Ask a Shiter

[Barry Cade]

12 minutes ago, reb said:

In the Italian Job, when they're at Crystal Palace Raceway fecking the minis up a ramp with a wall at the end... what are they actually trying to achieve? Croker seems quite distraught at the outcome, but I can't see how it could possibly go any differently!

Weren't they practicing for coming out the sewer?  I think there was just a gate on the actual getaway... need to watch it again!

[reb]

10 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Weren't they practicing for coming out the sewer?  I think there was just a gate on the actual getaway... need to watch it again!

There was a couple of England fans holding the gate open for them, it was the police that drive through the gate!

[garethj]

9 hours ago, reb said:

In the Italian Job, when they're at Crystal Palace Raceway fecking the minis up a ramp with a wall at the end... what are they actually trying to achieve? Croker seems quite distraught at the outcome, but I can't see how it could possibly go any differently!

I think the film makers put it in to get a crash on the screen for shock value.  It’s kind of tied in to get into the bus at the end, if you stretch credibility a bit.

Looks easy to me

 

[Lankytim]

A mate of mine is doing the rear brakes on his Astra, the lower caliper bolt has this weird thing on the end of if,  does anybody know what it is? We can’t see why a normal bolt isn’t used. I can only think it’s some sort of damper. 

[Lord Sterling]

Right. Got 2 asks here. They're both TV related and probably quite odd and specific but the Internet is getting me nowhere.

1. Many years ago, I saw a TV police car wars type programme, it may have been Police Stop or Police Camera Action! Or one if those types of programmes. It's a very specific ask, but I remember one clip where 3 cars got stopped at once, there was an (original shape) Mini, an early Renault Espace and a Mk1 Rover Sterling.  I've never seen it since I watched it on TV and have never found the clip. Does anyone remember specifically which programme it was on?

2. This is more an ask for our European shiters,  especially those who know about German or Austrian TV films. In the early 00s, whilst living in Belgium, I remember seeing a German or Austrian TV film. I don't know the name as I only watched from around a halfway point after randomly finding it on a European TV channel. 

The latter half of the film centred around an increasingly obsessed bloke driving a black BMW E34 535i chasing a young woman in a Renault Clio. He keeps driving in a dangerous manner and gets crazier sometimes crashing off the road. The woman has a flashback to a being chased on foot in a tunnel whilst the man is driving a W210 Merc at her.

Towards the end he follows her to a church where a wedding is taking place, he sits next to her, somehow she manages to escape and takes another car, as does he and they end up having showdown, they drive at each other, at the last moment he panics and crashes into lake and drowns.

The film *may* have been made by those behind the popular German TV series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei  but there is some doubt as I can't find any references and the car chases were not as wild.

I'm desperately trying to find either of these.

I've looked on imcdb etc... but cannot find anything.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Lord Sterling said:

Right. Got 2 asks here. They're both TV related and probably quite odd and specific but the Internet is getting me nowhere.

1. Many years ago, I saw a TV police car wars type programme, it may have been Police Stop or Police Camera Action! Or one if those types of programmes. It's a very specific ask, but I remember one clip where 3 cars got stopped at once, there was an (original shape) Mini, an early Renault Espace and a Mk1 Rover Sterling.  I've never seen it since I watched it on TV and have never found the clip. Does anyone remember specifically which programme it was on?

2. This is more an ask for our European shiters,  especially those who know about German or Austrian TV films. In the early 00s, whilst living in Belgium, I remember seeing a German or Austrian TV film. I don't know the name as I only watched from around a halfway point after randomly finding it on a European TV channel. 

The latter half of the film centred around an increasingly obsessed bloke driving a black BMW E34 535i chasing a young woman in a Renault Clio. He keeps driving in a dangerous manner and gets crazier sometimes crashing off the road. The woman has a flashback to a being chased on foot in a tunnel whilst the man is driving a W210 Merc at her.

Towards the end he follows her to a church where a wedding is taking place, he sits next to her, somehow she manages to escape and takes another car, as does he and they end up having showdown, they drive at each other, at the last moment he panics and crashes into lake and drowns.

The film *may* have been made by those behind the popular German TV series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei  but there is some doubt as I can't find any references and the car chases were not as wild.

I'm desperately trying to find either of these.

I've looked on imcdb etc... but cannot find anything.

How are you coping with the new meds? 😀