R.I.P. Quentin Willson

[Evil_Breakfast]

I've never heard of William Woolard but a program about gloveboxes sounds great. I'd watch it.

 

[wakemalcolm]

I read that he had daughters called Mini and Mercedes: talk about commitment to your cause.
Think he may have missed a trick (or a letter) with his son, Max. Surely Austin was an open goal there.

 

[presta]

I preferred Top Gear when it was a car magazine show, not a load of clowns larking around, and QW was nearer to the former than the latter. I could picture him as a heavy smoker, but I've no idea whether he was.

 

[Moderators]

RIP threads are surely not the place to criticise the recently deceased.

If you can't be respectful then please do not post in, or start, these threads.

Thank you.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

The obituary thread on bike radar was often comical in an affectionate way, but I've behaved since migrating.

 

[stephec]

RIP threads are surely not the place to criticise the recently deceased.

If you can't be respectful then please do not post in, or start, these threads.

Thank you.

Well said, we can leave that kind of thing to Miriam Margoyles. 😂

 

[Drago]

Well said, we can leave that kind of thing to Miriam Margoyles. 😂

Yeah, she does have a bit of an unpleasant streak.

While I don't approve of Willson's fraudulent behaviour in his younger days, people do change and improve themselves, as he seems to have done.

He had become a part of the nations cultural landscape in recent decades, and his passing is sad. No real age either, poor bloke.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Everyone dies, do we all get an online obituary?

Go for it then, as they say!🧐 If you think folks deaths most of us know about are not worthy of reporting, unless we mention the other 500,000 that on average die each day around the world then I'm sure you'd be allowed on CC to start a thread about each and every one of them.🤔 😏

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Im also pretty sure Clarkson wouldn't clock used cars before selling them.

Quentin was 86 really, but he’d clocked himself

 

[biggs682]

Never did me any harm so Rip

 

[Dogtrousers]

Never did me any harm so Rip

Me neither. Ive only got a vague idea who he was as I've never had much interest in cars so I never saw any of his programmes.

That's a very nasty disease that took him

RIP

 

[Beebo]

Just popped up on YouTube.
Old fashioned motor journalism at its best.
I had 2 metros when I was but a teenager. So some good memories, especially the rust and wonky suspension.

View: https://youtu.be/Qc2kFJRc5AQ?si=lpICWDQGwiAXs4UB

 

[Yellow Fang]

Well, I am going to forgive Quentin Wilson his clocking. But what I will say is that of all the cars I have driven, which ain't many, my favourite was my mum's mini metro. I much preferred it to my Dad's Peugeot 205, his Saab and his Renault 19. In part, that was because I was always worried about wrapping my dad's cars around a lamp post.