Driving Us Insane
A year in the fast lane with Jeremy Klaxon, presenter of TV's Bottom Gear
Published on 1. October 2010
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-84887-724-5 (ISBN)
Description
Driving Us Insane reveals the presenter of TV's cult motoring series Bottom Gear as he has never been revealed before. Week by week, car by car, stunt by stunt and challenge by challenge, it describes - in forthright, no-holds-barred detail - the events of a year to remember in the life of a legend of British broadcasting.
From his inadvertent running down of Roger Moore in an Aston Martin DBS to his gate-crashing of the set of a gay porn movie in a golf buggy, this is Klaxon laid bare. UTTERLY, TOTALLY, BARE. The cars that inspire him, the friends and colleagues who admire him, the women who desire him, the ramblers, environ-mentalists and lesbian schoolteachers who rile him.
If Driving Us Insane was a car, it would be a 7.3-litre, 12-cylinder Pagani Zonda F driving down the M40 Chiltern gap at 150 mph with a JBL GTO-1202D Subwoofer belting out The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' while Myleene Klass swoons naked in the passenger seat. ONLY BETTER. MUCH BETTER.
From his inadvertent running down of Roger Moore in an Aston Martin DBS to his gate-crashing of the set of a gay porn movie in a golf buggy, this is Klaxon laid bare. UTTERLY, TOTALLY, BARE. The cars that inspire him, the friends and colleagues who admire him, the women who desire him, the ramblers, environ-mentalists and lesbian schoolteachers who rile him.
If Driving Us Insane was a car, it would be a 7.3-litre, 12-cylinder Pagani Zonda F driving down the M40 Chiltern gap at 150 mph with a JBL GTO-1202D Subwoofer belting out The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' while Myleene Klass swoons naked in the passenger seat. ONLY BETTER. MUCH BETTER.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
100 integrated illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84887-724-5 (9781848877245)
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Toby Clements
Driving Us Insane
A year in the fast lane with Jeremy Klaxon, presenter of TV's Bottom Gear
E-Book
03/2011
Atlantic Books
€3.99
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Person
Jeremy Klaxon is the presenter of the BBC's ratings-topping motoring series Bottom Gear.
Toby Clements is the author of two toilet books, the best-selling Asti Spumante Code and the only marginally less best-selling The No.2 Global Detective. He writes book reviews for the Daily Telegraph, reads The Guardian, very occasionally drives the only car he has ever owned (a diesel powered silver one), and watches Top Gear with his wife and three children in their north London home. He is also the author of a trilogy of historical novels to be published by Corvus from 2011.
Toby Clements is the author of two toilet books, the best-selling Asti Spumante Code and the only marginally less best-selling The No.2 Global Detective. He writes book reviews for the Daily Telegraph, reads The Guardian, very occasionally drives the only car he has ever owned (a diesel powered silver one), and watches Top Gear with his wife and three children in their north London home. He is also the author of a trilogy of historical novels to be published by Corvus from 2011.