Cars and the Stars!

[Garythesnail]

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[Doctormop]

3 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

In an early episode makepeace drove a mini

I seem to remember in The Pilot episode Makepeace had a red Mini that got flipped onto its roof by ruffians,

The next episode She had a black Mini that ended up in a scrapyard crusher with both heroes inside.

Their Governor (Spikings) had a Mk 2 Granada.

[Roobarb]

...just please be careful with my doors...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

12 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Jeff Randall in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) had a base Vauxhall Victor FD (2 litre).

Jeanie (Hopkirks widow) had a Mini (BAP 245B) which is still on the road.

But I loved the Victor, and yearn for a VX4/90.

Jeff's Victor wasn't a base model , it was an SL with the snazzy black and chrome wheelcovers and separate back seats. .i could never understand , as a kid, that he was always skint but had such a flash car.

[tul66]

[wesacosa]

[anonymous user]

Sorry, couldn't find a pic of them with their owner, Formula 1 Champion James Hunt.

[flat4alfa]

I'm sure this has been done umpteen times but am too hungover to argue ?

 

[martc]

Ducks...

But seriously folks I cannot separate these two from this car,they must have wrecked hundreds of them (something copied by the Dukes of Hazard decades later)-

And who knew they had one of the first ICE systems in the world?

[Braddon81]

[PiperCub]

Diana Rigg/Emma Peel/Lotus Elan - Amusing fact I read years ago.

Rigg really liked the Elan (who wouldn't) and she was asked by the producers if she approved of her character using one in The Avengers, she thought it was ideal. She had one question though, "I can't drive, is that a problem?". So that's why in early episodes of the show, she isn't actually doing the driving - either mocked up or using a stuntwomen shot at a distance, while she learnt and got her licence.

Used to happen quite often apparantly back in the day, John Gregson in the movie Genevive is another (had learnt to drive but hadn't time to pass his test before the film shooting started).

[PiperCub]

12 hours ago, Garythesnail said:

Does he still hold the record for biggest car insurance payout because of this crash & subsequent repair bill?

The biggest irony being that he made a packet on the car when he sold it a few years back as the value of McClaren's had soared! 

[Wack]

17 hours ago, inconsistant said:

So proud.

 

 

I saw Mollie Sugden in a mercedes at sandbach services about 20 years ago, she's just got out of it, it's funny when you see a face you recognise , I almost spoke to her as if I knew her then realised I didn't , I've only ever seen 2 people I recognise at the services, 6 months ago I saw the ice skater christopher dean , I did the same with him , Hi, er I don't know you do I , that was at sandbach services too ,Must be as far as a celebrity can travel in one go

[Stinkwheel]

Cor Bliney, Valerie Leon was a bit of alright, not sure of the best choice of her motor though.


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[bunglebus]

15 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

 

Cor Bliney, Valerie Leon was a bit of alright, not sure of the best choice of her motor though.

 

Mr Cleese disagrees 

[Jerzy Woking]

I like odd/coincidental connections too.

Christopher Dawes died along with his two passengers in 1999 when his McLaren F1 hit a tree on the A120 near his home of Merks Hall, Gt. Dunmow.

Not too long after, Liam Howlett, the genius behind The Prodigy, purchased Merks Hall. And he owned a McLaren F1 which he was often seen driving. He sold it (chassis number 023) as it was "too terrifying to drive". Sold the house too.

Can't find a photo of the car and him together though.

 

[inconsistant]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

I saw Mollie Sugden in a mercedes at sandbach services about 20 years ago, she's just got out of it, it's funny when you see a face you recognise , I almost spoke to her as if I knew her then realised I didn't 

"I used to speed about in a Porsche," she told an interviewer in 1995. "But seven or eight years ago I was done for doing 92mph on the motorway, so now I drive a Mercedes."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5713979/Mollie-Sugden.html 

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

Mick, Paul, Ringo, and George in the early days, before they could afford a van. 

[JeeExEll]

'Come on luv, do a doughnut.  And who's the bloke?'.

[JeeExEll]

[JeeExEll]

Depeche Mode looking for any Ghia bits for their Cortina.

[HMC]

Great ADO 16 appreciation going on. Plus Valerie Leon. Of whom with cars (yes there’s an e type somewhere in that middlepic)

[Motown]

7 minutes ago, HMC said:

Great ADO 16 appreciation going on. Plus Valerie Leon. Of whom with cars (yes there’s an e type somewhere in that middlepic)

I came here for the cars but found myself being distracted by cleavage ? Thaaanks!

[Psycho Charlie Knobcheese]

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[bunglebus]

23 minutes ago, Psycho Charlie Knobcheese said:

Don't keep asking me why Reg...

[HMC]

Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot; owner-drivers both.