Bomber

[pompei]

Just been reading about Pat "Bomber" Roach. of Saturday afternoon wrestling and Auf Weidersehen Pet fame

During most of the 90s Pat Roach had a scrapyard on Arden Road, Saltley, Birmingham.

Anyone know any more about this?

[Station]

He was also a stuntman as well! Seems likely he did have a scrapyard.

[AXrescuer]

I saw that quote about the scrap yard on Wikipedia. I don't believe that all that is written on there is completely kosher!

[warren t claim]

I heard of the former Mrs Claim's mother that he owned a caravan site and was a bit of a tightwad.

[Rocket88]

Wasn't he originally from Cornwall?

[Justin Case]

I think that at one time (after he came to fame) he had a car sales site on the Stratford Road in Birmingham (Pat Roach Motors ?) which might have been the one that sold FSOs or Yugos. Does anyone else remember it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I think the scrapyard bit is true, as I remembe rmy brummie mate going on about it years ago.

[shite_meister]

Wasn't he originally from Cornwall?

Nope Birmingham, his character Bomber in Auf Wiedersehen Pet was from Bristol, not that I am an anal retard about the series or anything... Pat Roach also played a bad dude in Sean Connery's 80's bond return Never Say Never Again, he threw Sean about the place and generally slapped him about.

[Station]

Some brief research:

There's one in Birmingham at the back of Winson Green Prison, that specialises in Japanese cars. Not sure of the name now, used to belong to Pat Roach, the wrestler

And how blatant is this?http://www.bizwiki.co.uk/salvage-yards/ ... -roach.htmHis yard also appear in:

Car Is Born 1, A Episode 3Volunteers from the local college help Mark strip, clean and catalogue his second-hand car. Plus he heads down to Pat Roach's scrapyard for a crash course in spare part surgery.

[shite_meister]

Fuck I forgot that he was also on the receiving end of Harrison Ford's girlie-like fist (in comparison) in Indiana Jones:

 

[Lankytim]

He did indeed have a scrapyard near Winson Green prison, he also lived near me in Sparkhill (or his mum did). He used to park his brown Rolls Royce outside the terrace house in Foremans road (I think) and me and my mates would go round and dare each other to snap the lady off the grille.