Archive for the 'Gumball 2006' Category

Fifth Gear reports the 2006 Gumball 3000

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

As we reported last Sunday, Fifth Gear reported the the start of the Gumball 3000 at London. We founded a torrent link which you can download the video with.

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Team 84 (AMV8) - Paul N. write up

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Paul Nguyen and Harry Cheung drove the past Gumball 3000 in a Aston Martin Vantage (see picture above). Here is a great write up from Paul.

Hey folks,

I’m NOT the owner of the car I’m commenting on. My co-pilot and friend
is the owner. I think he was one of the first North American deliveries.

I think we can all agree that the Vantage is just simply
a beautiful car. I think its lines flow much better than its bigger
brothers.

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Gumball 3000 on Fifth Gear

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

The start of this years Gumball 3000 is filmed by the British Television car program Fifth Gear.

Here is the original quote from their website:

“Chris Evan’s former breakfast show radio sidekick, Holly Samos, joins the team and reports from the start line of the Gumball 3000. It’s a celebrity-packed 3000 mile driving challenge, and Holly interviews the stars as they prepare to depart Pall Mall in a convoy of supercars worth £5 million. DJ Tim Westwood gets flirty, Maggot from Goldie Lookin’ Chain shows off his replica A-Team van and the police get angry about the 18 Ferraris, 17 Porsches and 11 Lamborghinis as they smoke their tyres through.”

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Torqenstein burnout video at London

Friday, May 19th, 2006

 

As we reported yesterday, Team Torquenstein made a fantastic burnout at Rodeo Drive. This video shows you some Gumballers revving their engines (like the Murci and the Nissan 180sx) and finally Torquenstein demonstrated again the power of his Ford GT. But not everyone loves it…

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Chasing the Gumballers through Death Valley

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Here is a 10 minutes onboard video, following some Gumballers thrue Death Valley. It’s not a spectacular video, but it gives you a good impression why they called this highway “Death Valley”.

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Torquenstein demonstrated how to use a Torq GT

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Team Torquenstein demonstrated how to make a nice burnout at Rodeo Drive! They arrived both at the same time with Team Polizei at the finish line. This is the way how he celebrate it !

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