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Top Gear Stamps Competition

Top Gear Challenges

3-wheelers.com has teamed up with Isle of Man stamps and coins to offer a great new world exclusive in the form of new Top Gear stamps,.

Isle of Man Post Office is pleased to present this set of six stamps featuring a selection of the most bizarre and ingenious automotive challenges featured on the most popular motoring programme on British television.

This collection of lavishly tooled stamps commemorates some of the bravest and most innovative transport solutions created by Clarkson, Hammond and May in the course of Top Gear's most fiendish challenges. OK, so most of these cars didn’t actually work very well. Some of them caught fire or sank, occasionally simultaneously. But they all demonstrate the very things that make Britain the finest nation on Earth: inventiveness, hard work and a healthy disregard for maths or accurate measurement. Affix them to your tax returns with pride!

Featured on the stamps is the Reliant Robin space shuttle.

Space shuttles are among the most expensive pieces of engineering in the world, costing literally billions of dollars to build, send into space and bring back down again. James and Richard believed they could save the space industry a bunch of cash by bolting a Reliant Robin – every Yorkshireman's favourite three-wheeler – to a blooming great rocket and standing well back. The Reliant Shuttle took off with a bang, but the landing didn’t go so well… 

WIN A FIRST DAY COVER

Isle of Man Stamps and Coins have kindly donated 9 First Day Covers. The cover features the full set of Top Gear stamps cancelled with the first day of issue special postmark (November 5th 2011).  The story of the issue is inside, told on an illustrated information card.

To enter the competition, answer the following question.

Which Top Gear presenter has a house in the Isle of Man?

A) Richard Hammond

B) James May

C) Jeremy Clarkson

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED

Congratulations to the winners:

  • Alun Cleverley
  • Dave Strand
  • Garry Gregory
  • George Scott
  • James Smith
  • Joanne Waugh
  • Keith Gittus
  • Kerry Croxton
  • Steve Casey

As well as First Day Covers, the Top Gear stamps are also available in other presentation packs

Please visit the Isle of Man Stamps and Coins website at www.iomstamps.com to find out more about the Top Gear Challenges collection.

 

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