Incongruous Movie/TV shite

[Junkman]

There's at least one post-'67 final front Citroen DS in The Day of The Jackal, set in 1963.

 

 

Neither car in that pic existed in 1963.

 

There is also a 1966 Cadillac:

 

 

1970 2CV:

 

 

1965 Fiat 600D:

 

 

1965 Fiat 850 Coupe, 1968 Peugeot 504, 1973 Renault 16:

 

 

1969 Fiat 612N:

 

 

1966 Innocenti Mini Minor and 1969 Fiat 128:

 

 

1967 E-Type:

 

 

1967 Maserati Mexico:

 

 

Mini MKIII, A112, Renault 16:

 

 

1967 Opel C-Rekord:

 

 

1967 Opel C-Rekord Coupe:

 

 

Pug 304, Capri, R16, R6, Mini:

 

 

Pug 304 floppy, R16, GS, Fiat 850, Saviem:

 

 

1967 J7, R16:

 

 

Simca 1X01, R16, r6:

 

 

1972 Dubber camper, Knudsen Taunus:

 

[HH-R]

Anything that's glaringly out of place, anachronisms etc.

 

The cobbled together London shot from the dreadful 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

 

Looks like a Series 3 Bristol VR in the background. PHWOAR.

[sheffcortinacentre]

most of the time its due to the film companies expecting people to bring the correct vehicles midweek with a couple of days notice.

 

my mates hc viva est is in an upcomeing bbc comedy with peter kay set in approx. 73 they phoned at 11.30 am asking could he be in Manchester fot 5pm??

at 2pm they still weren't sure where the location would be??

 

then after using it for 2 days phoned the following week asking how wide the rear doors opened  as they needed shots of one of the characters getting out !!!

 

don't get me wrong its money for old rope but when it comes to vehicles most of them are useless.

[Richard]

In The Grimleys one of the characters had a terminally buggered Vauxhall Viva HC that couldn't have been more than three years old although, like the nine year old Jaguar in Withnail and I, it wasn't entirely implausible.

[Pilkicadadoodle]

In Halloween 4, Dr. Loomis' Chevrolet Malibu changes models just before it explodes at the petrol station: 

[Slappy]

Vanishing Point - Off the top of my memory, wasn't the vehicle that actually crashed into the bulldozers not a 1970 Dodge Challenger at all, but of things a Camaro?

 

Oh, and the climax of the original Mad Max where you can see a rig instead of a truck being used as a collision device.

[DSdriver]

I can understand how the mistakes happen, I was driving through Chatham Historical Dockyard (where lots of location work is done). Some bloke with a clipboard tried to direct me onto the set of a wartime movie/tv prog. I was in my daily driver, a 1970 Citroen DS Safari. It was built before he was born so to him must have looked the part.

[Taff]

1st series of The Walking Dead, where Rick arrives in Atlanta, Georgia.  

 

How on God's great planet did a British Army MkIX Chieftain tank get there? Eh? EH??

[Junkman]

most of the time its due to the film companies expecting people to bring the correct vehicles midweek with a couple of days notice.

 

I think everyone understands how difficult it is to get the right cars for a period production and the multitude of reasons why it doesn't always work out.

We're not citicising. We're merely documenting.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I probably spend too much time thinking about things like this,but the type of cars used in period dramas often annoys me .

How would a 1982 Policeman afford a Quattro in the first place let alone be allowed to use it on Police business. I worked just off Bow Street in 81-83 and the CID used Avengers and Hunters, that still had bells not sirens.

George Gently and his P5 in the first couple of series- up until 79 the British Prime Minister was driven around in P5b s. Certainly not transport for provincial Police Chief Inspectors.

I'm currently catching up on a great BBC series set in 1973 about MI5 called The Game. So far it hasn't annoyed me too much. A Special Branch Sergeant uses an Austin 1800 and the hero James Bond Jnr type has a V8 P6 which is maybe a bit much but then 007 had an Aston Martin. The head of MI5 played by Brian Cox is driven around in a P5 , which is feasible ,but it's a 3-Litre which would have been at least 6 years old by the time the programmes set,surely it would be easier to source a V8 that would look more in keeping.

There's a nice early Dolomite as the personal car of a techie,hippy type that seems completely wrong , some sort of Citroen or Renault would have been more suitable, a GS or R16 perhaps.

[Junkman]

Those P6es were obviously motor pool cars, since they were used at random by various members of the staff.

The main protagonist apparently didn't even own a car, since he used several different makes/models in the series,

all of them presumably pool cars.

The boss being driven around in a six year old P5 is completely plausible, Maggie was driven around in an older one.

What would not have been plausible is the boss being chaffeured in a P6.

 

Nah, The Game was exceptionally carefully made, including all the non automotive props.

 

I agree with George Gently and the P5 he had initially, I also thought this is a tad posh for a Chief Inspector.

But after they gave him a P6 2000 all was fine. Note that they gave him a P6 only after it was launched in 1963.

The first series were set before 1963 and thus a P6 would not have been available.

Let's discuss what he should have driven instead of a P5 in pre-63. A Consul, perhaps?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've only seen up to no.4 so don't tell me anymore.

Accept your point about the pool cars and I suppose the Security Services would have had some fast upmarket cars in the same way as you see them using Lexus, Audi etc when Toyotas and Skodas would do the same job now.

Can't help feeling that for the most part ( not The Game) modern film companies base period car choice on the Fords supplied to Euston Fims and ITC and not the Chryslers, Leylands and Vauxhalls that would have been at least as common.

[MarvinsMom]

i'm going to disagree with you about george gently driving the rover 3 litre.

 

the 3 litre was indeed a posh car, but he is a chief inspector, a fairly high ranking position in the police force.

 

by comparison, my grand father had one (a p5 3 litre) in the mid 1960's. he was a manager at ICI and he bought it new in 1963 (i think). that car passed onto my dad in 1968 before he sold it to pay for the deposit on my folks first house in 1972. 

 

he got £200 for it too.

 

and he still gets misty eyed over it now!

[Junkman]

Was a Chief Inspector in the same income group as an ICI manager?

[MarvinsMom]

i should have thought that the chief inspector would be on more money.

[Junkman]

Speaking of too expensive for the portrayed character - Toad tells us in American Graffiti (set in 1962) that Steve Bolander's '58 Impala has a 327 with 6 Strombergs.

Not bad for a high school kid, the engine was just launched that year and that carb battery on top wasn't cheap either.

 

[Tayne]

6 carbs?

On a V8?

[Junkman]

6 carbs?

On a V8?

 

Common practice, yes. Or 3 two throats.

[Tayne]

So each carb is then feeding 1 and a third cylinders?

[Junkman]

It doesn't work that way. They all feed an intake manifold for all cylinders. It's all about CFMs.

This is what allegedly was on Bolander's 327:
 

 

Or 3 twos, like on this original Mopar Sixpack setup:

 

[Asimo]

Getting a V8 to breathe evenly through less than eight seperate chokes is difficult because of the V8 firing order. The 6x1 and 3x2 carb. setups just show how hard folk tried to work around thIs problem.

 

http://www.stromberg-bulletin.com/tag/stromberg/page/14/

[Junkman]

More anachronisms in American Graffiti.

 

1967 Citroen 2CV AZA

 

The wheels on this '55 Chevy are from the 70s:

 

There are numerous non-automotive anachronistic bloopers in the film as well.

[New POD]

Nah, they've got the excuse that "none of it was real" for the ultimate cop out. (no pun intended).

 

Even the Cortina was a 1974 on false plates, and don't forget the knackered and rusty Avenger estate that would have been a mere one year old!

 

 

 

We had a 1974 Avenger brand new, and before we moved house in 1978, it had to have 2 front wings bodged due to the rust, so I don't think it's unfeasibly shite.

[Richard]

Are these Datsun Sunny wheel trims?

[Justin Case]

Over 50 posts and no mention yet of the notorious Routemaster in Foyles War? Only eight years too early

 

Apparently the outside scenes were shot in Dublin as it looks more like London than London, but unfortunately there aren't any RTs in Ireland.

[Ghosty]

Nobody's mentioned Sid and Nancy this time.

[chaseracer]

Are these Datsun Sunny wheel trims?

 

 

Avenger GT.

 

[Negative Creep]

1st series of The Walking Dead, where Rick arrives in Atlanta, Georgia.  

 

How on God's great planet did a British Army MkIX Chieftain tank get there? Eh? EH??

 

 

And a Hyundai SUV thing that stayed completely clean of mud, dust and zombie bits

[DSdriver]

Speaking of too expensive for the portrayed character - Toad tells us in American Graffiti (set in 1962) that Steve Bolander's '58 Impala has a 327 with 6 Strombergs.

Not bad for a high school kid, the engine was just launched that year and that carb battery on top wasn't cheap either.

 

 

Perhaps he had a rich Dad?

[Junkman]

Then he wouldn't have got the scholarship from the Moose Lodge, no?