Infamous Shite in History.

[UmBongo]

The World's End Pub murders in 1977.

 

For your delectation, Angus Sinclair's camper van.

 

 

 

[sierraman]

DVLA say it no longer exists. So I gather it got clunked after he put a gun in his head and bought it. I'm amazed the pug taxi got another 10 years or so. I would have thought it would have got skipped after somebody died in it.

[Pilkicadadoodle]

The unsolved murder of business woman Penny Bell, who was found stabbed over 50 times in her Jaguar XJS.
She was seen with a passenger driving slowly along the road, her hazard lights flashing. 

[flat4alfa]

What must happen to get an armoured W126 this lop-sided?

 

A well-angled clout into an E32 by the looks of things

 

[mercrocker]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Morris Minor car in which Michael John Gregsten was murdered on the A6 road at Deadman's Hill, Bedfordshire, after it was found abandoned in Ilford, Essex. James Hanratty was later convicted of the murder and hanged (one of the last people to do so in Britain)

[mercrocker]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One close to my heart.....Rock and roll guitar legend Eddie Cochran died in this Consul in Chippenham, Wiltshire in April 1960 when he was being taken back to the airport to return home to the USA after a tour date at Bristol Hippodrome. Fellow rocker Gene Vincent (and Cochran's girlfriend) were also in the car. This tragic loss of a talented young musician is still commemorated every year near the hospital to which they were all taken.

[flat4alfa]

 

I recall an image of a mid-80s (possibly) East German terrorist group who got busted in some way, the footage was of a police taped off Mk1 BX with its bonnet and boot open. I always wanted to know what that was about.. Ring any bells with anybody?

 

j-j: The provisional IRA murdered two London-based Australian solicitors in Holland in the early 1990s after they were mistaken for off-duty British military personnel, by virtue of the fact that they were driving a British-registered BX:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Spano ... en_Melrose

 

 

 

Serck and Fiat Mirafiori content.

[flat4alfa]

On Saturday, 21 March 1981, Mike Hailwood set off in his Rover SD1 with his children Michelle and David to collect some fish and chips. As they returned along the A435 Alcester Road through Portway Warwickshire near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden, a truck made an illegal turn through the barriers into the central reservation, and their car hit it. Michelle, aged nine, was killed instantly; Mike and David were taken to hospital, where Mike died two days later, aged 40. David survived. The truck driver was fined £100.

 

 

S-registered, so with those wheels, a V8-S ?  I don't recall those side decals though

 

Tragic loss, daughter too.

 

So the fine in in today's money just was just £380 !

[sierraman]

What a horrible accident that must have been to attend. I know we all rubbish modern cars but if this had happened now, what with ABS etc he would likely have stopped in time and if he didn't the accident would no doubt have been less tragic what with the improvement in crashworthyness.

[Junkman]

When your number is up, you go, regardless with which safety devices you surround yourself.

[mercrocker]

There is also, unfortunately, the factor of people driving up (or down) to the perceived additional safety factors stuff is supposed to have these days. I tend to agree with Junkman's fatalistic approach.

[stormee]

A well-angled clout into an E32 by the looks of things

 

Another Gladbeck-pic.

[flat4alfa]

 

The George Michael Snappy Snaps incident.  Forever associated with spliffed L322 Range Rovers.

[Parky]

I'm not surprised Essex 5-0 sold that Range Rover on.

 

I've just looked through those pictures and been amazed by the condition of it, good tailgates, no rot, headlining still up and its an early SE (from the first 9 months of production) for collector value.

Then I found it was only 7 years old at the time of those pictures.

I know the scenes of crimes officer who led that investigation, I will ask him why they didn't tear the fuck out of it like they normally do

[fordperv]

Viv graham's sapphire cosworth

 

 

For those who dont know the story, it goes that a hit man smashed the drivers window of viv grahams (a well known underworld character) sapphire cosworth to get him out of the house then shot him 3 times on new years eve 1993

 

later it became a demo car for castle performance in newcastle under lyme, it lives on today and is still on road

[Datsuncog]

Conservative MP and Shadow Northern Ireland Minister Airey Neave's Mk1 Cavalier, following the detonation of an INLA bomb which killed him while leaving the Houses of Parliament underground carpark in March 1979.

Security to the HoP car park was stepped up as a result. I first saw this picture in an 'Illustrated History of the 20th Century' library book as a kid, and it made me stop because it looked so ordinary on one level (Cav coming out of a car park), and so definitely not ordinary on another.

As an ex-WW2 army officer on the cusp of becoming the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Neave was seen by militant Republicans as a "legitimate target".

Some more moderate Nationalists however despaired at the killing, as Neave's wartime experiences as a POW in Colditz had left him with an abiding hatred of torture and human rights abuses. He had already vowed to gather evidence and take action in his capacity as SoS against allegations of brutality and collusion by elements of the security forces in Northern Ireland.

Then-SDLP leader Gerry Fitt commented at the time, "those responsible for his death may have killed a friend rather than an enemy."

[flat4alfa]

 

It was posted on page 1 as above, but yes, glad you've written up some of the background. 

 

I remember it well, the newspapers anyhow, and likely this was the one when I was a child that made me hear about the IRA (and offshoots) and what they could do

 

  

 

I've also never forgotten it was a Cavalier either, but never did know what colour it was back then as the photos were black and white.  It was blue

 

 

Which begs the question why the Iron Lady film portrayed it as red and since messed with my head

 

 

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_470556-Vauxhall-Cavalier-1979.html

[flat4alfa]

IRA bomb outside the Old Bailey in 1973

 

 

Likewise the Triumph 2000 photos were black and white.  This car was blue too

 

 

What a macabre way to find out car colours of infamous photographs.

 

But it was Halloween only a few hours ago.

[flat4alfa]

 

Van used by IRA terrorists in the attempted attack on Loughgall RUC station. The SAS were waiting, and shot dead 8 Provos.

 

Just read up on this.  It wasn't 'attempted', they pretty much succeeded, by breaching the base's perimeter fence with a digger that had a bomb in its bucket

 

The IRA's attack involved two teams. One team would drive a digger with a bomb in its bucket through the base's perimeter fence and light the fuse. At the same time, the other team would arrive in a van and open fire on the base, with the goal of killing three RUC officers as they came off duty

 

Hang on.  This one's blue too.

 

 

[flat4alfa]

This one really opened my eyes as a kid, the "Corporals murders" where those two poor blokes were dragged from their car and beaten to death. Even at the time the fact it was a VW Passat seemed incongruous;

 

http://www.pacemakerpressintl.com/displayPhoto/showPhotoImage/id/164252

 

 

 

Tragic event.  I remember the footage of the FX4 taxi racing off carrying them still alive, off to be killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaFFYtKD2V4

[Guest Hooli]

Being reminded of stuff like that is why no-one takes isis seriously, the IRA etc were proper terrorists.

[Parky]

Airey Neaves murder was my first experience of the barbarity humans were capable of inflicting on each other. For weeks I was convinced the IRA were after my family too. Some kids were scared of the bogeyman at the age of 6, Whereas i was scared of Irish terrorists

[D Spares & Tyres]

Likewise the Triumph 2000 photos were black and white.  This car was blue too

 

 

What a macabre way to find out car colours of infamous photographs.

 

But it was Halloween only a few hours ago.

Ford cross flow engine on the ground?

[flat4alfa]

Ford cross flow engine on the ground?

 

Scotland Yard stated it had warned the City of London police at 14:01 to search near the Old Bailey for a green Ford Cortina; the car was not located until 14:35 and exploded at 14:49 while police were evacuating the area

 

The voice provided the wrong license number, saying it was YNS 649K, instead of the correct YSN 469K

 

[Hendry]

My uncles ex wifes brother was a soldier and was murdered by the IRA aged only 18. Horrific!

 

Im not entirely sure why but the IRA/UDA/UVF and Norn Iron conflict has always intrigued and interested me. Of course living in Glasgow sectarianism is still rife, it will never be gone as long as theres people raising their kids into it, and all the names that go around, Dirty Orange Bastard, Fucking Orange Hun the Catholics call the Protestants, and the Catholics get called Papes, Taigs, Fenian bastards etc. 

 

2 of my favourite films are Patriot Games and In The Name Of The Father, i think it was those which sparked my interest. 

[Negative Creep]

You might want to look into what their doing in the Middle East...

 

 

Or yesterday in New York....

[warren t claim]

Wow. Thread from the dead!

[Datsuncog]

On 11/1/2017 at 4:00 PM, flat4alfa said:

It was posted on page 1 as above, but yes, glad you've written up some of the background. 

Ah - another Photobucket victim. When I saw the thread, Neave's crumpled Cav was the first thing that popped into my head - so when I didn't come across the image while reading through the posts, I took it upon myself to add it in. This particular incident happened before my time, but growing up in Northern Ireland, the terrorism threat was pretty much constant throughout the 80s and 90s - my town centre was carbombed by the IRA twice in the early 1990s, with a great deal of damage done (but no loss of life, thankfully). 

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I remember it well, the newspapers anyhow, and likely this was the one when I was a child that made me hear about the IRA (and offshoots) and what they could do

Why I think this particular image stuck with me was because, due to 'respect for families', car wreckage from bomb attacks was hardly ever shown on the local news - or if it was, it was from a distance and usually with a tarp over it while the forensics boys took it away. Despite this kind of thing being a horribly regular occurence, Neave's Cavalier was the first time I'd ever seen what a bombed car actually looked like - and I was horribly fascinated. 

I also seem to remember that the footage of the army corporals being dragged from that silver Passat during the IRA funeral procession and taken away to their deaths was only shown in full in Northern Ireland in the late 90s or early 2000s. There was quite a media flurry about the decision to finally show it as part of BBC NI's Spotlight programme, together with an interview with the priest who had to act as a mediator to recover the bodies later that day. Some very dark times.

I'll see if I can dig up any other pics of Troubles-era shite, if there's an interest here - I know I've a few archive folders tucked away of interesting shite from that time. I can appreciate that some may view it as somewhat morbid, but as historical images go they're absolutely compelling.

[flat4alfa]

Of course living in Glasgow sectarianism is still rife, it will never be gone as long as theres people raising their kids into it, and all the names that go around, Dirty Orange Bastard, Fucking Orange Hun the Catholics call the Protestants, and the Catholics get called Papes, Taigs, Fenian bastards etc. 

 

What?!  Even now??  I can't say I've heard any of those terms since my childhood

 

That stuff went away a generation ago down this way.  Nowadays it's all creeds and flavours getting on better, vs. islamic gangblinger intolerance of all those creeds and flavours that are getting on better

 

I've still got an old Rover though.

[flat4alfa]

Ford Broncos

 

 

Forever the OJ car.  Values are still affected as a result.  I'm told.

 

 

Less than two years later Ford would discontinue the Bronco and replace it with another F-series based SUV called the Ford Expedition