Ford timelord

[Pieman]

So the footage being stretched for YouTube caused a red herring - another puzzle piece done with.  I spoke to @Philmanns briefly earlier and he confirms it was the Nova too.

[quicksilver]

37 minutes ago, Pieman said:

So the footage being stretched for YouTube caused a red herring - another puzzle piece done with.  I spoke to @Philmanns briefly earlier and he confirms it was the Nova too.

It's bizarre how much that stretched footage of a Chevy Nova with a bent front does look like an AMC Matador so I can see how that became a possibility.

Sounds like that night at Wimbledon was a typically chaotic KLF event with them breaking the rules and spoiling it for everyone else by bringing the Pig onto the track. If you had to describe them in one word, 'unpredictable' would be a good choice.

[Pieman]

I would LOVE to have seen the reaction if they'd tried to race a sodding Humber Pig in a regular banger race!

[Richard_FM]

The saga of the Timelord throws up interesting things at every turn.

[Datsuncog]

Ah well, another theory debunked - but some excellent sleuthing there from the AS hivemind.

Sad that JLE's fate remains unknown - but I'll certainly sleep better tonight knowing that there's not another Timelord to account for...

[quicksilver]

10 hours ago, Pieman said:

I would LOVE to have seen the reaction if they'd tried to race a sodding Humber Pig in a regular banger race!

I don't think anyone could have stopped them if they really wanted to race the Pig

[egg]

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The British Library has acquired ‘The Acetate’, a rare disc containing the “only existing” physical copy of ‘1987 (What the F**k Was Going On?)’ from The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - later known as the KLF.

The reconstructed version of their debut studio album will be part of the British Library’s archived collection, The KLF Kollection, also containing all surviving KLF Communications master tapes.

The collection is due to become available to the public for one week only from 11:23AM on August 23, 2023, where visitors can listen to the recording for free via the Library’s Sound Gallery.

From then, the album will be available to listen to in the Library’s Reading Rooms in perpetuity for “research, inspiration and enjoyment”.

‘The Acetate’ is the only existing physical copy of the KLF’s debut record, officially credited to The Ice Kream Van, and was unpublished by KLF Communications in 2023.

https://mixmag.net/read/british-library-acquires-only-existing-physical-copy-klf-debut-album-news

[DodgeRover]

On 8/23/2023 at 10:37 PM, Pieman said:

I would LOVE to have seen the reaction if they'd tried to race a sodding Humber Pig in a regular banger race!

Send it out with the Imperials and Rodius's.....

[Vivaro]

On 8/23/2023 at 8:21 PM, Rod/b said:

This all fits too. 
 

 

 

It goes on to say that someone drove the armoured car onto the track at the end, and the marshalls had to get it out the way of the other pop star cars. My bet is that they cleared all the other cars off and just let Jimmy and whoever was in the armoured car go at it while Bill Butt shot it. 

"It was the drugs he was on"  The word "twat" springs to mind...

[Rod/b]

9 hours ago, Vivaro said:

"It was the drugs he was on"  The word "twat" springs to mind...

Yeah he was probably the only person ever to go banger racing after consuming some recreational pharmaceutical products…

[Dave_Q]

Years before people had beards or tattoos instead of a personality, drugs as a personality was a popular look

[uk_senator]

Right, that's the quarterly Timelord update read, I`m going to go listen to 3am (original mix) on loop for an hour, whilst driving backwards & forwards over Tower Bridge.. again.. 😂

[Philmanns]

On 8/23/2023 at 9:37 PM, Pieman said:

So the footage being stretched for YouTube caused a red herring - another puzzle piece done with.  I spoke to @Philmanns briefly earlier and he confirms it was the Nova too.

Cauty drove the Nova around until he smacked it into the Armco, directly in front of me. I had an old (probably 135mm) camera that jammed as I was snapping away, much to my irritation. The front wheel assembly was mostly ripped away from the car and it was game over. After the race had finished the Nova was dragged in front of the Grandstand and Cauty wedged the throttle open leaving it to burn out and attempt to blow the engine. The latter didn’t happen so then he got into the Humber Pig and rammed the car repeatedly until I think the officials put a stop to it.  When I spoke to him afterwards and got my programmed signed, I asked him about the filming Bill Butt had been doing and if it would ever be made available. He said it was just for their archives. They didn’t prepare the Nova at all, it was done by Paul Bickers.

[quicksilver]

I got an unexpected reminder of Ford Timelord at the BL show yesterday. Lurking in the car park, too big to fit in a space, was this huge slab of Yank iron: a 1971 Ford Galaxie 500 very similar to JLE 67K.

[Bren]

2 hours ago, quicksilver said:

I got an unexpected reminder of Ford Timelord at the BL show yesterday. Lurking in the car park, too big to fit in a space, was this huge slab of Yank iron: a 1971 Ford Galaxie 500 very similar to JLE 67K.

What a honey. Would.

It needs black steels.

[trigger]

That's gorgeous! 

[Philmanns]

I went to the screening of this at the BFI on Monday evening. It was good to see most of the videos on the big screen with decent sound. There was a Q&A afterwards with Bill Butt the director, he was very entertaining. It was suggested in the discussion that the car banger raced was Ford Timelord, of course we all know it wasn’t. It’s also stated as being FT in the DVD also. I’m surprised that it wasn’t considered that many would be able to see that it’s a different year, make & model of car.

 

https://shop.bfi.org.uk/23-seconds-to-eternity-dual-format-edition.html

[Philmanns]

 

[Pieman]

Outstanding footage there, great to see the Nordoff Robbins race at last.  As mentioned in the interview Cauty is clearly as high as a hang-glider - he can't even keep the Nova in a straight line!

[egg]

I came across a Cauty story I hadn't heard before...

https://l-13.org/2020/07/01/archive-annotations-jimmy-cauty-bad-car-bad-art-unused-first-day-cover/

In 2006 Jimmy Cauty bought a second car for £4,000 that didn’t work properly.* When the car dealer refused to give him his money back he had the car crushed and exhibited it on the road outside the car dealership.

Jimmy had hoped the crushed car would look great as a work of art, but as it didn’t we decided that a Bad Car would inevitably make Bad Art. 

We then devised a complex scheme where we successfully got the car dealer to buy the work of art. This involved L-13 lending £4,000 to the dealer so he could buy the the Bad Art directly off Jimmy so he got his money back. The car dealer then gave us back the Bad Art to clear his debt and we gave him 1p so he could show a profit from his art investment. This meant that L-13 was £4,000 short of cash but we owned the art. Rather than try to sell that we issued stamps and prints celebrating the art work and the sale of those earned us our money back + a bit of profit, and everyone was happy.

* a Delica

could be this?

 

[Pieman]

I don't understand that.

Then again, I've never pretended to understand anything Jimmy Cauty does...

(As for Timelord, nothing since it was SORNed in 2022.)

[sheffcortinacentre]

Video has just been on that's TV.🚔📢🚔🤖