Another allegro dies in the hands of muppets

[Alexg]

Because it didn't need saving. It was just a car for sale to a good home

[Wilko220]

A real travesty such a solid original old car was crushed in a totally unoriginal publicity stunt. Although we are unable to achieve anything I wanted to add my opinions to the ever increasing list of those annoyed by the unfunny actions of these dimwits. Unfortunatley my mild comments were removed from Facebook. A more robust approach on Twitter seemed to touch a nerve as I was PM'd by O'Connell unhappy at my tweet 'C**ts to a man', before being blocked.

 

What was his response? Did the prick actually try to deny it?

[Wilko220]

Because it didn't need saving. It was just a car for sale to a good home

 

Exactly

[fiatdaft]

Kinda missing the point.

[Alexg]

What point is that? Is it that every car available for sale needs saving as potentially a fucktard hell bent on ruining it may pony up the necessary?

[Wilko220]

What point is that? Is it that every car available for sale needs saving as potentially a fucktard hell bent on ruining it may pony up the necessary?

 

It's the banger racers' twisted logic. Unless you buy every car in the world yourself, you've no right to complain when some bell end wrecks one...

[Alexg]

What was his response? Did the prick actually try to deny it?

 

His response was just to my childish name calling. He said I know nothing about him, that I should be careful what I call people and then he blocked me.

[FredTransit]

well thank god I don't (mostly) get up early enough to listen to these fukwits! If I am up, I tend to be too busy to listen to the radio. I do listen to Absolute, but will make sure I don't listen to the Breakfast show again! It's FM in London BTW.....

[sporty-shite]

Kinda missing the point.

 

I think the point is that it is a lame, unimaginative, staged stunt, aimed at an audience with particularly low intelligence and narrow views. The fact that this is "mainstream" is a worrying reflection of both the public itself and the media's opinion of them.

[FredTransit]

Kinda missing the point.

 

I think the point is that it is a lame, unimaginative, staged stunt, aimed at an audience with particularly low intelligence and narrow views. The fact that this is "mainstream" is a worrying reflection of both the public itself and the media's opinion of them.

 

 

Agreed, pretty stupid though......

[RedSparrow]

As I said about the TG - Marina thing, I don't like it but I would rather they had thought up something original and interesting to do with it if they really had to destroy it.

These 'tards are worse as the best they could do was to make a shit rip-off of TG.

 

Also, why not join me in reporting the FB page for 'hate speech/abusive content'. If you have had a pm from them calling you a cunt etc I suggest you do the same.

[PhilA]

What I fail to understand is why there needed to be an actual car involved anyway.

 

It's radio.

 

Want to crush a car live on radio? Play the sound of a JCB whilst recording someone standing on tin cans. It's called Foley art, your radio station should have a Foley artist, go find them.

 

As for the road trip, yeah.. It strikes me that some young jock thinks that "Hurr Hurr, road trip in an old banger, it'll break down because it's crap and I'll do a funny thing and flip out and crush it, yur!"

 

Yes, I've seen this done here on cheap middle of the day sit-com shows- and every single time it's a vehicle that's either still in production or not long out of production that gets the beating.

 

They'd have hell for leather over here if they tried that with a shite icon. I put the Aggro in the same class as cars like the AMC Gremlin. Equally disliked, but still loved by those who remember them and know it's a little bit of the nation's history, shite or otherwise.

 

Tell him to go smash the ceramic ducks off his nan's fireplace because they are old and out of vogue and see his nan's reaction. I'm sure it wouldn't be positive. It'd have the local snot-pickers outside guffawing though. Choose your clientele carefully.

 

Oh, and I appreciate the comments- the GTA's a rare vehicle. It's not one of particular interest, but it certainly is a side-note in America's vehicular history and deserves at least one curator.

 

-Phil

[dieselnutjob]

1. Found out something that they like which is rare (old records or something, they are DJs aren't they)

 

2. Buy it

 

3. Smash it in front of them

 

On a variation of step 2 a fake/copy might make the point the just as nicely if they don't know

[dieselnutjob]

the guys on practically classic reckon that there was no engine in the car on the fork lift, if so then the one that got crushed may not be the one that they (allegedly) put diesel in. The whole thing could be a wind up

[Lankytim]

Theres a pic of it on top of a stack of cars in a nose down attitude, as if the engine is still in place. I recon it's all genuine.

[Wilko220]

the guys on practically classic reckon that there was no engine in the car on the fork lift, if so then the one that got crushed may not be the one that they (allegedly) put diesel in. The whole thing could be a wind up

 

Doubt it. Someone at the scrappy probably had the engine out of it first (to sell on to a Mini owner or something).

The petrol/diesel mix-up could be a hilarious* fiction, of course - the whole thing was probably scripted from the word go.

[trigger]

It's got to be a set up, if you watch the youtube video, why would they sit there filming him filling up the car with fuel, there was obviously a production crew with them who was also watching, at least 1 person would have seen what he was doing if it wasn't staged and stopped him I would have thought.

[Wilko220]

The silver lining is that I'm having fun winding up some of his gormless fans:

 

obviously calling someone who has won radio awards and entertained a lot of people a "talentless prick" is the perfect way to voice that opinion... )

 

Yes, yes it is...

[Richard]

George Lamb has won radio awards and he makes Steve Wright seem competent.

[richardthestag]

amusing jowelly dog caption comp is here...

 

http://www.facebook.com/christianoconnell

 

my entry was "I have more common sense in my cock than the producer who thought this stunt would be a wheeze! but of course that would sound like woof wooof woof woof woof woof woof cock woooof woof woof slurp woof woof woof woofwoof woof woooof!"

 

Proper PR disaster but quite fun to watch and Allegros get all the positive energy like the Marina OC could only dream of 2 years ago.

 

BTW Marinas and Allegros were part of my 70's, I like em. and TR7s and toodleoos and trummies and princesses etc etc etc

[Guest]

Right.

 

I think people are getting precious about something none of us could entertain saving, or keeping. You can't rescue them all, it's impossible. Yes, it was a crass PR stunt and O'Connell's being unprofessional hitting back on Twitter and FB. There will always be other parties who can act faster \ have more money than 'we' can. Not saying that's right, it's just life.

 

Not everyone wants to deal with us 'enthusiasts' [in need of a better word] and would rather just sell to the first person with cash regardless of what said party wants to do with it.

Allegros are not my cup of tea. I'm sure if you wanted to play devil's advocate, I'd dare say I'd be feeling different if Absolute bought an Amazon \ 460 Turbo to smash up.

[Cavcraft]

I offered the fuckers a drink over scrap money and suggested they donated it to char-i-dee. I hope O'connell gets hayfever of the cock, sneezes, blows his bollocks off and crashes his company BMW Mini into a concrete bollard which neatly sends his higly pollenated bell end right up his stomach, never to return.

[Alexg]

They put Diesel in it, then had it crushed live on air 2 days later. It's not about having the opportunity to save it, it's about some idiots deliberately ruining a rare old car for the purposes of entertaining their listeners.

 

Not amused

[Wilko220]

I'd dare say I'd be feeling different if Absolute bought an Amazon \ 460 Turbo to smash up.

 

Well, quite! I know there are more important things in the world, but it's the pointlessness of this which makes it so irritating.

 

The point is, it wouldn't have taken much effort to have offloaded that car to someone who would have fixed it - but they didn't. And if they didn't want the "effort" of doing that, maybe they shouldn't have bought it in the first place.

 

I'm not massive on Allegros either, particularly - but whatever car it is, when it's something old, rare and perfectly salvagable, and they just wreck it, it's nothing other than mindless vandalism. You wouldn't expect people to do it with an antique of any other description, so why is a car so different?

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As a PR/marketing expert, I have to congratulate you for what seems like a great and very well-judged publicity stunt! I'm doing a new viral marketing campaign soon for a leading pram supplier, I can't give out the exact details but it's basically a jokey look at Cot Death. Hope it goes as well as this! Bye!

 

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