december : 2010

ISSUe 05

ello once again, and welcome to December’s edition

of Plastic Pig - the barely behind the scenes peak at

RubberDuckMag.Com

In truth it’s just a few pointless facts about a few on-location

pictures taken by our long-suffering photographers: Alejandro

Rodriguez, Stuart Collins, Fly and Gavin Weston.

Regardless – this issue we learn that the cigarettes featured

within the Lamborghini M25 cover feature were donated by

Jon’s Nan, Margaret. Truth is also told about why the number

plates of the Italian supercar were taped over at 3am in the

morning, as well as where the wigs, flares and oldschool sneakers

came from for the Mk1 Golf GTI shoot.

WELCOME TO ISSUE 5 OF PLASTIC

PIG MAG

[December 2010]

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Our cover feature surrounding the infamous lap-record of the M25 is steeped in as much infamy and rumour milling as the stats and facts of the very race wars of the 1980s we aimed to imitate.The biggest myth of them all is that RubberDuckMag gaffer-taped the number plates, front and back, on their grey Lamborghini for the daring AM duty of the M25. Most people were mistaken with a few images of Jon removing bugs off of the plates with the gaffer tape, which was also being used to restrain the on-car cameras... and not mishieviously masking the reg from the coppers!

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There is clearly an art to smoking, which editor Jon just couldn’t get his head around for the M25 feature. The shot below took over an hour to bag, as he just couldn’t get the angle right. Jon went through a whole pack of smokes, which his Nan kindly donated to the cause. Against a wall of opposition Jon still claims his driving attire was his own, and not his Nan’s...

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With thanks to our friends over at NitroTek, readers of RubberDuck this month have a cracking chance to win a stunning radio-controlled monster truck...

As one of the world’s No1 online distributors of RC model planes, tanks, cars, boats and helicopters, Stockport-based NitroTek are a great bunch to deal with – not only for their discounted prices, but also the fact that their telephone lines

are staffed by folks who can think of nothing greater at the weekends than farting around with their own RC models.

So why are NitroTek sending this particular RC truck to the lucky competition winner? Well, this just so happens to be one of their top selling high spec pro-built models.

The Bug Crusher really is in a league of its own – featuring a high spec speed control, performance diffs, aluminium capped oil filled shocks, and an aluminium radio tray.

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TI1. The blue & white hound’s tooth flared suit was tailered for the photoshoot at the grand cost of £82! 2. Wig was dished out by VW at the movie premier of The Bourne Ultimatum. 3. Puma sneaked the size 11 orange sneakers into our suitcase.

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RubberDuckMag (in the shape of editor Jon and sinister snap-happy sidekick Alejandro) arrived in Wolfsburg – as a part of an official international press trip – to review VW’s modern museum, indulge in their on-site 5-star hotel and review the cigar lounge! However, forever falling off the beating path, we soon found ourselves sidetracked by an exclusive road test of Volkswagen’s wacky twin-turbo W12 Golf GTI and an equally enticing opportunity to swan around in their 1978 Golf GTI, which was once tested by the motoring press of the era. Sadly the excitement got the better of them both; the

night prior to their perfect day duly spent emptying the hotel mini bar of beer and thus wandering around the impressive Wolfsburg factory grounds in the wee hours - with a hop and skip in their step, and too many jars within their bellies, taking pointless pictures - later found asleep outside the Bentley auditorium... Thankfully the following day was kind enough to free

them of a serious hangover, allowing them to fool around in tailered flares, a £20 nun’s outfit and pair of donated Puma Clydes without redemption.

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I was quietly browsing through my picture archives this month and stumbled across this charming picture: A squirrel and I.The pic was, in fact, snapped by fellow

motoring journalist Mark Appleton, at the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, in 2006. We had both been flown in the night prior,

to test the Chevy Yukon Denali – spending a night in Scottsdale, before flying over the great expanse that is the Grand Canyon in a piddly plane. Not one of us onboard got to enjoy the

wonderfully dramatic view (as the tiny plane erratically dipped and dived) later touching down allowing us to jump aboard our 6.2-litre V8 bungalows, with which we wafted to our lunch stop, a hundred miles or so through the woodlands.It was on our return to the Chevy (after a

generous glut of food) that I spotted this

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friendly rodent: He banded along with all the fun and enthusiasm you’d expect from such a rodent. I jokingly squatted down and called him near, only to entice him close; riding high on his hind legs and grabbing a hold of my water bottle. He even investigated my pockets. Stupidly taking my eyes off the cheeky

rascal for a mere second he took more than his nine yards and rabidly went for my party tackle. Instinctively I retracted my nether regions – shooing the squirrel into a full-speed scarper.A few leaps into his flee he happened

to spy an abandoned nugget of bread. No sooner had he latched onto his prize, a large black raven swooped down and carried the panic-stricken animal and the piece of Kingsmill to a nearby tree. It was only when the squirrel released

the goods that the bird too decided to plummet the nut harvester. On landing, the squirrel shot up a tree. Mark and I just stood there in disbelief. Since then, nobody has ever believed

a word of this story. Why, I wonder? JS

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Let me see, the Duck Blood, Issue number 3Lapping the M25 in a LamborghiniGallardo, SuperleggaraTrying to smash a time set in the Eighties eraBeware of the cops and the speed camera clocksIt’s not like it was, yo they’re pulling out the stopsThrowing out the stingers, with electronic shocksOne false move, they’ll have your crew up in the docksDapper Dan’s Chevy, got the Digimod treatmentMad Max style, now the rides looking decentYo and Ayrton Senna, the only speed demonThis is a tribute man, he won three seasonsThe centrefold girls, have the man dem all stunnedLooking like the two chicks from the Cannonball RunPlus a modified Saab, four-wheel drive turboDid the quarter mile, faster than you drink Perno.

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