{"id":93,"date":"2009-10-29T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T05:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2013-03-24T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T04:46:16","slug":"oliv3r-from-top-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/2009\/10\/oliv3r-from-top-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"OLIV3R from Top Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>I just came across this sketch I drew last year, and thought I&#8217;d post it. I had been working on some car designs for a show I&#8217;m creating when I watched the Top Gear Botswana special. In the show, Richard Hammond bought a 1964 Opel Kadett which he ended up naming Oliver (I also had a kitten named Oliver so the name is kinda special to me too). The character that Hammond created for the car set my imagination going and I created this little design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/portfolio\/Oliv3r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/portfolio\/Oliv3r_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p><b>Edit:<\/b> I just realized not everyone will know what the original Oliver looks like so here&#8217;s a couple of pics. Oliver in Botswana (driven by the Stig) and the restored Oliver with Richard Hammond.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/portfolio\/Oliv3r_on_TopGear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/portfolio\/Oliv3r_RichardHammond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already seen it, you can catch the Top Gear Botswana special on the season 10 DVD&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001PMRK0K\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=zerograviente-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001PMRK0K\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/misc\/amazon_topgear10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across this sketch I drew last year, and thought I&#8217;d post it. I had been working on some car designs for a show I&#8217;m creating when I watched the Top Gear Botswana special. In the show, Richard Hammond bought a 1964 Opel Kadett which he ended up naming Oliver (I also had [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zerogravity.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}