OMG! NUKLEA APOKALIPZ!!!!

[ShiteRider]

With all the stuff going on with that angry fat fucker in North Korea, my mate Alan and i were discussing what we thought the repercussions of an atomic war would be on our lives.........

2 pints later this had morphed into a hypothesis on the whether they should of made a " Carry on Mad Max" with Bernard Bresslaw as the humungus and Dick Emery as wes.

2 more pints and we're argueing over who should have been Max and what would he drive, i reckon Peter Bowles in a limeflower marina coupe would've been an awesome mad max......like the apocalypse happened while he worked as a traveling carpet salesman.

Alan went more on a serious vein and reckons, Micheal Billington in a mk1 Capri. So...........if they did BRITISH Mad Max in the seventies who would be who, and what would they drive?

(Just a bit of fun cos i'm a little bit pissed)

[Andrew353w]

I've just watched an in-depth analysis of the current situation on the Korean peninsular on the BBC News channel; it covered the development and use of nuclear weapons by the North Korean regime and at the end of the feature the anchorman explained that anyone wanting to know more about North Korean nuclear weapons should use their TV remote & press the red button........

 

 

 

(If you think I'm pressing the RED button in connection with North Korea's nuclear weapons, you've another thing coming! )

[Partridge]

Simple-John Cleese should play Mad Max and drive a Ford Probe.

[vulgalour]

A Ford Probe? At least give him something to get angry about, we should reward* him with a Morris 1100.

[rml2345]

John Cleese is a good shout actually, but I think Paul Eddington in a Morris 1800 landcrab.

That would've been MEGA.

[MrDuke]

Surely the 'pursuit special' should be a mk1 Granny coupe (last of the V6s) with a dodgy plastic nosecone and an unfeasibly large air-filter sticking through the bonnet.

 

Max = Leonard Rossiter, Wes = Bob Grant, Humungus = John Cleese

[Partridge]

Hmmm...maybe not a Ford Pube then. Rocking the Paul Eddinton idea! If we wanted to go serious though, I think Will Hoy in a Touring Car would be epic.

[trigger]

I think Avlin Stardust was pretty much the UK's answer Mad Max, he would have driven a black Leyland Princess with a bulging Hemi sticking out of the bonnet FO' SU.

 

[Partridge]

Can I grab that off you as my Facebook cover?

 

But surely a Rover V8 would be more fitting?

[trigger]

Of course! and yes, I should really have stuck to the V8 for the British theme!

[ShiteRider]

How about Matthew Corbett as blaster and Sooty as master?

[Partridge]

Why thank you! I’ve spotted the reflection on the side of the black landcrab. Two of them? Were they specially equipped to survive the apocalypse?

I know a Rover V8 was dropped in a Marina by BL as an experiment, but never a Landcrab mind you. I wonder if it’s possible?

[Richard]

Can I grab that off you as my Facebook cover?

 

But surely a Rover V8 would be more fitting?

 

No it wouldn't. Not ever. Just say no.

[Micrashed]

Blackpool.....

In post apocalyptic world where giant spider creature is poised to take over and consume the natural resources.... And Md Max hs stopped off in his supercharged Hilman Avenger estate to get some candy floss

[Cavcraft]

Alvin Stardust once drove (well, was driven) past my house in an Austin Princess and he waved at us out of the window. It was something to do with The Milk Race*, which I seem to recall was Britain's rather hopeless version of The Tour de France.

 

*Insert your own jokes here.

[John F]

I don't think Britain would have a Mad Max. A "slightly ticked-off Max", perhaps. And he'd be passive-aggressive, so he'd be played by Steve Coogan or Ricky Gervais.

 

He'd drive a blue Maxi with MAXI written in large white letters on the back.

[RichardMoss]

Surely he'd be driving a mk4 Cortina with Wolfrace wheels and a fake air scoop on the bonnet? As for Max himself, I see Bernard Cribbins in the role.

[HillmanImp]

That picture is brilliant Trigger! Cheered me right up this morning.

[Partridge]

I don't think Britain would have a Mad Max. A "slightly ticked-off Max", perhaps. And he'd be passive-aggressive, so he'd be played by Steve Coogan or Ricky Gervais.

 

He'd drive a blue Maxi with MAXI written in large white letters on the back.

 

A “Bloody annoyed Max?�

[Bren]

Peter Bowles could never play the good guy - he plays cads' of the highest order.

 

He played a psycho in an episode of Space 1999 (his character was called "Balor"), he made such an impression on a canadian woman that she travelled to the uk to be "dominated by the most evil man in the universe".

 

Suffice to say PB had to get the local constabulary involved.

 

Not sure about a marina, a P6 with a V8 (of course), side exhausts a la AC cobra, boot mounted spare and chandeliers on the front wings like the duke's car in escape from new york.

[Shep Shepherd]

I can picture the late Michael Sheard who played Mr. Bronson in "Grange Hill" as a post-apocalyptic comprehensive school teacher who is willing and able to dish-out his own brand of corporal punishment:

 

"YOU BOY! YOU HAVE LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!"

 

Obviously, he'd have to drive something teacherly from the BL range, like a Marina HL

[RichardMoss]

Yes - he'd be perfect.

[MrDuke]

I don't think Britain would have a Mad Max. A "slightly ticked-off Max", perhaps.

 

He spends most of the film writing drily sarcastic letters of complaint to what remains of the local authorities, then moodily hurling them into a postbox. As the tension mounts, he starts trying to outwit the still-functioning automated switchboards at the council offices, before the grand finale sees him turning up at reception and demanding to see someone, complete with counter-thumping and moderately raised voice.

[ShiteRider]

He could spend the second half of the film hunting down a gang hoodies on 'fizzies' wanting to know "what the bloody hell they think they're doing!" and telling them that as the head of the neighbourhood watch he shall perform a citizens arrest.

[Junkman]

I closed my eyes and it all appeared right there in surprisingly clear pictures.

 

My 1970s British Mad Max is obviously Brian Deacon driving a flat black Datsun 120Y with fake sidepipes being the only mod. The Interceptor and Pursuit cars are Renault 12 TSes, Toecutter (Peter Cook) and Bubba (Warren Clarke) have 350 Jawas while the rest of the MC gang is MZ 250 mounted.