Old Top Gear - Rolls Royce Alpine Tour 1993

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Tony Mason accompanies owners of Rolls Royce Silver Ghosts in 1993 as they recreate James Radley's 1,650 mile journey through 19 Alpine passes without having to open the bonnet of his Ghost throughout.
Quite an achievement now, but Radley achieved this in 1913!

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@nygelmiller5293 7 ай бұрын

So nice to see the journey, without needing to affird a Rolls Royce myself!

@michaelmanger8640 5 ай бұрын

There is the golden years of Rolls Royce ✨️ ✌🏽❤️🎶🇦🇺

@robw7676 5 жыл бұрын

Top respect to these old boys - 330,000 miles in a 1929 Bentley!

@stevetraynor4078 3 жыл бұрын

Haven’t seen this in a long time George Milligen was my Great Uncle the Rolls in this Video was passed down to me which I still have and very much enjoy driving

@wilsmit3889 9 ай бұрын

About 7 of 8 years ago I met John F Kennedy, his wife and the James Radley Silver Gohst in Hum, Croatia. As a car enthousiast I loved to see the RR and talks with John about it. He invited me for the next day to Buzet. I went there and was invited again to make that day a trip. It went to be an unforgetaball day, which I still remember and brings back tears of luck and happiness of meeting John F Kennedy (AKA James Radley), his wunderfull wife end car. THANK YOU FOR THAT WUNDERFULL MEETING AND INVITING JOHN!

@andrewmcneil2110 2 жыл бұрын

Great to see those beautiful old girls still going strong.

@Paggerd 10 ай бұрын

The cars or the wives?

@congvub7142 2 жыл бұрын

good sharing, thanks you

@mflowproductions 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful ...

@BaronVonPurp 11 ай бұрын

My GOD Jeremy was so young....look at that mullet

@johnathandaviddunster38 Жыл бұрын

Alan Clark whipped up the hill ....

@andrewmcneil2110 2 жыл бұрын

Do you think one of those owners would tow me on my mobility scooter all the way? That would be my only way to do it. Lol.

@leosaura1993 Жыл бұрын

This are beautiful cars but a common problem with all early cars 1900 to 1930 there where always some type of mechanical problem so one had some knowledge of been a mechanic that is why all cars came with a tool box.

@Backwardlooking 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic programme. Unlike today’s woke rubbish. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@jamesjardine22 3 жыл бұрын

Austin Cavalia.....Spare me!!!!! Surely, not really!!!!

@TX200AA 9 ай бұрын

You really have to be a driver to get down some of the passes in a heavy car with a crash gearbox, narrow tyres, and no front brakes.

@T1Bentley 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this. I have the tape whoch was sold to us members then, but it's slighly different and I always wondered why Jeremy Clarkson was mentioned under the credits of the tapet. Now, here he is. It's also nice to see the late The Hon Alan Clark, a great chap and great Silver Ghost enthusiast!

@nygelmiller5293 7 ай бұрын

Good to hear Alan talking about his own car

@Biker_Gremling 7 жыл бұрын

This was very enjoyable. Hopefully I will get to drive one day through those mountain passes.

@lendlkaiser3622 5 жыл бұрын

What an enjoyable video,I would love to travel along with them! Thanks

@hashtag1066 11 жыл бұрын

what could be more glorious...seeing the magnificent Alps in one's Rolls open tourer...?

@masterskrain 7 жыл бұрын

Oh, James May would LOVE to do this report...

@Romeren 5 жыл бұрын

Could this BOB MAY at 4:00 be James' Father??

@gentlerowdy 7 жыл бұрын

remarkable event watching this was being 1 amongst all of those happy people in there- cheers keep up they great job.

@johnhetherington8830 7 жыл бұрын

Good show thanks

@CrazyHHO19 11 жыл бұрын

old rollsroys is piece of art simply magnificient

@postscript67 11 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Thanks for posting.

@postscript67 11 ай бұрын

Is it really ten years since I first watched this? It's a splendid film. Not just for the subject matter, but it reminds me that back in 1993 I bought my first roadworthy classic car, not a Rolls Royce but a 1953 Standard, and that my holidays at the time were similarly less grand - inter-railing round Europe. How I would have loved to have joined this fine mixture of folk in these great cars!

@HermanLabuschagne 9 жыл бұрын

I keep dreaming about a Ghost tour across part of Africa one day. Top up my bucket list. Right at the very top.

@benfletcher9659 11 жыл бұрын

My grandmothers family had one of these, they rented it to a museum and never got it back. I am trying to find it, my grandmother had rights to it, but would have to pay costs for its care all these years.

@dickcheese663 12 жыл бұрын

i feel like im on some type of vacation.....im looking more at the buildings and landscape than the cars

@MsShaun666 8 жыл бұрын

Alan Clark incredibly good bloke

@johnathandaviddunster38 Жыл бұрын

Enemy of the masses ...

@gentlerowdy 6 жыл бұрын

lucky owners of the most wonderful car

@rareblues78daddy 12 жыл бұрын

The men in this competition should be carrying a gallon of gas for safety... and the women should be carrying a gallon of gin for patience!

@paulgraham4567 5 жыл бұрын

42:25 You couldn't say something like that today.

@TheagentXero 11 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that John Goodman owned a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.

@jamesash885 5 жыл бұрын

Hi TR4man, I don't suppose you know exactly what episode this was? Do you still have this episode available? Thanks

@TR4man 5 жыл бұрын

James Ash it was found on an old VHS that I'd obviously recorded and watched, then forgotten to erase. I haven't kept a copy and the old VHS would have long since been thrown out.

@jamesash885 5 жыл бұрын

@@TR4man thanks for getting back to me. I'm wondering how/ if I can find the original copy of this episode, so it was 1993 and the title was rolls royce alpine challenge. Just my company is creating our own alpine trial, would be great to watch some of that original footage.

@edgarbeat275 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesash885 I think was just a one off episode special. I remember the episode of topgear before was on the Tatra 613 at the end it stated this event would be a special. I recorded then sadly lost.

@twistedeez 12 жыл бұрын

Check out the Citroen BX 28:34

@goblinvert 9 жыл бұрын

What's the music starting at 34:46? I can't find it, does anyone knows what it is?

@edgarbeat275 3 жыл бұрын

I'll pass this to my friend he may know

@davidviner4932 8 жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten just how bad this original Top Gear was until Clarkson and co took over, and now it's going back to its roots (:

@afrog2666 5 жыл бұрын

It`s not bad, it`s just from a different age, tv was different in the 90`s you know ;) It`s a good show, casual, lots of interviews with interesting people and a bunch of history, which is what the programme is about..

@georgejohnson1498 3 жыл бұрын

TopG ear was still a very enjoyable TV programme for me in the 1990s. By 2002 everything on The BBC had changed, so I have not had a TV at home since then. I'll agree that my views are old fashioned by now, but that is okay. Best wishes from George

@70galaxie 7 жыл бұрын

I bet these nice people payed a pretty penny for these awful tires

@KretinoSantino 10 жыл бұрын

It's quite pity that same company that made reliable cars made in times engineering was in diapers, there was no mechanized production precision of these days, each part manufactured was sort of original ....... and same company ended up making cars with very little engineering progress for decades.