Now THAT’S a hair cut
April 29, 2008 by upyourego
Yes that really is Jeremy Clarkson with the most amazing Brit-Fro I’ve ever seen.
The photo is taken from a very early Top Gear clip that shows Jeremy doing a painfully serious public service announcement about bad drivers and the Ozone Layer.
The message is “Cars don’t kill people, people driving cars kill people” or something like that - this is from the early, pre-re-launch (2002) of the show.
But you can tell big JCs opinions on driving, speed, safety, cars and green issues are already pretty firmly set in place by this point.
I love the pay off “Top Gear will continue to campaign for safer cars but only you can make safer drivers”. That’s pretty much been the message throughout the shows history really - except now it would more likely be “speed doesn’t kill people, stupid morons driving cars they can’t handle kill people”.
When I first started watching it (video is at the bottom of this post) I was waiting for the pisstake payoff or the next line to be something like “so we’ve decided to drive two of the safest cars with two of the worlds worst drivers around the assault course and put them against two of the worlds most unsafe cars with the worlds best drivers.”
Followed of course by “I mean, how hard could it be?”
But that didn’t happen. However it is amazing watching a video of a young Clarkson displaying such a serious presenting style - it’s a far cry from the comedy/light entertainment style he applies today.
It’s also easy to see from this just how much better he’s got at the job over the decades - this must have been in his early television days.
Here is a transcript of the whole, slightly surreal thing:
“Within this elegant, eloquent and sometimes frighting prognosis there is irrefutable fact, there is conjecture and there is poetry.
“But the message seems to be clear. The car is a beast that may well one day consume the Earth and all who dwell on it - a terrifying thought.
“But what would the world be like with no internal combustion engine? Would we let the house burn because there is no fire engine?
“Would we let our loved ones die because there is no vehicle to get them to the hospital? Would we let the Ethiopian die because there is no truck to get the food from the port and would we add a million or more to Britain’s dole cues because there is no motor industry?
“There is no definite proof of global warming and no one can say for sure what is causing the hole in the Ozone layer but there is an inescapable fact. Cars do destroy people’s lives. They do maim and they do kill - or do they? Isn’t it more likely to be the people that drive them?
“Top Gear will continue to campaign for safer cars but only you can make safer drivers.”
Story from Final Gear Forums.
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