"Guy Martin: Industrial Wonders"

[pritch]

After his TV series "The Boat That Guy Built" Guy Martin said he'd never do another. It starts tonight.

Guy Martin is a truck mechanic, he also races in the British/Irish motor cycle road races: Isle of Man TT, Dundrod etc. He is a real character, to the point John McGuinnes has described him as "eccentric". Always up for a laugh Martin also gets some stick in Britain for being a traitor to his class.

Martin lives with his girlfriend's parents on their farm, but in the barn there is a Limited Edition Aston Martin V12 Vantage that he bought new.
http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/260077/guy_martin_and_his_aston_martin_v12_vantage.html

He was one of the featured riders in the TT documentary "Closer To The Edge" which followed his most recent efforts to score his first TT win. Sadly his 2012 attempts ended in a fireball.

Martin, a legendary tea drinker, did a TV programme on restoring an old narrow boat, "The Boat That Guy Built". He has now done another programme looking at unsung heroes of British engineering during which he looks at the history of various engineering projects around Britain.

There is loads of information about Guy Martin on the 'Net but his website is here:
http://www.guymartinracing.co.uk

"Guy Martin: Industrial Wonders", The History Channel, 7.30PM Tuesday

[far queue]

I enjoyed his narrow boat rebuild program, interesting and a laugh. I'm all set to record this new one.

[unstuck]

Damn, sometimes I wish I had sky.:yes:

[Grizzo]

Great stuff, thanks!

[\m/]

V12 Vantage and no house, awesome.

[BigAl]

Great read, thanks.

[ducatilover]

Will be watching it. He's a laugh, he has mighty chops too

[Stirts]

You had me at Guy Martin.

[Madness]

Proper brilliant-like.

Thanks for posting this Pritch.

[Swoop]

Presumably it comes with subtitles?

[Stirts]

Presumably it comes with subtitles?

And here is what the captioner captioned for the subtitles...


"IhadaBMWE46CSLwhenIwas21,’
‘Itwasagreatcar.IthoughtthePorscheGT3RSwouldbebett er,butitwastoohardcore.Icouldn’tevenfitmyhelmetint heback,becauseoftherollcageandfireextinguisher.Itm ighthavebeenfasteronalapofDonington,butontheroadsa roundhereitwasn’t.Anditscreamedatyou – theredwheels,thered stripes…SoIgotrid.’

[Swoop]

And here is what the captioner captioned for the subtitles...


"IhadaBMWE46CSLwhenIwas21,’
‘Itwasagreatcar.IthoughtthePorscheGT3RSwouldbebett er,butitwastoohardcore.Icouldn’tevenfitmyhelmetint heback,becauseoftherollcageandfireextinguisher.Itm ighthavebeenfasteronalapofDonington,butontheroadsa roundhereitwasn’t.Anditscreamedatyou – theredwheels,thered stripes…SoIgotrid.’
That's a bit long for a Guy quote.
Perhaps "Blaardy greeat! Bollocks and chips eef yer luckey!"
:rofl:

[hayd3n]

its called how britan worked and im dlwnloading it now

[cc rider]

"IhadaBMWE46CSLwhenIwas21,’ …SoIgotrid.’I read that quicker & with more understanding then most posts on KB... that's a worry :confused:


You had me at Guy Martin.Have a big poster of Guy on my accessories desk :yes:
... & a couple of Nicky Hayden... share the :love:

Never got the boat building series here :( Anyone got a copy???

CC

[hayd3n]

I read that quicker & with more understanding then most posts on KB... that's a worry :confused:

Have a big poster of Guy on my accessories desk :yes:
... & a couple of Nicky Hayden... share the :love:

Never got the boat building series here :( Anyone got a copy???

CC

you can download it ,
called the boat that guy built.
youll ned to learn how to use torrents

[Stirts]

Have a big poster of Guy on my accessories desk :yes:

Your "accessories desk" (http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTncu9Xp2qXu_ZUzXy1GKpgSpv1wr58H 86sniSptU0yPjRhkNFirKNPklGM) by any chance?

Never got the boat building series here :( Anyone got a copy???

I am pretty sure I saw Duke had the box set on sale
http://www.dukevideo.com/

[Grubber]

Watched it last night.
VEry entertaining indeed. Guy is certainly one out of the box.
What you see is what you get i think. I actually struggled to get other jobs done as i couldn't leave it.:woohoo:

[unstuck]

I read an interview that he gave once in which he talks about breaking down on a practice run,in the afternoon on the IOM. It was nice and sunny , and very peaceful, and he had a while to wait for the crew to come pick him up, so he went and sat in the field and had a wank.:Punk::Punk:

[nudemetalz]

I thought the steam train rebuild on last night was absolutely awesome, even if I couldn't understand what he was saying half of the time.
Even just how he made the coal shovel from wrought iron was cool.

[ducatilover]

I read an interview that he gave once in which he talks about breaking down on a practice run,in the afternoon on the IOM. It was nice and sunny , and very peaceful, and he had a while to wait for the crew to come pick him up, so he went and sat in the field and had a wank.:Punk::Punk:
He's a champ among champs that guy.
The show was quite good too, me loves steam trains!

[Swoop]

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Bloody hell! The Anderton Lift has been restored!
In the '80s I travelled around on my cousin's narrowboat and the lift was a rusting derelict. Great to see it back in action!

[ckai]

I was all set for watching this at the folks with them (we're poor) and then one of the kids bloody conspired against me. Thank god for setting up the folks with isky :D I was crossing everything that they would put it up. Watched 5 mins of it now at work, thought I better stop before I get to engrossed.