Magpie!.

Ummm, the Presenters i rushed home from school to see

i watched what they were trying to make in the famous "Blue Peter Makes" part of the show - at least i watched them

ummm........:D

**Gixergs** · #16 02-23-2010, 07:24 AM

And don't forget they saved this country at Christmas with there how to build Tracy Island item.

**peter taft** · #17 02-23-2010, 07:32 AM

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And don't forget they saved this country at Christmas with there how to build Tracy Island item.

Now this was the BIGGEST "Blue Peter Make" in their history ! They were inundated with REPEAT requests for the build to be shown again and again, in the end they ended up having a proper instruction sheet for us all to send in for... Things sadly have gone downhill since then, a lot children just can't be bothered these days - tooo many rubbish TV channels and computer games stand in the way of developing basic skills.

**Gixergs** · #18 02-23-2010, 07:43 AM

And they changed the shape of Fairy Liquid bottles!!!

**Gixergs** · #19 02-23-2010, 07:46 AM

Blue Peter Makes A Tracy Island 1993 Part One Anthea will show you how to build it:D

**Thales** · #20 02-23-2010, 09:10 AM

I'd love more models of the Top Gear projects.... I wish I had time.