Ashes to Ashes Tonight

[FredTransit]

If you look at the badly parked Luton, I was blocking parked cars but for some reason they thought nobody would notice

[bigstraight6]

Was that a mid-90s Rover 620 I saw when the bullion van left the depot?

It certainly was, what a blooper still, nice to see some proper period Talbot shite!

[blimp]

Maybe a very early prototype

 

[FredTransit]

And the reason me luton looks abandoned was it was blocking the other parked cars. It was decided nobody would notice the Rover.....

[michiel]

I didn't even notice the Luton

[FredTransit]

Funny cos I didn't notice the rover, I was looking at the transits. Anybody see me LWB as well? The stunt driver was reputed to have got quite a bit for that, I would have done it for a onner!

[Guest Tony Hayers]

Anyone notice how the Talbot managed to 'reverse' up the street on its own?As they were walking to the chippy you get the screenshot from the back of it showing the badge, and as they enter the front door the front end of it is showing! How did it move back 20' on its own I should stop looking for faults

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Fred, this forum will make your life hell once HD is widespread. Imagine the fuss first time someone notices a numberplate attached with the wrong type of screw.

[Father Ted]

It was decided nobody would notice the Rover.....

Nope, stuck out like a sore thumb, actually the screen shhot above makes it more obvious than it was on the TV (uness my x-y alignment is out)

[FredTransit]

Now HD, that's a thing we vehicle suppliers are not looking forward to. At least the classic suppliers aren't. It's just not possible to get a huge range of classic vehicles, so often you just have to make the best of a bad job. The owners of really mint cars and vans are often not up for them being abused!And as for Sky plus and online like iplayer, fook knows how we get away with anything!

[andrew e]

Oh well if your after a nice scraggy SD1 that can have its neck rung - I'm your man!

[Father Ted]

And if you want a K11 that can be blown up, thrown into the Thames, dropped off a tall building or covered in cardboard and made to look like a Samba then give me a call

fook, can you tell im pissed off with this car?

[andrew e]

Nitromors the whole thing execpt for two glossy red viper stripes

[55bloke]

You know what I have no idea. And if you didn't like that, you won't like what happens to the Dollies.....

I take it you mean the one that got picked-up by the scrap yard grab? Are you saying they actually wrecked more than one? I actually thoroughly enjoy this show, but it makes me wince when the destroy nice old cars. Same with Heartbeat- did anyone see the Hillman get rolled last week?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Heartbeat has always been bad for that - remember the 1969 Aston DBS getting bounced off stone walls?Oh, and shite, predictable story lines plus that irritating Tricia behind the bar that's been wearing the same thing since 1963.Now, if Heartbeat was set in the early to mid seventies........

[FredTransit]

You know what I have no idea. And if you didn't like that, you won't like what happens to the Dollies.....

I take it you mean the one that got picked-up by the scrap yard grab? Are you saying they actually wrecked more than one? I actually thoroughly enjoy this show, but it makes me wince when the destroy nice old cars. Same with Heartbeat- did anyone see the Hillman get rolled last week?

They bought three, one is left.....

[M'coli]

Did anyone spot the pre-production Maestro van in the blag scene?

[FredTransit]

Ah, not mine either but I know who it belongs to. If it helps, she wasn't over happy about it being in shot, it's her tow car....

[M'coli]

This is at 47:40 in, roughly:

[Karmann Ghiaman]

Well at least they DID fire up the quattro and drive it at some speed round the three cobbled streets it's filmed it in. While looking out for Sambas I also noticed the 'plot' going a bit haywire... Was Gene Hunt trapped in his own coma all along? Does the Victorian lezza have to go back and rescue him, perhaps from another iconic year like 1995 (when it might be set in Orpington with Mary Portas trapped in the Save the Children charity shop)?

 

My idea is to set the next one in the future with Chief Commissioner Hunt driving some sort of total shite hybrid, perhaps trying to save the NHS from a Tory government. Catchphrase is 'Don't forget to recharge the battery on the Nissan Smiley Eco-car.'

 

Something like that.

[Louise2cv]

They can't set it in the 90's, all the "prop" cars have been trashed through the scrappage scheme.

[FredTransit]

Think about it, if she has to go back to save Gene, she won't be going back to a different year. Anyway the production company requested the cars be mothballed, not sold. Trust me they would not do that if they were planning to change the era. This might be a fantasy drama, but it gets filmed in the real world. It makes poor financial sense to throw out all the cars and other props you already had, for just one series.

[RedSparrow]

Oh I see,

 

 

And they were brown an all!

 

Nicked from the Triumph Dolomite forum

[55bloke]

That is utterly heartbreaking!! They look like really nice examples too. They would have to offer me a SERIOUS amount of money to do that to any obviously cherished old car. What did they tell the people they bought them from?

[FredTransit]

As far as I know, nothing, I wasn't there though. I know one came via a dealer. Would you sell a car knowing that's going to happen?

[Father Ted]

Ah, but havent we had this argument before? You sell a car, thats it, gone from your life and there ends any say you have over what happens to it. If the new owner fits alloy wheels or go faster bonet stripes, what should you care? Its not yours. If the new owner blows it up for telly - again, you have sold it. You dont want anything nasty to happen to it, ever - dont sell a car. Otherwise, pocket the cash and move on.Im not saying its OK to keep wrecking old motors just for entertainment, but it happens & will keep on happening. If you dont want it to happen to your motor - just dont sell it. Presumably the cars were sold because the owners either a) needed the cash, or needed the space in their life.Its just my opinion, I know - but things (by this I mean anything material) are just transient in ones life and really you shouldnt get attached or upset by their presence or absence.

[Guest]

One was mint, one was nice, one was knackered and made to look tidy for a scene where it gets destroyed. What's the problem?

[RedSparrow]

One was mint, one was nice, one was knackered and made to look tidy for a scene where it gets destroyed. What's the problem?

Really?Thats not so bad then I guess. Still a bit sad though.

[55bloke]

Ah, but havent we had this argument before? You sell a car, thats it, gone from your life and there ends any say you have over what happens to it. If the new owner fits alloy wheels or go faster bonet stripes, what should you care? Its not yours. If the new owner blows it up for telly - again, you have sold it. You dont want anything nasty to happen to it, ever - dont sell a car. Otherwise, pocket the cash and move on.Im not saying its OK to keep wrecking old motors just for entertainment, but it happens & will keep on happening. If you dont want it to happen to your motor - just dont sell it. Presumably the cars were sold because the owners either a) needed the cash, or needed the space in their life.Its just my opinion, I know - but things (by this I mean anything material) are just transient in ones life and really you shouldnt get attached or upset by their presence or absence.

Very philosphical, and can't really argue with it, but if there's deception involved on the part pf the purchaser- "Yeah, sure, we're going to cherish it as if it's our own child!"- then it's a bit alarming.

[Mash]

It does also prove that brown Dolomites are not that difficult to come by. I'd be more concerned if they were wrecking much rarer machines that were down to handfuls.*cue Princess argument*