Patagonia Special: claims of footage of the cars being destroyed
Posted by fvckkai@reddit | thegrandtour | View on Reddit | 4 comments
As I’m sure we all remember, the 3 cars - Mustang Mach 1, Lotus Esprit, and the infamous Porsche 928 - the trio drove across Chile and into Argentina didn’t quite have the best fate. I recently rewatched the special and it got me wondering what came of the cars after all. This website was the only information I could find to answer my questions. And on said site, they claim one person recorded the three cars being shredded to bits.
Is there any chance at all someone out there can get a hold of that footage somehow? As closure to one of my favorite sets of cars, if nothing else.
Crowlz22@reddit
If I interpreted the article correctly, it was an Argentinian government official who recorded the video, more or less for official documentation of the event I’d guess. I doubt that footage will ever see the light of day for the public being you can’t really submit a Freedom of Information request to Argentina.
As much as we’d all like to see that footage, there was only one camera at the time the cars were destroyed. Chances of that ever getting leaked are slim to none. Sorry mate
Rooky_Ghost@reddit
Maybe an Argentinian could, using the transparency laws...
The_Driver_Wheelman@reddit
As much as I’d like to see some more content about what happened I don’t think we ever will honestly, those cars are gone, I don’t think the trio will ever go back to Argentina, they may go back to Chile if Amazon allows them to do another grand tour episode out that way, not really sure, but if I’m honest the way the special ends with the crew making it into chile, and the trio running out of the Butch Cassidy house was a good way to end it even if it didn’t turn into a political firestorm down there for them. I still feel bad for everyone that was involved. It wasn’t a good day for any of the crew let alone the trio themselves because the Argentine vets thought they were trying to make a joke about it but it clearly was not the case. They did not see it any other way, it just says 982 FKL it doesn’t say 1982 FKL, and the plate was registered when it was bought new at the time, if only they showed the receipt and the evidence to prove otherwise to the vets to verify it. But alas they didn’t and they were chased out of Tierra Del Fuego sadly….
TheInkySquids@reddit
I doubt even showing the evidence of the plate's origins would've solved anything, tensions had been swelling for days as it had been circulating online a little bit after they arrived, and those protestors seemed to be mad, plus the mobs were probably already organised.