MOAR shite on telly

[Junkman]

Lookee: http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/news/general/800023092/david-walliams-allegro-sparks-mystery/

[FredTransit]

The Allegro is registered FAA

874K, which of course could not

be correct as the model was not

launched until May 1973.

Although shots involving the first

episode of Big School were all off

road, grounds, it would be illegal

for the car to be on the public

roads with a registration number

not allocated to it.

 

 

DER!! Out of shot are the runners ans police shutting the road effectively making it private land. Or its a total ringer. You decide......

[Faker]

DER!! Out of shot are the runners ans police shutting the road effectively making it private land. Or its a total ringer. You decide......

They can't be serious with that article! Common practise for film companies to change VRMs. Documentaries and films made on mainland GB, about N.I. Would always have mock up N.I. Registrations to look correct, they did not re-register cars, or import cars. The professionals also used fake registrations on some of their later cars (replacement capris used the reg of previous capris for continuity, or something like that).

[Junkman]

I would have never guessed the presi of the All-aggro club is such a fusspot.

[chaseracer]

"By Nick Larkin".

 

Well... say no more...

[Jim Bergerac]

As others have said, a good percentage of number plates used on film and TV are from other vehicles or fake altogether. A complete whopper of a non article.

[Ghosty]

The Quattro in Ashes to Ashes annoys Audi nerds, primarily due to the fact that RHD + V plate isn't possible.

[trigger]

There's a large part of this weeks Classic Car Weekly devolved to this story as well. 

[Spiny Norman]

Most TV cars are on false plates, mainly to protect the identity of the car's owner/ I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the TV & film companies have to get special permission from the Police to film in on any public road and the cops have to know the 'real' reg numbers of the cars being used.

 

The Quattro in Ashes to Ashes annoys Audi nerds, primarily due to the fact that RHD + V plate isn't possible.

 

UK Quattro on a V plate isn't possible. The first UK registered one was on a W plate, HYL 4W, the Audi press car later sold on to one of the journos from CAR magazine IIRC.

The A2A one was annoying because it wasn't even a 1979/80 Quattro, but the later one with the facelifted lights.

[Justin Case]

Obvious isn't it. An ADO 16 has had an Allegro bodyshell grafted on to it so it can go tax-free (as it would be registered before 1973) Think of it as the Austin equivalent of a coil-sprung Series 1 Land Rover

[Pillock]

Strange that the BBC haven't responded to queries regarding this. You'd think even with wars kicking off all over the world, they'd still have someone in the department responsible for answering stupid questions from journos with space to fill.

[CortinaDave]

The Life on Mars Cortina was wrong as well- it was a facelift 2000E which came out in oct 73, with an earlier GXL grille and a 71 false K plate.

 

I only noticed though because I'm a cortina nerd. Joe Public gives not a shit

[sheffcortinacentre]

fred can tell you loads re ashes to ashes as she supplied alot of the vehicles.

 

it tends to only be the character vehicles that have false plates.

 

re big school is it only me that sees lots of similaretes with the 90's show "the grimleys"?

[Lord Sterling]

Speaking of Shite on TV, that new annoyimg 'confused' advert has come out with some right shite. Firstly a Silver Montego Vanden Plas (C324 XRW) and a mk3 Golf. There was another car but I didn't catch it.

 

Wasn't the Montego on ebay sometime back?

[Ghosty]

The Life on Mars Cortina was wrong as well- it was a facelift 2000E which came out in oct 73, with an earlier GXL grille and a 71 false K plate.

 

I only noticed though because I'm a cortina nerd. Joe Public gives not a shit

Jeremy Clarkson noticed it too, he brought it up when Phillip Glenister was on Top Gear in 2006ish.