Ford timelord

[bunglebus]

12 hours ago, Pieman said:

Phil has said this about the paint incident: "I took it along to take part in their "Welcome to the Dark Ages" event in Liverpool.  The car was shown in the BBC news footage which for some reason pissed them off.  They claimed I'd tried to upstage them thus painted white gloss paint over it.  I was there to support a band that I'd followed for 30 years, there was no intent to upstage them."

 

I'd always assumed that video of it getting covered in paint was all a pre-arranged publicity stunt. Good old KLF eh?

 

Well done to all involved in the detective work/badgering people about a rusty old yank 99% of people wouldn't give a shit about. RIP Timelord.

[Mrs6C]

7 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

 

I'd always assumed that video of it getting covered in paint was all a pre-arranged publicity stunt. Good old KLF eh?

Presumably there was an amount of pre-meditation by KLF, unless they usually kept a tin of white gloss paint to hand for such occasions?

[LightBulbFun]

thread been moved I see  (and much like the car itself sorta/an actual time lord, the thread now exists in 2 locations at once!)

(is this the first thread to be moved from the another section to the main forum, rather then from the main forum to another section?  )

 

[Split_Pin]

9 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Presumably there was an amount of pre-meditation by KLF, unless they usually kept a tin of white gloss paint to hand for such occasions?

Unforgivable if this was not something pre-arranged with the consent of the owner.

[Bren]

If the thread needs moving then I am easy with it.

When I started it I had no idea it would run this long or generate so much interest.

Thank you to those that put their detective hats on - sad to think the car has been gone nearly 30 years and at the height of the KLF's fame (notoriety?)

As for the replica being covered in paint - as the saying goes "never meet your heroes."

[Dan_ZTT]

11 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Presumably there was an amount of pre-meditation by KLF, unless they usually kept a tin of white gloss paint to hand for such occasions?

Given their tendency to be utterly mental, I wouldn't be surprised if they did carry a tin round with them. I'd like to have seen their rider when they were doing gigs...

[sierraman]

Next question, is the Nissan Bluebird still at the foot of the cliffs? 

[Lord Sterling]

And also, what of the 1/25 model of the Galaxie used in the 'Last Train to Trancentral' video? ?

[Bren]

I have managed to get a copy of the nme from 17 oct 1987 - it covers the trip to Sweden.

[bunglebus]

5 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

And also, what of the 1/25 model of the Galaxie used in the 'Last Train to Trancentral' video? ?

 

Now that is something I'd love to find!

[flat4alfa]

Could make your own

[Pieman]

Give me a link to where that is sold please.  I now want to complete my research by making a model Timelord.

[bunglebus]

I'd be up for making a replica. Guess what though - there were two of them...

[flat4alfa]

Well as mentioned earlier in this thread, the model used in Last Train To Transexual  was a '64 Galaxie

#TL1 was a '68 Ford Galaxie 4-door sedan, AFAIK only the two-door hardtop was produced in 1/24 1/25 and that was by AMT

#TL2 was a '71 Ford LTD 4-door sedan, AMT kit shown above

#TL3 was a '75 Chevrolet Nova.  Should be something out there

/ three cars, to be pedantic

[flat4alfa]

Might as well knock up a Nissan Bluebird with wings and the Bedford CF Ice Cream van while you're at it  ?

[bunglebus]

5 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Well as mentioned earlier in this thread, the model used in Last Train To Transexual  was a '64 Galaxie

#TL1  was a '68 Ford Galaxie 4-door sedan, AFAIK only the two-door hardtop was produced in 1/24 1/25 and that was by AMT

#TL2 was  a'71 Ford LTD 4-door sedan

#TL3 was a '75 Chevrolet Nova

There were two...

 

The model we see initially that's in the action shots, and the very nicely detailed one seen "flying" later in the video (with someone's hand clearly holding it). I would guess that especially this second one was modified from an available model as the chassis is clearly very well defined, wouldn't get that with a studio mock up

 

 

 

 

 

[bunglebus]

18 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Might as well knock up a Nissan Bluebird with wings and the Bedford CF Ice Cream van while you're at it  ?

 

Talking of which, where is the ice cream van? Is this the original?

 

[Pieman]

Have you just opened the next can of worms?

[500tops]

?

[bunglebus]

Better screenshots without progress bar

 

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[Rod/b]

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F193116307297

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There were two...

Ah well, I was on about real cars, not Timelords in miniature

So, for real OCD completeness, that makes EIGHT models to build-replicate! The winter nights will be a conveyor belt of sprue and glue ?

#TL1 - ‘68 Galaxie in original TL livery

#TL1B - ‘68 Galaxie in whitewash 

#TL2 - ‘71 LTD

#TL3 - ‘75 Nova

#TLminiature1 - ‘73-77 Buick Regal

#TLminiature2 - ‘64 Galaxie

‘72 Bedford CF, Morrison bodied 

‘88ish Bluebird, optional wings

 

 

Oh hang on. What about the tanks?

Arghhh

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Rod/b said:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F193116307297

That’s  on page 2 or thereabouts 

[quicksilver]

15 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Ah well, I was on about real cars, not Timelords in miniature

So, for real OCD completeness, that makes EIGHT models to build-replicate! The winter nights will be a conveyor belt of sprue and glue ?

#TL1 - ‘68 Galaxie in original TL livery

#TL1B - ‘68 Galaxie in whitewash 

#TL2 - ‘71 LTD

#TL3 - ‘75 Nova

#TLminiature1 - ‘73-77 Buick Regal

#TLminiature2 - ‘64 Galaxie

‘72 Bedford CF, Morrison bodied 

‘88ish Bluebird, optional wings

 

 

Oh hang on. What about the tanks?

Arghhh

Don't forget Bill Drummond's Chevy Caprice from the 1997 K Foundation event (pic somewhere in this thread). Oxford Diecast do a nice 1/43 Morrison CF so that one's easy to model, not sure about the others though.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

This is such a great thread and story, really great work gang.

 

I feel sorry for the guy with the replica timelord though. I love the KLF (especially after reading John Higgs' splendid book about them) but that seems like a real twats trick to play on an admirer.

[quicksilver]

Of course, if we really want to carry on hunting Timelords there's still the question of what happened to the Chevy Nova. From the photos and reports of the charity race, it seems Jimmy retired quite early on when the car was still mostly intact and chances are it returned from the meeting to Bickers's yard. What became of it after that though? I suspect it was raced again shortly afterwards, either by Paul Bickers or someone else, as scrapping or leaving it to rot would be a waste of a fully-prepped car.

[Pieman]

*reaches for the phone*

[flat4alfa]

NINE Models to build then

 

#TL4 - '79 Chevrolet Caprice 4-door sedan

( BOF 575T, Tax and MOT expired May 2011 )

And here's a 1/25 paper model.  DO PAINT

[Bren]

I read the article in the NME. The car did indeed finish off a moose. No pictures due the camera equipment being driven over in an attempt to get away from an irate farmer with a gun.

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

I read the article in the NME. The car did indeed finish off a moose. No pictures due the camera equipment being driven over in an attempt to get away from an irate farmer with a gun.

This story just gets more comedic and chaotic with every post. ?

There's surely got to be scope for a book here.