AUSTRALIA 
Warren Brown - Top Gear Australia host
Thursday, 29 May, 2008
Top Gear Australia host Warren Brown
With a great talent and passion for drawing as a child, Warren pursed his love and is today, after 26 years in the business, an award winning cartoonist for The Daily Telegraph.
A great entertainer and story teller by nature, Warren has written a number of books, is a regular motoring columnist for The Daily Telegraph and hosts his own radio program on the ABC.
He’s an adventurer, with a passion for history and motoring. In 2005 he came up with the idea to retrace the epic1907 car race from Peking to Paris, using 100 year-old, original vehicles – and the journey featured in a major television series. In 2009, he hopes to embark on his next epic journey – retracing the journey of famous Australian explorer, Francis Birtles, in an original 1925 Bean car, from London to Melbourne for SBS Television.
The Bean car is part of Warren’s small collection of historic vehicles which also includes two 1920s fire engines, a WWII jeep and an armoured vehicle.
For the past three years he has been the Department of Veterans Affairs’ overnight host for over 10,000 people in Gallipoli for ANZAC Day and has walked the Kokoda Trail.
Warren is a former member of the Army Infantry and Air Force Reserve as a cadet, plays the five string banjo and ukulele and dreams of being James Bond.
His first car was a Peugeot 504 TI and his ultimate car is the Aston Martin, to keep in with his fantasy of becoming 007.
Top Gear Australia Executive Producer, Peter Abbott, says: “Warren Brown's on the team because we needed someone who can drive trucks, fire engines and old cars from one side of the world to the other. He's someone who knows how to set a magneto - and he's keen to see if he can get a shark to eat a car while he indulges his strange desire to be wrapped in sausages, while dressed in a rubber suit. More of that in the show!”
Source: SBS
A great entertainer and story teller by nature, Warren has written a number of books, is a regular motoring columnist for The Daily Telegraph and hosts his own radio program on the ABC.
He’s an adventurer, with a passion for history and motoring. In 2005 he came up with the idea to retrace the epic1907 car race from Peking to Paris, using 100 year-old, original vehicles – and the journey featured in a major television series. In 2009, he hopes to embark on his next epic journey – retracing the journey of famous Australian explorer, Francis Birtles, in an original 1925 Bean car, from London to Melbourne for SBS Television.
The Bean car is part of Warren’s small collection of historic vehicles which also includes two 1920s fire engines, a WWII jeep and an armoured vehicle.
For the past three years he has been the Department of Veterans Affairs’ overnight host for over 10,000 people in Gallipoli for ANZAC Day and has walked the Kokoda Trail.
Warren is a former member of the Army Infantry and Air Force Reserve as a cadet, plays the five string banjo and ukulele and dreams of being James Bond.
His first car was a Peugeot 504 TI and his ultimate car is the Aston Martin, to keep in with his fantasy of becoming 007.
Top Gear Australia Executive Producer, Peter Abbott, says: “Warren Brown's on the team because we needed someone who can drive trucks, fire engines and old cars from one side of the world to the other. He's someone who knows how to set a magneto - and he's keen to see if he can get a shark to eat a car while he indulges his strange desire to be wrapped in sausages, while dressed in a rubber suit. More of that in the show!”
Source: SBS