[QUOTE=Matra et AlpineWhat planet are you on today ??
It was from one of Clarksons VERY SUCCESSFUL DVDs.
It clearly isnt' "art" you enjoy ... I personally dont' like Bergman movies. It' IS fun.
As said before .... it took 20 years for folks to understand Motny Python humour. Brits DO find it funny. Jsut as slipping on a banana skin was funny in silent movies. ( Hey that's making fun of someone hurting themslevs -- ban it !!! )
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Well, we Americans don't understand why the French like Jerry Lewis so much ... but then, 40 million of us think the lowest-common-denominator of American Idol is great (very successful) entertainment. Yeah, it blows.
Look, have fun with it if you want. I'm pretty sure there's no chance of it being banned. But it isn't the Fish Dance.
Some of us are simply expressing an opinion that this isn't productive for the motoring hobby.
Carney shows and county fairs used to trash old locomotives, cars, and WW1 biplanes for spectacle too... entertainmment for the masses. And our historical references to these examples of engineering are the poorer for it, with few examples of these devices left for future generations to appreciate and enjoy. Once, common Hudson Terraplanes were popular to crash into flaming walls in the 1950s... try finding a good example today. Not that mid-1970-80s daily transports are in anyway worthy of reverence. The point is, parts is parts, and if commonplace autos are destroyed for fun, pretty soon there goes the rarer stuff. There are NO Bagheera's in the US to speak of.
Original parts for once common things like my little BMW 700 Sport or Cabrio? Now made of Unobtanium...hard to get and expensive, even in Europe. While you almost can't give away an old Lancia in America, they seem to fetch a pretty Eruo.
I'm gonna stay out of these threads from now on as my principle interests are classic cars.
But I will say, culture devolves as we allow it. Entropy is, after all, the natural state of the universe.
And please, don't compare what that wanker is doing with old Porsches to the comic genius of Python. Clarkson is no Henry Manney.