Autoshite meets Heat magazine

[Father Ted]

Has anyone ever met or seen Top 80's TV Weather Girl and Treasure Hunt presenter Wincey Willis?

Ummm, yes - and Ken Kendal. ( See post about working at Limehouse Studios on Canary Wharf)I used to have a Polo Breadvan that was owned by Paul O'Grady* too.* Very probably not THAT Paul O'Grady, but who knows.....

[Mr H Sceptre]

I have a Rinaldo story too but nobody believes me so won't bother you with it.

Do tell.......

[warren t claim]

I had a slanging match with the late Bernard Manning on Deansgate in Manchester about ten years ago.

[wuvvum]

I have a Rinaldo story too but nobody believes me so won't bother you with it.

Do tell.......

+1.Also, my landlady's husband used to be mates with Noel Edmonds, "before he became a complete tosser", as he put it. Apparently Noel used to pop round in his helicopter, as you do, and land it in the back garden.

[Claypole]

I went out with Barry Chuckle's daughter.

[warren t claim]

I went out with Barry Chuckle's daughter.

I really hope for your sake there wasn't a family resemblence!

[barrett]

I went out with Barry Chuckle's daughter.

That I find quite disturbing. He had sex? with a woman? eughcelebs are common as muck round here. top 'model' katie price used to live down my road. she had a green 1300 beetle. Alastair McGowan lives down the road from the house i lived in before i moved back in with mums. Steve Coogan lived nearby, he likes motors but never saw him driving one. did shop in the same Waitrose as me though. Nick Cave lives here somewhere, he's always out and about with his kids. Peter Andre came shopping while i was at work a couple of weeks back, apparantly he walked right past me but i didn't recognise him.

[Rusty Pelican]

Warren t claim , your sig isnt by Quantum jump by any chance ( lone ranger I think )

[j-j]

Robert Carlyle + wife came into the hardware store in Glasgow City Centre I used to work at. He's surprisingly short.He never spoke at all. The wife did all the talking and she was a right bossy cow.He seemed nice tho (since he didn't speak)

[wuvvum]

Warren t claim , your sig isnt by Quantum jump by any chance ( lone ranger I think )

Isn't it just the longest recorded place name in the world? It's a hill in New Zealand if memory serves, and it's rather odd - one version of it bangs on about a man with a circumcised penis, which is not something you often hear in place names over here.

[peter9000uk]

Steve Coogan has used my bog and then ponced a ciggy off Mrs UK. They used our house when filming an episode of Saxondale. That yellow Mustang is not as nice in real life BTW

[Rusty Pelican]

Warren t claim , your sig isnt by Quantum jump by any chance ( lone ranger I think )

Isn't it just the longest recorded place name in the world? It's a hill in New Zealand if memory serves, and it's rather odd - one version of it bangs on about a man with a circumcised penis, which is not something you often hear in place names over here.

May well be , Im sure its in that record as well , your probably too young to remember it though

[seth]

My wife's uncle lived next door/in the same building/vicinity to Stirling Moss until a couple of years ago. We're not quite sure if he actually knows him. Could well do though as he is rather well connected.I once witnessed Lord Prof Winston pumping up the tyre of his Jag while I was picking his daughter up to take her up to Uni... He did have a pre-way riley in the garage (that I never saw) but I don't know if that's given way to the Derby Bentley that I've seen there now (and that someone else on here spotted him in in town?)Must go and "spot" the motoring choices of Jonathon Woss who lives not far away.Also used to see Vanessa shopping locally in her Nissan Figaro (with VAN no plate)I've seen "McQueen Machine" drinking tea at the Ace cafe. Also VBH rushing off after a filming of 5th gear there.

[ChinaTom]

An abridged version then. Real Madrid staying in Harbour Plaza hotel where I lived for a good chunk of 2002-2007. Half the team stayed there, the other half at a different hotel across town nearer the airport. I scrounge a lift to the airport in one of the team support minibuses (10 minutes of the story left out there - just go with it). Arriving at the airport there is no crowd control - the local authorities don't get football yet, and provide little or no added security and do not allow the team to go through the VIP section of the airport. The team bus with the Harbour Plaza half of the team gets through the crowd and drops off the team who have to fight their way through the crowd to the check-in area where the first class check-in has been "freed up" for them. Security decides to close the doors and allow people in if they see a ticket being waved. I frantically search for my ticket when I get a tap on the shoulder. I turn to see a sea of white track-suits and suited staff behind me all asking me where to go as if I am an official. Fair do's, Kunming is one of those rich but perpetually dirty Asian cities where everyone wears old badly fitting clothes and doesn't wash. I did stand out a bit. I spring into life and grab the arm of the nearest track-suited chap and drag him through the crowd, past the young security chaps all suddenly star-struck and useless, and through the crowd to the first class area. It took about 10 minutes to get to the desk, and once there, I realized I had been dragging Rinaldo by the cuff. Lots of Spanish chaps in suits all yelling stuff in Spanish - I think I heard a few gracias' - not sure. let's leave out the next bits of the story and skip to the end.As the team file down the cordoned off departure gate area towards their gate. 5 of the players including Rinaldo see me standing at the entrance to gate 3 and give me that "recognition smile and wave" as they go past. Rinaldo gives me a high five as he passes.I don't mind if no-one believes this or thinks it's embellished in any way.And there was the time when John Prescott called me a noisy f*cker in the same hotel a year later...

[Richard]

Robert Carlyle + wife came into the hardware store in Glasgow City Centre I used to work at. He's surprisingly short.He never spoke at all. The wife did all the talking and she was a right bossy cow.He seemed nice tho (since he didn't speak)

I didn't like Robert Carlyle until he punched a Daily Record journalist.

[warren t claim]

Warren t claim , your sig isnt by Quantum jump by any chance ( lone ranger I think )

Isn't it just the longest recorded place name in the world? It's a hill in New Zealand if memory serves, and it's rather odd - one version of it bangs on about a man with a circumcised penis, which is not something you often hear in place names over here.

May well be , Im sure its in that record as well , your probably too young to remember it though

Lt me say that you are BOTH correct!

[warren t claim]

Warren t claim , your sig isnt by Quantum jump by any chance ( lone ranger I think )

Isn't it just the longest recorded place name in the world? It's a hill in New Zealand if memory serves, and it's rather odd - one version of it bangs on about a man with a circumcised penis, which is not something you often hear in place names over here.

May well be , Im sure its in that record as well , your probably too young to remember it though

Let me say that you are BOTH correct!

[Slaighty]

Just remembered Eric Bristow trod on my foot in a boozer in the 90s

[pompei]

In a previous life, Mrs P met Robert Plant and a young lady in a transport cafe. As is her wont she marched across and sat with them and chatted and as she left she said with a knowing look, "It's been nice to meet you and your daughter!"

[M'coli]

Used to work at a "Loch Lomondside Country Hotel", as the Daily Hun likes to put it, and back in 93 there was a tour on and saw Rowan Atkinson driving his Aston which paled beside the Ecurie Ecosse bus, a few 50s Jags and some genuine GT40s. Also saw Paul Gasgoine a few times, Carole Smiley (she's tiny!) and Nick Faldo. Best of all was a Pug 306 saloon press car.

[Guest]

I stood near Keith Harris' rubbish old E-Class Merc.

[Cavcraft]

Hey, if we're not entirely basing this on motor related 'celebs' I once suggested to gap toothed, poncey jumper wearing GOBSHITE Giles 'Twat' Brandreth that he remove himself forthwith from our communal dorway lest he should find himself in a heap at the bottom of the stairs.The debate continued downstairs after he heeded the advice and shortly afterwards he was in the back of a car flicking the Vs at me and calling me a wanker. I took that as a victory.Oh, and I also once felt obliged to request that orange barrage balloon Judith Chalmers to reveal her top bollocks. Luckily she didn't.

[warren t claim]

Hey, if we're not entirely basing this on motor related 'celebs' I once suggested to gap toothed, poncey jumper wearing GOBSHITE Giles 'Twat' Brandreth that he remove himself forthwith from our communal dorway lest he should find himself in a heap at the bottom of the stairs.The debate continued downstairs after he heeded the advice and shortly afterwards he was in the back of a car flicking the Vs at me and calling me a wanker. I took that as a victory.Oh, and I also once felt obliged to request that orange barrage balloon Judith Chalmers to reveal her top bollocks. Luckily she didn't.

That's no way to treat your local MP!

[Cavcraft]

Hey, if we're not entirely basing this on motor related 'celebs' I once suggested to gap toothed, poncey jumper wearing GOBSHITE Giles 'Twat' Brandreth that he remove himself forthwith from our communal dorway lest he should find himself in a heap at the bottom of the stairs.The debate continued downstairs after he heeded the advice and shortly afterwards he was in the back of a car flicking the Vs at me and calling me a wanker. I took that as a victory.Oh, and I also once felt obliged to request that orange barrage balloon Judith Chalmers to reveal her top bollocks. Luckily she didn't.

That's no way to treat your local MP!

He is NOT my local MP. He tried to be and he also shit out when I publicly offered the wanker a £1,000 bet he would not be elected and would piss off back to London. I wished to God he'd have taken the offer up.

[Guest]

Fred the weatherman lives really near my parents. I've seen his Messerschmitt KR 200 parked up outside before and had some shots of it on here before. Never actually seen him out in it though. It's red and minty.Heard one of the senior PPC team say 'that Volvo's fucking fucked' at RR 07 as well. Not sure who it was though, I just heard it.

[skyway]

Ive borrowed Paul Daniels old Bentley 8 ( the reg was MAG 1 C ) Cadged a lift of Bernard Sumner in his BMW Z1Cut Victoria Beckham up in her Mercedes S600Chatted with Jackie Stewart whilst in his Escort CosworthBeen run over by Bez from the Happy MondaysBeen in Gary Barlows Garage ( but there were no cars in it! )Talked cars for hours with Peter Hook Saw Rio Ferdinands Muliner Bentley Continental when his girlfriend had smeared toothpaste all over the mohair hoodNicked Wayne Rooneys parking space as he was trying to negotiate his Audi R8 into it!Let David Beckham into the traffic on several occasions in several carsGot my car stuck on Jimmy Crickets drive in the snow Been for the scariest drive of my life in Jim Moodys ( TT Racer ) Renault VanPlus loads more!

[Gompo]

 

Rowan Atkinson last year, I was working very close to his house and he drove past a couple of times in an RR Phantom.

Wifes Sister lived opposite him for a while in a rented house , some where near Thame IIRC , his house was surounded by a huge iron fence , there was a garden centre up the road he used to go to now and again , never saw him though.

For what it's worth, this wasnt at his place in Thame. More of a country residence.

 

 

Bill Turnbull, the BBC presenter, lives down the road from me.

 

 

He very much annoys me.

[garethj]

5 of the players including Rinaldo see me standing at the entrance to gate 3 and give me that "recognition smile and wave" as they go past. Rinaldo gives me a high five as he passes.

Somewhere on a football forum, Rinaldo's writing "you know that ChinaTom from AutoShite? I met him once"

[pogweasel]

Somewhere on a football forum, Rinaldo's writing "you know that ChinaTom from AutoShite? I met him once"

 

Don't be silly. Footballers can't write.

[chaseracer]

Circa 1976/7 Alvin Stardust went past my house in an Austin Princess and waved at us...

Stop right there. We have a winner.