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#1 swiftruss

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Posted 10 October 2020 - 03:30 PM

Top Gear coverage of The British Motor Show 1990

Features a Radio Times competition to promote the re-launch of the Cooper model after 20 years of absence.

The Mini Cooper footage starts at 29mins.30secs

Features Mini RSP models

Presenter - Noel Edmonds

1990 British Motor Show Sunday(longer) Programme (BBC - Top Gear)

 



#2 MikeRotherham

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Posted 11 October 2020 - 07:53 AM

Are you Paul Russell Swift stunt driver extraordinaire? The bloke driving the car?


Edited by MikeRotherham, 11 October 2020 - 07:54 AM.


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Posted 11 October 2020 - 06:32 PM

I didn’t know Noel Edmunds could drive like that.

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Posted 11 October 2020 - 07:44 PM

Hi Russ, my wife still has fond memories of being a passenger in your car at Brands Hatch a few years ago.

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Posted 12 October 2020 - 06:46 AM

Top Gear coverage of The British Motor Show 1990

Features a Radio Times competition to promote the re-launch of the Cooper model after 20 years of absence.

The Mini Cooper footage starts at 29mins.30secs

Features Mini RSP models

Presenter - Noel Edmonds

1990 British Motor Show Sunday(longer) Programme (BBC - Top Gear)

Was the Mini Cooper modified in any way to be able to do the stunts or was it bog standard?



#6 Ethel

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Posted 12 October 2020 - 12:40 PM

I didn’t know Noel Edmunds could drive like that.

I didn't know Alan Partridge had a beard.



#7 tarnofsky

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Posted 15 April 2022 - 10:13 PM

 

Top Gear coverage of The British Motor Show 1990

Features a Radio Times competition to promote the re-launch of the Cooper model after 20 years of absence.

The Mini Cooper footage starts at 29mins.30secs

Features Mini RSP models

Presenter - Noel Edmonds

1990 British Motor Show Sunday(longer) Programme (BBC - Top Gear)

Was the Mini Cooper modified in any way to be able to do the stunts or was it bog standard?

 

Talked to Russ Swift a few years ago after one of his famous parking stunts in the Mini. He also did the drive on two wheels at the time. I asked the same question. Answer was - no mods but the diff needs to be locked or limited, else the drive would go to the wheel in the air and you couldn't move. Anything else can be left standard.



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Posted 16 April 2022 - 07:10 AM

 

 

Top Gear coverage of The British Motor Show 1990

Features a Radio Times competition to promote the re-launch of the Cooper model after 20 years of absence.

The Mini Cooper footage starts at 29mins.30secs

Features Mini RSP models

Presenter - Noel Edmonds

1990 British Motor Show Sunday(longer) Programme (BBC - Top Gear)

Was the Mini Cooper modified in any way to be able to do the stunts or was it bog standard?

 

Talked to Russ Swift a few years ago after one of his famous parking stunts in the Mini. He also did the drive on two wheels at the time. I asked the same question. Answer was - no mods but the diff needs to be locked or limited, else the drive would go to the wheel in the air and you couldn't move. Anything else can be left standard.

 

Thanks for the info.






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