![]() 12/07/2013 at 21:18 • Filed to: Top gear, James may | ![]() | ![]() |
I own a copy of Autocar's 1992 Special Road Test Yearbook issue. And if you don't know why it's special, James May was the feature editor and got fired afterward for the hidden message he put in this particular issue. See, May was cool even BEFORE Top Gear.
If you watch enough top gear, you know these Easter eggs from their careers. Richard Hammond used to be normal, Jezza had bad hair and terrible suits, and James May was the features editor at Autocar.
I found out about this while going through their Wikipedia articles. It was one of the more interesting entries of the pre-Top Gear years. James May was bored, and decided to fiddle with the big letters you see on headings. An Opponaut or anyone knows with some manipulation, messages can be put in.
So James May put "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse." Something he would do in a boring, docile job.
I knew I had to get one. A slice of the May's fine work. So on eBay one day, I found it. Fucking cost 40 dollars for a magazine that would have cost me £1.25 at a newsstand at the local petrol station (if I lived in England). Plus, it was from Britain, not some person in Arkansas.
A slice of history of the age of the PreTopGearJezzaHampsterMay era.
![]() 12/07/2013 at 21:19 |
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And this is my copy.
![]() 12/07/2013 at 21:32 |
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God, I saw "James May got fired..." and almost had a stroke. Then I finished reading.
![]() 12/07/2013 at 21:58 |
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I remember reading about that on Cracked. I thought he quit the job and just stuck that in toward the end for fun.
![]() 12/07/2013 at 22:12 |
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I just had to find a neighbor who had heart medicine so I could take it.
Wooo my heart rate is heading down. Dude still owes me a nuclear sub made out of lego.
![]() 12/07/2013 at 22:52 |
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Yeah. It's amazing. It would be hard nowadays.
![]() 12/08/2013 at 01:59 |
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Relax, it anyone had to get fired it would be the stig getting fired because of a wardrobe malfunction.
![]() 12/08/2013 at 01:59 |
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Lol.
![]() 12/08/2013 at 03:14 |
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I hear The Stig doesn't even have a contract. There is no way of firing him then.
![]() 12/08/2013 at 10:56 |
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What a bunch of douchenozzles for firing him over that.
![]() 12/08/2013 at 11:20 |
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Exactly! They should have made it more interesting with Mays advice! But, if he wasn't fired, Jason Dawes would still be on Top Gear. And he wasn't really good..
![]() 10/11/2015 at 22:18 |
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He’s just... there. Nobody knows where he came from.
Some say, he came with the studio, and there’s no record of him being on BBC payroll.
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![]() 10/12/2015 at 00:40 |
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Two years from now you’re in for a shock
![]() 10/12/2015 at 00:41 |
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Two years from now you’re in for a shock
![]() 10/12/2015 at 00:53 |
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It wasn't needed.
![]() 10/12/2015 at 02:13 |
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“James May; the king of cool.”
![]() 10/12/2015 at 11:55 |
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May is awesome. Love the man lab series too.
![]() 08/31/2019 at 23:24 |
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Well, that didn’t turn out.