CIA Training film - Choc-full-of-UKchod!

[AXrescuer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3oW3hlUZYvY

[RedSparrow]

That is so cool! Thanks!

Don't know why the Star Trek theme starts at 6.00...

[ProgRocker]

"Internal Use Only" *sniggers*

[Cheggers]

Wow, that was filmed in 1974 in Ealing, where I was living at the time (as a 9-year-old)...happy memories

[barrett]

Hey, at 1:19 a Peerless GT drives by on the other side of the road. Class!

 

Edit to add: The library funk is amazing, and I piss myself every time they say 'Brown Roger'

[warren t claim]

Interestingly the following cars all seemed to be pretty powerful models, even the Escort looked like a Sport. I doubt any of them appear on a DVLA database and any curious shiter entering the reg numbers would end up shot on a tube train or similar.

 

Here's part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http% ... MyNzAyMjYy

[Shep Shepherd]

Very Sweeney-esque in places - I was expecting Regan and Carter to turn up in their Consul GT at any moment

[j-j]

That was magnificent! Thanks for sharing - sometimes I wish people still spoke like that. Ditto on the Star Trek music and Shaft theme tune but God the Wah-Wah is funky!

[maximalist]

The not so funky STASI version

The first five minutes are enough.

[Shep Shepherd]

sometimes I wish people still spoke like that

 

Some of us do - I sound a bit like "Brown Roger"

[j-j]

sometimes I wish people still spoke like that

 

Some of us do - I sound a bit like "Brown Roger"

 

Orsums

[warren t claim]

What qualities do we think would make an excellent surveillance car in 2012?

[autofive]

strange that a CIA film was produced in London. I wonder if it was originally a police / MI5 film and simply used by CIA. I can't imagine many americans would know what a vauxhall magnum looks like

[synx508]

AXrescuer - that's fantastic, thanks for posting a little window into the real life version of "CI5". I've eaten at the pub that they drive past near Uxbridge, it's now a pretty good Indian restaurant.

 

I would expect MI5 to pick similarly anonymous and common cars to do this sort of work today. I suppose that would be a VAG product, thinking about it! How times have changed, only 10 years ago I'd probably have said a Ford or Vauxhall.

[MrDuke]

The one (and possibly only) thing I really like about the AshtrayVan is its complete and utter invisibility - I can park it literally anywhere and no-one ever complains or even looks at it. I suspect that if I donned a hi-vis and white helmet, and carried a clipboard, I could surveil* to my heart's content, completely undetected. Also, if the target makes an unexpected departure in their V8 SD1, I can keep up with my TURBO yo.

[warren t claim]

I'm thinking of something discreet but petrol powered for quietness whilst idling and accelerating. Deffo need a big fuel tank and plenty of oddment space for stuff. Got to look not out of place anywhere.

[autofive]

I'm thinking of something discreet but petrol powered for quietness whilst idling and accelerating. Deffo need a big fuel tank and plenty of oddment space for stuff. Got to look not out of place anywhere.

 

5 series beemers, volvos and v6 mondeos are used by police for discreet follows (and armed discreet follows) in durham

(the police driver training school is in durham ) although some 4x4 are used too

 

but local council and DHSS use smaller cars and vans.

 

MI5 - who knows, their budgets are huge, and staffed (like special branch) from the M.O.D.,

what do army / raf / navy use as staff cars these days? - that provide clues