Help me find a car documentary on Youtube ono

[AMC Rebel]

After finding a car docco - it was about personal reg plates.  The "star" was an accountant called Nigel who wanted N1 GEL but found someone had beaten him to it and so bought N2 GEL.  It may have been on C4.  Not much to go on - but I have faith in the shite massive.  It's for a friend, not me, honest.

[trigger]

I saw a photo of N1GEL earlier on Facebook, it was a on a yellow Lamborghini

[Timewaster]

Sounds like A2B tales of modern motoring.

 

A brilliant series that gave us the rep who had a Cavalier GLi and the I stands for important.

 

He would not yield his place in the outside lane to any Cavalier without body colour mirrors.

 

We also met the rep given a Maestro a Clubman D who took it home where he and his wife cried.

[Doctormop]

To be fair the Cavalier GLI driving rep predicted the environmental problems with Diesel long before most people did.

[Jerzy Woking]

I remember watching this. N1GEL had a driveway that rose up with the car in question at the bottom.

 

And the owner of N2 GEL seemed a bit of a sad individual.

[mk2_craig]

Nigel the accountant sounds like an utter funt.

[Mr Laurence]

Google suggesting it might be a documentary called 'UR S0 V41N' looks like it's on YouTube too...

[Timewaster]

Found it!

 

It wasn't a to B (although I still recommend that you find that).

 

UR SO V41N (Friday, Channel 4) was a documentary about men – they’re always men – who buy personalised number plates. But while Ellena Wood’s film started out as a genial trip around the outer shores of naffness, it turned into something else much more interesting: a charming, rather delicate exploration of the male ego – and its fragility, in particular.

 

Nigel, an accountant in Nottingham, owned a plate, N2GEL, but pined after N1GEL. Nigel’s wife said that he was very insecure, while Nigel himself said that he’d blanked out all memories of his childhood. He went to see the owner of N1GEL, who showed off his number plate and the Lamborghini it was attached to in a condescending sort of way.

 

However, something odd happened during the film. Nigel’s obsession started to wane as he came to see how ridiculous it was. By the end he had even put N2GEL up for sale. His wife looked at him with surprise. ‘You’re growing up,’ she said.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1b052WtVvio

[AMC Rebel]

You're all geniuses, this place etc etc

 

I am/was aware of a2b - I even have the book, so I knew it wasn't that.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well that was a bit different.

 

N1 seemed OK at first then turned into a bit of a cock. Sod the yellow thing he has a DeLoren.

 

N2 has some issues that I'm sure would be solved with a week or two on Autoshite and listening to his Mrs.

 

Still don't get this personalised* manner plate thing or needing to make some word up from it but each to their own and all that.

[MorrisItalSLX]

In Australia, personalized plates are very common. I have them!

[michael1703]

I remember Nigel 2 parked on his drive and Nigel 1 hit a button and his car rose into the air and he'd left his camera in his car.

 

The guy was such a bellend

[sierraman]

I'd love to know what happened to that fat rep in his Cavalier. He'll be a double glazing salesman now I should expect with an Insignia.

[Hertz]

That was quite good that, N2 finally seen the light but if you read the replies below the vid he has still got the plate and Merc.

 

Now slightly off tangent but I have been looking for a documentary from the late 90's for ages. It was about a guy who was supposed to be the tightest man in Britain. He was obviously from Yorkshire and had some very funny one liners. If anyone can drag that one up then 10 internet bonus points for you. It was Channel four (I think) and about 1998/99 is the only lead I can give you.

[sierraman]

God I remember that! He went on holiday with the kids and made all 3 of them share a plate of chips in case they wasted any! He had a 205 a white one, said he hated braking cause it weared down the £12 a set brake pads?

[Hertz]

Sounds familiar Sierraman! When he got a good deal somewhere he would proudly announce, "I've had a right result!" Something like 10 bags of crisps on offer at Kwik Save for 50p or summat. He would put Martin Lewis to shame he really would.

[sierraman]

He were the sort of bloke who'd drop a penny at the bar and it'd hit him on the back of the head on the way down.

[Slartibartfast]

He's not the guy that hung his tea bags out to try on the washing line was he?

[colnerov]

 Ahh, but. Did he shut the gas off when he turned the bacon over?

[tooSavvy]

Ahh, but. Did he shut the gas off when he turned the bacon over?

..... so, then, you camped near me once

 

 

TS