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| - The trip started in the city of Saigon is Southern Vietnam. The presenters were given 15 million Vietnamese dong to buy a car. This made the presenters happy as they thought that this was a lot of money to buy a car. However, they soon discovered that the 15 million dong was only worth 1000 US dollars. Jeremy stood in the rain and asked passer-byers if he could buy their car for the money he had. Later at lunch, they decided to buy bikes with Jeremy reluctantly trying to refuse. An hour later, they met the American War Museum with their bikes. Hammond purchased a Russian Minsk, May purchased an ancient Honda 50 Super Cub and Jeremy purchased a Vespa which has no stand. A producer hands them a challenge. It says that They are told to drive themselves from Saigon to Ha Long City. A journey the Americans failed to complete in 10 years, but Clarkson dislikes it. Before they began their journey however, the presenters had to buy helmets. Hammond was the only one who could fit a helmet and as such Jeremy and James went and had some made. The next day they met up in a car park to start the journey, with James having a colander and wok as a helmet and Jeremy, a bucket. Jeremy's Vespa had mirrors added to his Vespa as well. James and Richard set off straight away and left Jeremy behind when he failed to start his Vespa. Along the way, James had to ditch the wok and as they drive along the road, a car drives on the wrong side of the road and a dog is on a motorbike. Eventually, and with the help of a tourist, Jeremy managed to start his scooter, buy a real helmet and begin the journey. While struggling to ride, he nearly crashes into a stalled motorbike and yells at a Vitnamese person drivng the wrong side of the road. James and Richard later pulled over at a petrol station and Jeremy caught up to them, crashing into Hammond's Minsk. However, they later left him again as Jeremy had to repair his Vespa's drive shaft and front brakes. Later, James discovered his bike was relatively powerless and as such was incredibly slow up hills. Jeremy's Vespa meanwhile, had broken down again and had to ask locals for help. James' motorbike eventually stopped as the elevation of the hill was too much for it's powerless engine. Hammond arrived at the restaurant whilst James was forced to push his bike the rest of the way. Clarkson later discovered his many mirrors were placed in the wrong position and as such illuminated his face as opposed to the road ahead. At the restaurant, Jeremy knowingly knew Richard hasn't had much to eat except rice crispies, so he ordered set menu B which was varios dishes that had snake in them. After drinking too much snake vodka, May and Clarkson took Hammond's helmet and destroyed it by having a lorry run over it and brought him a new one, a pink helmet. Along the way in the rain, Clarkson curses his life and James mockingly sings Beach Boys 'Little Honda', but soon ran out of fuel and Hammond's clutch cable snapped. May is soon provided gas by a polite man and after meeting up and were told by the frustrated producers that they can't just fix their bikes, they soon provided a back-up bike, a Honda Chaly mini-bike, painted and flanked in a livery (similar to the bike seen in the film Easy Rider and fitted with an iPod audio system continuously playing Born in the U.S.A. (Both the iTunes and NetFlix versions of the episode have "The Star-Spangled Banner" playing, however references to Springsteen and the song remain in these versions.) Eventually, they manage to get their bikes working and drive all the way to Nha Trang, along the way, Clarkson's headlight died and Jeremy taped a torch and they head into town where Clarkson buys a ship for Hammond. They rode along the roads for a day and a half and went to Hoi An to buy new clothes as theirs got filthy. Since the clothes would take a whole day, they chose to go to the beach, but Jeremy gives up for some peace. Hammond mistakingly rode his bike near the waves, damaging it and the backup bike mocks him. As his bike was being mended, Richard was lectured by a deaf and mute army veteran about how he fought in the war while James and Jeremy watched an event in town. After getting their new clothes, they took off and Clarkson asks who wrote 'Penis' on his helmet, which Hammond replied that he did. Since May was too far back, the other two decided to buy him a statue which they christen as 'Darcey Bussell'. Along the way, Hammond knocks some bins and a toll booth sign over with his galleon, ruining it. Atop a hill, to celebrate Clarkson's debut on a bike, Hammond and May give him a painting. Later at the hotel, while Hammond fixed the galleon as best he can, only to have a celling fan ruin it again, May and Clarkson persuade a few locals to spray paint Hammond's Minsk pink, resulting in a local girl painting the other bikes pink. The following morning, Hammond was mad at the two about the bike and didn't care if his galleon got hit by something again.(to be continued)
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