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  • All right, So we're here with the bungee car.

  • The rover Metro 114 s I on one of the producers in the TV show Dave Morgan.

  • If you haven't seen there's another behind the scenes video which was shot on location for the bungee jump 10 days stars in that as well.

  • Just to recap, Why did you push Freddie Flintoff offer?

  • Damn in this car, there's a car over there which might be a bit of a giveaway.

  • The new aerial atom.

  • How on earth is that link in with the rover Metro?

  • Well, that the atoms probably about the fastest way you can get to 60.

  • Yeah, for 40 50 k when we saw that must be a cheaper way of doing that.

  • And then we did some calculations with just a maths, and we worked out.

  • If you chuck a Metro offer down, you go 1/10 of a second faster, literally like 2.8 and then mr 2.7 seconds.

  • Proper Top gear science experiment.

  • It's not just messing around, is it talking?

  • It's really serious education.

  • When did Freddy's name come pop into your head to be up for that?

  • Because he's supposed to be.

  • You know, he's got the evening Evel Knievel helmet, isn't he?

  • He's the devil.

  • He's the man that can't be scared.

  • So you feel Give this one to him.

  • See how he fares straightaway.

  • I mean, I think he just expects it now.

  • Yeah, he just goes, What stupid stuff my doing this week.

  • That's if there was a car you're gonna choose for a stunt that required high levels of safety instructor integrity.

  • It wouldn't be this.

  • How did this car get?

  • It was mostly we needed a really light car because you can't throw a huge weight off down.

  • You know, ideally, you want something, you think of things like Land Rovers and things which are built so strong.

  • But actually there is too heavy because we needed to add quite a lot of strengthening to this, because if you throw off, I'm on a cop car with one and 1/2 mil steel that is just gonna crumpled like a crisp packet.

  • As soon as you get those forces, you've got seven tons of force pulling through that car.

  • So you're at the point when it rebounds at the bottom of that appointment rebounds.

  • You're looking at up to seven times of force here.

  • So we stripped out there's no engine.

  • Yeah, there's no suspension.

  • Yeah, you know, this one go around corners anymore, as I just demonstrated.

  • And I thought this thing was gonna wobble around and it's actually that's track ready, actually, with that solid suspect completely straight.

  • So you've got a huge amount of very thick gauge steel inside it straight down the middle.

  • You've got a central spine that essentially attack chisel the ropes, too, and that takes away the force out of it.

  • And then Fred is bolted to have to say the spine.

  • Fred's bolted to the spine.

  • I get it.

  • But that's a bit flimsy, isn't it?

  • That's motor sport approved way.

  • We'll just go with their regulations.

  • But if I said it was the right Fred and you get how many M bungee cords did you have to attach five chords, we would be like, This is the amount of force double it.

  • This is the amount of force double again so that we were super safe.

  • And if we lose one wrote to write three ropes were still safe, and then you want start scaring the planet.

  • You're a damn.

  • That's how I look.

  • But, I mean, there's a lot of dams in the world, but not a lot of them goes straight down.

  • Sure, most of them.

  • If you think of a damn, it's scooped out.

  • So to try and get a straight down, you're just gonna hit the down.

  • So we needed one.

  • So I went back on itself.

  • There's no, actually that many dams in the world do you want.

  • Okay.

  • Yeah.

  • So this dam is actually another 60 meters underground.

  • Really?

  • So it's a full cold cave shape, but the ground is halfway up, so when you stand underneath, it's actually overhangs by about 10 meters.

  • Then you gotta get on the phone and convince someone that it's a good idea to let him jump off your damn.

  • Yeah.

  • So it's been interesting.

  • First down, we tried, um, some people went up for it, but this time they were just super up for it on, uh, I just think they thought, What do they usually do?

  • They usually just sit in an office and count the amount of water they've got.

  • I think they thought this was actually a cool day.

  • It's something to talk about in the annual newsletter Damn newsletter.

  • It was a great, great film, thanks very much.

All right, So we're here with the bungee car.

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