Somehow, Motortrend just got clearance for Series 1. For the first time in over a decade, the BBC has allowed someone to air it. And they come bearing gifts!
A slideshow of studio production stills that probably no-one outside the BBC has seen since 2002:
I have a feeling that one or more of these pictures might be from the pilots. I'll have to go through each episode and see what they were wearing in order to confirm or deny these suspicions. From the picture I found on an issue of the magazine, it seems Clarkson wore an all-black outfit.
Of course, I'll need to go over it and see if they've cut anything out (likely the phone-in competitions), but it only heightens the need for these to have public releases in case the episodes were ever to get pulled again. If you're interested, send me a PM between now and December 20th or read the Top Gear/Grand Tour subreddits on that date. I'll have something very special (and very big) ready that I've been working on for the past 2 years.