Inappropriate cars.

[londonm]

It's Shepherds Bush, 1964, and a mod is cruising the Uxbridge Road. A Mk3 Cortina goes past. Does this ruin it for you as much as me?

[Junkman]

If I knew a tricky shyster, I'd have him obtain an injunction to withdraw the film from the market immediately.

Then I'd drag the producer out to the car park and shoot him. Twice.

[overrun]

I like Quadrophenia.

[dollywobbler]

Star Trek visits war-torn France, complete with 1980s 2CV.

[Wilko220]

See also many episodes of Life On Mars and the sequel of it set in the 80s with the Audi Quattro which I can't remember the name of. I remember the inappropriate appearance of motors causing a fair bit of harrumphing around here at the time.

[barefoot]

It's Shepherds Bush, 1964, and a mod is cruising the Uxbridge Road. A Mk3 Cortina goes past. Does this ruin it for you as much as me?

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Not as much as that WRTL Airtrace street lamp, which as everyone knows weren't introduced until 1978.

[Junkman]

Star Trek visits war-torn France, complete with 1980s 2CV.

And oranges.

During WWII.

In France.

Yanks...

 

*Pfffftrofl*

[mouseflakes]

 

I seem to recall this R16 appears in 'Gorillas in the Mist' just after a caption saying the year is 1969 - we all know the rectangular tail lights weren't around then.

 

I was so livid I kicked my gorilla hand ashtray across the room.

[8_tee_8]

It's Shepherds Bush, 1964, and a mod is cruising the Uxbridge Road. A Mk3 Cortina goes past. Does this ruin it for you as much as me?

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There's also a Renault 5 in the background in that bit of the film. Sticks out a bit

[John F]

Same applies to bikes.

 

In the 1963 film "The Great Escape", american character Hilts (played by Steve McQueen) rides a 1960s Triumph Bonneville from Lower Silesia to Switzerland - a distance of about 1,000 kilometres - dressed as an american, presumably on ONE tank of fuel since americans cannot speak German without sounding like total cunts... something they also manage to achieve with English.

 

 

But what spoilt that film most for me was the fact that NOT ONE SINGLE AMERICAN took part in the actual Great Escape, yet the film is crawling with the bastards.

[John F]

Staying with war films, what's a 1948 Land Rover doing in the Western Desert during WWII in this scene from the end of "Ice Cold in Alex"?

 

[chaseracer]

...But what spoilt that film most for me was the fact that NOT ONE SINGLE AMERICAN took part in the actual Great Escape, yet the film is crawling with the bastards.

 

They were clearly too busy capturing the Enigma coding machine...

[John F]

... or winning the Battle of Britain, if Pearl Harbour is to be believed

[Junkman]

'Eye Of The Needle' features a DKW Munga in WWII Scotchland:

 

 

American Graffiti, set in 1962 Modesto, features

 

a 1968 Chevrolet Caprice:

 

 

Post-1967 Citroen 2CV:

 

 

1963 VW Cabriolet:

 

 

It isn't restricted to cars (like in many other period films, too).

The pinball machines the Pharaohs are breaking into for petrol money weren't invented at the time the movie is set in.

The Ball Park game was made by Williams in 1968 and the Vampire and Skyrocket games were made by Bally in 1971.

In several scenes US Mail boxes can be seen with the white eagle on them, however those did not appear until 1971 as well.

 

Jayzuz, is I a fuggin nitpicker, or wot?

[John F]

Yes it did! I remember that.

[inconsistant]

It's Shepherds Bush, 1964, and a mod is cruising the Uxbridge Road. A Mk3 Cortina goes past. Does this ruin it for you as much as me?

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Is that blue car beyond the Cortina an actual Datsun 120Y (1973-1978)?

[Rusty Pelican]

Theres a Blaw Knox path finder road sweeper parked up in the beginning of Aliens as they walk to the compound .

What the hell a 60s Imp powered road sweeper was doing there ive no idea.

[barefoot]

It's not real you know

[Junkman]

Is that blue car beyond the Cortina an actual Datsun 120Y (1973-1978)?

Yes, and the white car appears to be a Capri MKII.

[chaseracer]

Is that blue car beyond the Cortina an actual Datsun 120Y (1973-1978)?

 

Yep.  There's an Allegro in the film somewhere too.

[HillmanImp]

My favourite is the cars in Sid & Nancy:

 

 

'I know, lets just stick a P reg number plate on it, nobody will ever notice.......'

[Richard]

I didn't mind the inappropriate cars in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, What I minded was that they were UTTER SHIT.

[HillmanImp]

Another Honda:

 

[Richard]

My favourite is the cars in Sid & Nancy:

 

 

 

'I know, lets just stick a P reg number plate on it, nobody will ever notice.......'

 

They also had Sid taking part in the Bill Grundy interview, which he didn't.

 

There's a Mk2 Golf with a prefix registration in that second picture.

[Rusty Pelican]

It's not real you know

What , not real !!!! , im gutted 

Its more to do with the fact its set on a distant planet in the dim distant future , theres no working ones of these down here so carting up up there just seemed a silly prop 

[chaseracer]

I didn't mind the inappropriate cars in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, What I minded was that they were UTTER SHIT.

 

 

[phil_lihp]

Life on Mars is one of the only TV series I ever watched in its entirety.  Several years later I got the DVD box set cheap on Amazon and it's still excellent - to be honest, I do like my cars but the odd slight inaccuracy makes no difference to me, nor to most viewers I'd imagine.  The infamous Gene Hunt Cortina is a mishmash of different models and (apparently) pretty ropey underneath but I wouldn't have known unless I'd read about it.  Ashes to Ashes was a poor followup in comparison though.  Couldn't get into it enough to follow the plot, let alone spot chod.

 

On the other hand, no idea what the film is about but those plate-swapped Hondas are pretty terrible attempts at period matching given they're at least a decade out!

[HillmanImp]

TBH, it doesn't really bother me either but the number plates in Sid and Nancy really bugged me when i first saw it for some reason. I would have preferred it if they just didn't bother.

 

When you are making a programme, you will never be able to get it spot on but 99% of the people will never notice. I bet there is a forum somewhere pointing out that they were using IBM 5170s designed around the 6 MHz Intel 80286 microprocessor in Ashes to Ashes when they were not actually released until 1984 when the police would have been using XT/370 with three custom 8-bit cards and the processor card (370PC-P) or some such.

 

Still did not get the premise behind that and Life on M.a.r.r.s though. Why could it not just be a cool programme sent it the 70's rather than some weird coma induced hallucination? Odd. It kind of ruined it for me. 

 

 

 

There's a Mk2 Golf with a prefix registration in that second picture.

 

I noticed that too. Why do the others and not that? Probably just parked there whilst he was in the casino putting a million on black.....

[Tayne]

Here's a post-'71 Land Rover 109 in Withnail and I which was set in 1969.

 

 

 

I still love the film though.

[eifion]

That's not the only inappropriate vehicle in Withnail & I. There's a whole row of 80's stuff as they drive round a roundabout at the start of their mistaken holiday. I'm with Tayne, though, it's such a good film I'm willing to forgive it, and the fact that it's always the same few period cars with them on the motorway.