Patagonia Top Gear cars with Falklands' war plate number reference, crushed by Argentina

Monday, August 23rd 2021 - 09:21 UTC

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Have you ever wondered what happened to Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear crew cars involved in the Argentine Patagonia incursion, which triggered a major diplomatic controversy since the number plate of the Porsche 928 read H982 FKL and was interpreted in Argentina as referring to the 1982 Falklands conflict? Read full article

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Steve Potts
*Apparently, the executive producer of the Top Gear program tried to rescue the remains but Argentina refused to fear they would be used as war trophies ...

Argentina is afraid of a lot of things just like Vernet’s 1828 concession in the Falklands was declared invalid by the Argentinian government of 1882. Oooh!
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RedBaron
Lotus Esprit (not Sprint).
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Heisenbergcontext
Nationalism inevitably breeds paranoia.
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Chicureo
Jeremy Clarkson said “I knew the s*** would hit the fan” – referring to anger over the plate, which featured the year of the war.

“They are just a bolshy bunch of war losing b****** w******.”

“If I ever go back there again the number plate will be W3 W0N, we won. I’ve got no time for it.”

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-calls-argentinian-falklands-7899424
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