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Fame at last!!!

Post by Andy's-Old-Beast » 13 Dec 2005 12:10 am

Did anyone see my car on ITV anglia local news this evening? 8)
They were filming something about a load of kids that came for a talk with some astronaut or another.

I'd like to stress that the youg girl is nothing to do with me..!
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Ok, calm down everyone. Just form an orderly queue for autographs...

:wink: 8)

Perhaps I should stop wasting your tme now... :lol:
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Post by petefarrell360 » 13 Dec 2005 12:50 am

LOL, good work that man! :P
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Post by redline » 13 Dec 2005 09:14 am

yeh I saw it ,the kids were at Duxford air museum to meet Michael Foale the English astronaut ,
Do you work at the museum or were you just visiting ( or is your car a temporary exhibit there LOL )
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Post by arnagath » 13 Dec 2005 09:39 am

:D :D nice...
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Post by Andy's-Old-Beast » 13 Dec 2005 05:27 pm

redline wrote: Do you work at the museum or were you just visiting ( or is your car a temporary exhibit there LOL )
Ha ha! Yeah, kind of!

No, I work there! That day I was assigned to keep the punters out of the buiding site while the barriers were down for aircraft moves. So it meant I was hanging around that area while they were filming.

I'm well impressed someone else saw it! :D
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Post by 340GLT » 14 Dec 2005 12:35 am

Quality a 300 on TV!!!!
Speakin of which what music video had one in???? :shock:
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Post by shimon340 » 14 Dec 2005 01:41 am

i think kylie's spinning around video had a blue 142 in it.....

coz of the spinning nature of the video you see it about 5 times!!

nice 142!

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Post by Chris_C » 14 Dec 2005 05:51 pm

It was one of Kylies Ad, from about 6months ago, mk2 I think, much like Ronnie's
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Post by 340GLT » 15 Dec 2005 12:50 am

Cheers Dude!!
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Post by Duvel78 » 15 Dec 2005 01:19 am

It was "giving you up" from Kylie sm70 There was a post with it:

http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... 4850#14850
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Post by 340GLT » 15 Dec 2005 01:21 am

Cheers for that mate i new i saw it somewhere!!
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