Challenge, celebrity/famous in shite...

[SOUL]

Now tell me young man how many miners can this crush? 

[PiperCub]

John Peel ran a Merc 190D for 22 years & clocked up 500,000 miles in it.

 

Cant find any pics, but here he is driving it round Germany & going to record shops.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IVl-o7gZo&list=PLLlZWzASNbnO52Q6dwJ2cJqKo3zOUUswy

 

Didn't he also roll around in some big yank tank? A Buick or something like it? Recall seeing a doco with him driving to work in London from Norfolk using the time to listen to some of the 100's of tapes he was sent every week from unsigned bands.

[Junkman]

[Hertz]

I definitely read somewhere that Jimmy Tarbuck had a Tagora at one time. No pics though after hours* of google research. 

[Slappy]

What, no Dawn (O')Porter in Rovamota's Princess? After 3 and a bit pages?

 

I'm ashamed of you lot

[J-Rod]

Not shite but still, this was a great programme... 

 

[Felly Magic]

We've got to have this legend. John Shuttleworth with his Austin Ambassador Y reg! In reality Graham Fellows owns a G-Wiz!

 

 

 

[Sudsprint]

Tony Curtis:

 

[Bren]

Dave Lee Travis in shit Ed Straker impersonation...

 

[Rusty Pelican]

The late great Norman Wisdom had  a posh Imp , Jarvis Cocker had a poverty spec yellow one at some point as well 

[Pete-M]

Vitas Gerulaitis and his US spec 604.

 

Winnable!

[mercrocker]

Dave Lee Travis in shit Ed Straker impersonation...

 

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He had this considerably more shite-worthy thing, too - inspiration I am sure for the Rover Unwise.....

 

 

[Taff]

are we allowed screen grabs from films? Because I have just seen Angelina Jolie driving a Lada

[Taff]

in the meantime, here is Uncle Clint from Eastenders on his Hardly Rideable bobber

 

[Taff]

to cut a long story short, they went to Ibiza to buy a C5

 

[michael1703]

[J-Rod]

He had this considerably more shite-worthy thing, too - inspiration I am sure for the Rover Unwise.....

 

 

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I might happen to know someone who used to work with the Hairy Cornflake and utterly detested him.. 

[pompei]

Joyce Grenfell drove a Mk 1 Lotus Cortina

[fred]

Twiggy on a Raleigh Wisp

 

[fred]

Ole Les picking up his new XJS

 

[fred]

Ok not her's but Elsie Tanner handing the keys over to the winner of a Princess - YAY!

 

[fred]

Marianne Faithful looking pretty with Mick Jagger's Cooper S outside the magistrates court where Mick was being done on a drug bust, Summer of '67.

 

[fred]

Picture kinda tells you the story

 

[Pete-M]

Mick Jagger again. Shrimpton as passenger this time.

[fred]

Think Mr Plod is asking ''wheres that fucking dent come from Mr Jagger??''

[TRW]

Dr Shipman and his Renault

[Taff]

Picture kinda tells you the story

 

 

"Beefeater", eh? I didn't realise he stepped off with that foot

[Spottedlaurel]

I found this thread when hunting for something similar I vaguely recall from much earlier days here on AS, inspired by uploading this onto Flickr tonight for no reason whatsoever:

 

Fern Britton and VW Scirocco, Autocar 14/11/84 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

I'm sure I've seen another article in this series featuring Mollie Sugden and her Porsche 924.

 

Some others I have, of varying celebrity status:

 

1979 Colt Sigma estate + 1400GLX - Ken Goodwin by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Colt Sapporo and Lionel Blair, early 1980s? by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Tom Conti, Bentley and Land Rover (1994) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Harry Enfield and 1986 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8 Cabriolet D135XOY, Autocar 23/3/88 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Kevin Keegan and Datsun 260Z, 1974 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Judy Simpson (Nightshade) and Hyundai Pony by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

She later became a Gladiator.