What's amazing is how many people on here seem to have had their "15 minutes of fame" at some level... I was also chosen on a radio show when I was about 12, did an American general's voiceover on a French TV movie, etc.
I know of at least one guy on here who's known worldwide in his field, but who probably doesn't want to broadcast the fact, and I imagine it would be similar for anybody who's really well known.
Already, just looking on SlotBlog and seeing names like Mike Steube, Keith Tanaka, Bryan Warmack, Tony P, Mike Morrissey and other "mythic" slotters was already pretty amazing for a kid who was 15 in 1967...
Look closely at my avatar. Think away the disguise (the ears and the nose are false). See .. I'm from Hobbiton.
Thats why I stay with 1:32. 1/24 would be too big to handle. My precioussss ...
my mum says my great uncle was the last person in canada to be hung for murdering his wife!
and allegedly (although not proven) i own the king of spains old cortina from when he was practicing for the olympic sailing in 1972!
oh and shook prince charles hand when i was 16
I first became famous when I won second prize in a needlecraft competition at my primary school.
My children think I'm famous because I've been pictured in several cycle racing and triathlon magazines.
My ex-wife tried to convince a judge that I'm a lot more famous than I am because she (mistakenly) believed that winning a few bike races and triathlons meant I was rich.
I achieved notoriety and appeared in a number of national magazines when I broke my back.
QUOTE "Only topics related to the Slot Car hobby and Motoring will be allowed."
Yes, I'm famous for being a grump.
Fire away guys! we're good to go. At great expense I have hired a vast team of lawyers who after a long period of honest (yeah, yeah I know... lawyers) consideration have assiduously determined "...most of the posts ARE relevant to Motorsports and motoring and that WE ARE the slot racing community..." which is allowed under Article 27 subsection 153 of the Spurious Internet Divergence Code...
Scott you have to try harder to be a grump... Your post doesn't meet the standards of "curmudgeon 3rd class"
As this seems to have evolved into a thread about famous people you have known I may as well list mine!
I grew up in Caterham with the actor Bill Nighy and still know him and through him have known Julie Waters, Pete Poselthwaite, Michael Kitchen, Bob Hoskins, Ken Cambell, Mike McCartney (Paul's brother) and quite a few more.
I went out with the singer Kirsty McColl when she was sixteen for a few months.
I played in a band called the 'Diamond Chestnuts' and we played at the Marquee club, the bass player and guitarist went on to play in John Ottway's band.
people often ask me at swapmeets if I am 'The Phil Smith' so I guess I must be quite famous in my own right in the small world of Slots!!
Maybe all those really famous people are choosing not to reply and protecting their anonymity
. Like Graham hinted at in the first post. It would have been interesting if someone really famous came forward. However, the numerous replies and popularity of this thread just goes to show what a good sense of humour the slot car community has.
Not me, exactly, but I did help some guys from Coventry get on TV although not for reasons they would have wanted! Whilst on patrol in Northern Ireland some years ago a car stopped and asked for directions - the afore mentioned group on a fishing holiday. I did so and continued the patrol without thinking any further about this until back in the mess that night, watching the news on TV, I saw the same car with a large boulder on the bonnet after the IRA had blown up the bridge I'd directed them to!
If you guys are slotters reading this then I'm very sorry!
No injuries to anyone, by the way, but I'm sure the car was never the same.
If you watch the Police Stop Vice special from Leicester, You can see me driving a breakdown truck in almost every shot!
The Garage was just down the rd ( I had a busy night too,)
Also there's an episode of Last of the summer wine that you can see me(& the same breakdown) truckover the stream from Cleggy's house.
I also got into the local paper whilst a teen as an un-named hero(with a mate) for saving a young mums life after she crashed into a stationary JCB.
ED
If we're going to do "no degrees of separation," my 4 years at the Village Theater in Westwood, California (home of UCLA and first-run theater) gave me a chance to:
-shake hands with Groucho Marx before we let him into the theater ahead of the line ("You wouldn't deny admission to a 'living legend,' would you?")
-see Walter Matthau pay for a ticket and stand in line to see his own movie!
-have Charlton Heston insist that his son thank us for letting them in for "professional discounts" (free)
-have Steve McQueen pat me on the stomach and say "Thanks, Bud" for letting him in ahead of the line
-use the urinal next to Herb Alpert
-talk to Mario Puzo (author of "The Godfather") for an hour during the premier of the movie at our theater (he remarked that he was "totally broke," having gambled away all the money he earned from the book; he was-at the time-writing the screenplay for "Earthquake" to earn some of it back)
...and later, I worked at a coffee store in Brentwood (upscale suburb of L.A.) and sold coffee to:
-Burt Lancaster
-Samantha Eggar
-Betsy Drake (minor actress and former wife of Cary Grant)
-James Garner
-James Arness
-Diana Ross (bought 10 Braun coffeemakers for her "staff" at the cost of $150 each)
...but such is life in L.A. and environs-you can see famous folks all the time.
last night my brother told me that a guy we played with when we were little back in our small town of 700
is in the media right now with his few minutes of fame ... for having a fling with jennifer aniston !!!
he was a key grip on her movie set
apparently he is slagging her for being 'sex crazed' - having spent a supposed 10 days with her and being told he was
'to pure' ????!
A forum community dedicated to slot car owners and enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about collections, racing, displays, models, track layouts, styles, reviews, accessories, classifieds, and more!