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To: Chode
The story that Keith drove a Lincoln into a hotel swimming pool is disputed but Roger Daltry gave his version of "the facts" in an interview with Jeremy Clarkson on BBC's Top Gear (season 4, episode 7).

Daltry stated he didn't see it happen but he did see the bill for $50,000 Moon received for the removal of a Lincoln Continental from the hotel swimming pool.

Then Daltry added, "...And the great thing about it, it [he swimming pool] was on the second floor."

Moon also apparently had the habit of driving cars into the pond on his farm. It was a shallow pond, not deep enough for the car to sink in but deep enough to seem to him a challenge to drive across it. Several people claim to have seen a car stuck in the pond but some claim it was a Rolls Royce and some claim it was Moon's 1939 Chrysler Wimbledon, which originally was owned by the US Embassy in London.

The multiple eye witnesses and the mismatched cars lend the possibility that Moon might have done it twice, on different occasions and in different cars.


(Top Gear presenter James May and Moon's Chrysler Wimbledon)

Ordinarily you might be inclined to think it had only happened once, if at all, but being as this is Keith Moon we're talking about ....

53 posted on 09/27/2024 3:54:40 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli
"The story that Keith drove a Lincoln into a hotel swimming pool is disputed but Roger Daltry gave his version of "the facts" in an interview with Jeremy Clarkson on BBC's Top Gear (season 4, episode 7)...."

Sorry, that should have been season five, episode 7. My mistake. And you can watch it here:

https://archive.org/details/top-gear-complete-clarkson-hammond-may/Top+Gear+05x07.avi

55 posted on 09/27/2024 4:21:45 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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