𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗲𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱’𝘀 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘆 🚀
I’ve always wanted to drive the SD1, and this is a story I’ve waited to tell.
From an executive hatchback to a formidable cop car, it was too late to save BL, but just in time for Tony Pond!
#MissingMini
UPDATE ⚠️
STOLEN MINI RECOVERED - we’ve got it!
After a sighting of the car was sent to me by a member of the public a few minutes ago, police raided a location & have got the car.
I’ve just had a short and very emotional conversation with the owner.
JOB DONE. ☑️
Awaiting an update from the owner of the stolen Mini after she’s spoken to police.
Meanwhile, some thoughts; when we had cars stolen from Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire Police were exemplary.
Wonder if
@leicspolice
will rise to the occasion?
#MissingMini
PLEASE SHARE 😡
This beautiful Mini Clubman belongs to an A&E nurse who came off shift to find it stolen.
It went missing in the South West, but could be anywhere now.
We’ve proven before what a small place we can make the classic car community. It’s time to go to work again.
UPDATE ON STOLEN MINI ***PLEASE SHARE***
- Car last pinged ANPR M69, Leicester
- Mini partially covered on trailer towed by silver Mitsubishi Shogun
- Tow vehicle / trailer reg NV56 YAW
Police doing all they can, please make this the most famous silver Shogun on the internet!⚠️
UPDATE! 🚨 ⚠️
These are real-time images, sent to me a few minutes ago on the M5 towards Solihull.
@WMPolice
have been alerted but are yet to respond.
Please keep your eyes peeled in the area.
@QuentinWillson
👀
PLEASE SHARE 😡
This beautiful Mini Clubman belongs to an A&E nurse who came off shift to find it stolen.
It went missing in the South West, but could be anywhere now.
We’ve proven before what a small place we can make the classic car community. It’s time to go to work again.
UPDATE! 🚨 ⚠️
These are real-time images, sent to me a few minutes ago on the M5 towards Solihull.
@WMPolice
have been alerted but are yet to respond.
Please keep your eyes peeled in the area.
@QuentinWillson
👀
Eileen is finally home after a long wait while the police & insurance company did their work.
At least one arrest has been made by police, and let’s just say the silver Shogun / trailer combo spotted transporting the Mini on the motorway won’t be bothering anyone for a while…💪🏻
#MissingMini
UPDATE ⚠️
STOLEN MINI RECOVERED - we’ve got it!
After a sighting of the car was sent to me by a member of the public a few minutes ago, police raided a location & have got the car.
I’ve just had a short and very emotional conversation with the owner.
JOB DONE. ☑️
SO many messages asking questions about what happened today. I’ll update later once I’ve pieced it all together & fill in a few of the blanks.
For now, here’s something more important; Paul, Alice’s husband sent me this to show his appreciation for YOUR efforts. ❤️
#MissingMini
#MissingMini
UPDATE ⚠️
STOLEN MINI RECOVERED - we’ve got it!
After a sighting of the car was sent to me by a member of the public a few minutes ago, police raided a location & have got the car.
I’ve just had a short and very emotional conversation with the owner.
JOB DONE. ☑️
UPDATE! 🚨 ⚠️
These are real-time images, sent to me a few minutes ago on the M5 towards Solihull.
@WMPolice
have been alerted but are yet to respond.
Please keep your eyes peeled in the area.
@QuentinWillson
👀
After the last few days, it’s really great to be able to start the day with a positive update on the
#MissingMini
story.
@Tracker_UK
has been in touch to offer to fit a device to Alice’s Mini, Eileen on its return.
A big brand that cares. I think we can all celebrate that! 👏🏻❤️
#MissingMini
UPDATE ⚠️
STOLEN MINI RECOVERED - we’ve got it!
After a sighting of the car was sent to me by a member of the public a few minutes ago, police raided a location & have got the car.
I’ve just had a short and very emotional conversation with the owner.
JOB DONE. ☑️
STOLEN - PLEASE SHARE ⚠️
This Sierra Sapphire Cosworth was stolen, along with van & trailer from the Hilton in Doncaster yesterday at 2am.
Most worryingly, the rig was in a ‘secure’ car park with a security barrier & CCTV.
If you see or hear anything, please call the police!
UPDATE ⚠️
#MissingMini
You guys are AMAZING.
Thanks to all of YOU, this is not over at all - Leicestershire Police have been inundated with sightings, info and leads which they’re following up.
Remember - someone knows someone with a silver Mitsubishi Shogun.
***PLEASE RT***
#MissingMini
⚠️ ***PLEASE SHARE***
Someone knows a family member or friend with a SILVER MITSUBISHI SHOGUN, NV56 YAW.
It may be parked in an odd place like it’s being hidden, towing a classic Mini.
Last seen; Leicester, M69.
Alice, the owner is so grateful for your help. 🙏🏻😭
#MissingMini
⚠️ ***PLEASE SHARE***
Someone knows a family member or friend with a SILVER MITSUBISHI SHOGUN, NV56 YAW.
It may be parked in an odd place like it’s being hidden, towing a classic Mini.
Last seen; Leicester, M69.
Alice, the owner is so grateful for your help. 🙏🏻😭
UPDATE ON STOLEN MINI ***PLEASE SHARE***
- Car last pinged ANPR M69, Leicester
- Mini partially covered on trailer towed by silver Mitsubishi Shogun
- Tow vehicle / trailer reg NV56 YAW
Police doing all they can, please make this the most famous silver Shogun on the internet!⚠️
Here’s the latest on the
#MissingMini
(no longer missing!), via the BBC.
Note: No arrests have been made, which isn’t a surprise, given the time elapsed between the theft and recovery of the car.
Thanks again to everyone who helped.
Really sad to hear that Sabine Schmitz has lost her battle with cancer.
When the Top Gear team came to Cadwell Park, Sabine was a lot of fun - such a great character.
It’s a cruel world. 😣
UPDATE ⚠️
#MissingMini
Unfortunately the police have still not been able to locate the car, but they’re proactively following up leads. 🤞🏻
In better news, someone has offered to loan the nurse a similar classic Mini Clubman to get to the hospital in.
People can be so great. 🙏🏻
UPDATE ⚠️
#MissingMini
You guys are AMAZING.
Thanks to all of YOU, this is not over at all - Leicestershire Police have been inundated with sightings, info and leads which they’re following up.
Remember - someone knows someone with a silver Mitsubishi Shogun.
***PLEASE RT***
I think we need to have a chat about this. 🥴
As a parent, I’d be horrified if my kids went to put their hands on a car in a car park; let alone a car show!
Am I being unreasonable?
REMINDER -
#MissingMini
Silver Mitsubishi Shogun last seen on the M69 near Leicester last night but could be anywhere now.
If you’re in the banger racing community and you know of someone acquiring or entering a new car for Kings Lynn this weekend, you know what to do. 📞 🚔
UPDATE ON STOLEN MINI ***PLEASE SHARE***
- Car last pinged ANPR M69, Leicester
- Mini partially covered on trailer towed by silver Mitsubishi Shogun
- Tow vehicle / trailer reg NV56 YAW
Police doing all they can, please make this the most famous silver Shogun on the internet!⚠️
REQUEST FOR HELP
#MissingMini
Any traffic police who can explain how ‘the system’ works please?
As we followed location info through force borders, the car’s owner was told to call each next police force & report it again and again.
Does this info not get flagged force-wide?
#MissingMini
⚠️ ***PLEASE SHARE***
Someone knows a family member or friend with a SILVER MITSUBISHI SHOGUN, NV56 YAW.
It may be parked in an odd place like it’s being hidden, towing a classic Mini.
Last seen; Leicester, M69.
Alice, the owner is so grateful for your help. 🙏🏻😭
UPDATE - police didn’t get to the services in time so the vehicle had chance to leave. 🙈
ANPR triggered nearby on the M69 - Leicestershire (?).
This isn’t over. Not yet. If you’re in the area - eyes peeled and call police if you see the Mini, being towed by a silver Shogun.
Jeremy Clarkson, in a Rally-prepared Lotus Cortina, at Cadwell Park for season finale of
@thegrandtour
.
On a scale of 1 - 10, how excited do you think I am?
As promised, here are some more photos of the incredible Lister Storm at tonight’s
@eytcc
classic car show.
What an incredible machine, with details that simply jump off the metal at you.
Wonder if
@tiff_tv
had one like this as a company car when he was a
@ListerCars
driver?
Like you need another reason for a drive out to
@CottinghamParks
for tonight’s
@eytcc
classic car meet… 🙀
I’ll post more photos of this incredible Lister Storm prototype later for those who can’t make it - watch out! 👀
Do YOU like your nostrils full of smoky eighties hydrocarbons and your eyes full of Group B rally cars?
You’ll want to keep an eye out for details of the 2024 Historic Rally Festival, then.
Absolute. Scenes. 🔥
This isn’t my car (can’t tell you how much I wish it was).
It’s not even my photo (quite wish that was, too!).
BUT, someone I know posted it on Facebook, and I figured you NEED this in your lives.
Dane Walker owns the car, he also took the photo. Damn that man.
#InLove
Getting Brian May to rework his best track for your Ford Sierra TV ad would, on any ordinary day be a winner.
But then you go and trump it with a Q8 Sapphire Cosworth rally car jumping on to the screen.
Remember when Ford just ‘got it’ & life was that little bit more simple? ❤️
Having spent the week trying to recapture some of the magic from the original Top Gear Rally Report programmes that got me hooked on rallying as a kid, I’m driving home very happy tonight, having received this from William Woollard.
Shall we bring it back properly
@BBC_TopGear
?
So. How did the
@BBCSPOTY
research team overlook Russell Brookes in the tribute list?
Online tribute on
@BBCSport
REQUIRED now.
RT if you agree!
#Rally
Leaving Cadwell Park.
I wanted you to hear this from me.
I’ve been offered a new opportunity in a totally different world, which I’m very excited about (more on that later!).
As I work my notice at the best race track in the world, I’ll save my goodbyes for another time. 🏁🙌🏻
As we’re all now Mini Clubman fans thanks to
#MissingMini
, would now be a good time to let you know that
@sarahcrabtreee
and I get behind the wheel of one in the next Great British Car Share film? 😆
Give
@car_british
a follow and subscribe at to watch 👀
Still no update.
I know hope of finding the car in one piece slips away with every day that passes, but I’m determined that this doesn’t become just another crime number exercise.
PLEASE - if there’s a silver Shogun near where you live; go take a closer look. 🙏🏻
#MissingMini
UPDATE ⚠️
#MissingMini
Unfortunately the police have still not been able to locate the car, but they’re proactively following up leads. 🤞🏻
In better news, someone has offered to loan the nurse a similar classic Mini Clubman to get to the hospital in.
People can be so great. 🙏🏻
The magic of rally.
I took this photo on the road section to Scotland on the last RAC Rally.
Rally cars on the public highway on their way to stages is one of the most incredible sights.
Chills. ❤️
#Rally
#RACRally
Mad rally skills! 🙀
Great driving from Andrew Hutchinson to avoid a stricken Mk2 Escort on last weekend’s East Riding Stages Rally.
You won’t flinch like this again tonight! 👀
🎥 MSS Rally Team
This might be the best photo I’ll ever take of a Lancia Stratos.
Why?
Because of the amount of people who packed out Carmarthen Town Centre this evening to watch the RAC Rally competitors drive over the ceremonial start.
Tomorrow, we go live. 📺
This rally. This sport. ❤️
The last few weeks have led to an unhealthy obsession with Triumph’s very British, very seventies rally wedge.
Is there a cure for this, anyone know? 🙈
It’s 2023. A Lancia Stratos goes into the final day of the RAC Rally in second place. 🤯
I’ve never been more excited for the final day of a rally in my whole career - see you in KILLER KIELDER.
First stage goes live at 8:30am - watch the action unfold:
This better not be a Fast & Furious style road racing scene in movie about rallying! 😳
The Group B era has waited a long time to be given the Hollywood treatment, and the Lancia 037 is my ultimate rally car.
I REALLY hope the wait has been worth it. 🤞🏻
Bought a moon miles Fiesta ST (which may or may not have been rallied 😂) to reduce mileage on the Puma ST.
I owned one 12 years ago, and it was brilliant. Why don’t we still make simple, honest hot hatches?!
We didn’t need to go faster & get more complicated, we really didn’t!
That MG Metro has driven 400 miles!! The Montego is a 40k minter; they normally live in the attraction.
Despite the weather, filming went ahead today for series 4 of the Great British Car Share.
The idea that cars are built to be enjoyed is at the heart of
@car_british
. Wow! 😍
⚠️
This is cohline fuel pipe. You know; the one that’s more resistant to ethanol in modern fuels. It’s been on the car 2 years.
In situ, it looked fine. Yet on closer inspection I found this degradation.
This could have caused a fire - please, PLEASE check your fuel pipes. 🙏🏻
𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘 // 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱 🔥
British Leyland’s last ditch effort left a lasting impression.
An indelible blaze of glory for a British motor industry which would never be the same.
The mythical beast; the British muscle car we deserved.
Delivered, too late.
WHAT. A. CAR.
I don’t live in London and most of the time I drive a compliant car. But I’m so cross about the ULEZ expansion for the hard working people it affects.
I hate the precedent it sets, that it’s been pushed through under false pretences, and that people are not being listened to. 😫
A birthday surprise I’ll never, ever forget. 🤯
My cake delivered in a Group A Celica GT4, and the candle lit by World Rally Champion and one of my all-time rally heroes, Louise Aitken-Walker while live on
@SpecialStageuk
.
I’ll never forget this moment. ❤️
#RallyTV
I met a lot of police motorcyclists when I was at Cadwell Park.
Like this bloke they were spot on & knew how to deal with people.
BUT we need to get away from this habit of filming people doing their jobs.
This discussion didn’t need to be filmed & put on the internet. Did it?
Let’s start the week with a rally homologation special - how about this Rothmans Manta i200 Group B road car on display at the opening round of the Circuit Rally Championship at Oulton Park yesterday?! 🔥
Seeing the time
@RichardHammond
has for everyone at the British Grand Prix is truly inspiring - he never stops taking photos and smiling, just really gets it. 👌🏻
STOLEN Has anyone seen this Morris Minor Traveller? It was stolen from friends in Hotwells, Bristol BS8 around lunchtime today 9 March. Reg YKX844J, known as George
#morrisminor
I just called the police, on 101 to report a white van driving slowly with the occupants seemingly taking photos of driveways.
It always feels like you’re curtain twitching reporting things like this, but you never know what you might prevent.
Suspicious activity? REPORT IT. 🙏🏻
A bit of respect from A-listers on the
#F1
grid, and about time!
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones showing their class and how it should be done. 👏🏻
STOP. EVERYTHING. 🛑
The Stratos of Seb Perez and Gary McElhinney is into 3rd position on the RAC Rally, almost 50 years after Sandro Munari took 3rd on the Lombard RAC.
Do we dare to dream yet? DO WE?!
Just, imagine…🤯
#RACRally
#RAC23
#RallyTV
So much cool in one photo. 🔥
Tony Pond and David Richards wait to pilot the Chequered Flag Stratos in Belgium, 1976.
Take me right there, right now! 🙏🏻
WOW! 😵
Behind the scenes of the Triple C magazine shoot when Phil Collins tested rally cars - including the Group B Metro 6R4 - with Ayrton Senna.
This amazing image is part of a set taken by Rob Wall which have never before today been seen.
Incredible moment. 😍
RIP Rosemary Smith.
A competitor and character who has been an inspiration to so many, and will continue to be so long into the future.
Her legacy is all around us. On every rally stage. ❤️
Sometimes, there’s nothing better to soothe the soul than a muddy Mk2 Escort with six belting Cibies.
Here’s Jim Roberton and Paul Gribben on last week’s RAC Rally on their way to a 24th place overall finish.
Face it - it’s what your Thursday was crying out for. 🫶🏻
The nineties are coming in hot, but Group A wants you to know that the eighties are still clinging on for dear life.
Question is - are you team Subaru or team Mitsubishi? 😈
#Rally