somewhatfoolish Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 How come we don't have a thread for this? "Tutti Frutti" on BBC4 is pure hoatching with 1986 shite; the band's van is a shagged Mk2 Transit and the guitarist's Mk3 Cortina isn't much better. Grimy post-industrial Glasgow supplies most of the street scenes. privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I don't watch much telly but can distinctly remember a tidy looking Nissan Cherry, on a Y plate I think, randomly appearing in an episode of Eastenders not that many years ago. Perhaps there's a warehouse full of tin like that which is occasionally pressed into use for a particular storyline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 The latest series of the crown has had a veritable cornucopia of 90s chod in it… Although the Toyota Avensis in a scene set in 1995 did nearly have me calling points of view… GMcD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 8 hours ago, mk2_craig said: I don't watch much telly but can distinctly remember a tidy looking Nissan Cherry, on a Y plate I think, randomly appearing in an episode of Eastenders not that many years ago. Perhaps there's a warehouse full of tin like that which is occasionally pressed into use for a particular storyline? A Cherry N10 seemed to be on the screen for a long time back when I used watch Eastenders every so often. In the 1980s, maybe into the '90s, there was also a Marina which seemed to be a bit of a fixture - might have belonged toTony Carpenter? I'm still ploughing through Public Eye, recorded off Talking Pictures TV. The 1970s episodes are particularly good, with a decent amount of location filming meaning there's plenty of everyday cars to be enjoyed. mk2_craig and somewhatfoolish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timolloyd Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Down Among the Big Boys is on YouTube, here: Loads of mid-90s chod around Glasgow. The main villain (Billy Connelly) seems to be chauffeured around in a base-ish Carlton! davehedgehog31 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nullzwei Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 This Youtube channel has every series of Minder on it at the moment. Packed full of interesting old motors. Just make sure you have ublock origin on your browser to avoid the frequent interruptions. https://www.youtube.com/@TheComedySeriesInc/playlists Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I was reading that in many episodes of Knight Rider an AMC Gremlin can be seen as a background car. Like the Fiat 850 in The Sweeney it's thought it was owned by someone working on the series. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_31650-AMC-Gremlin-1973.html ProgRocker and Dick Longbridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 13 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: How come we don't have a thread for this? "Tutti Frutti" on BBC4 is pure hoatching with 1986 shite; the band's van is a shagged Mk2 Transit and the guitarist's Mk3 Cortina isn't much better. Grimy post-industrial Glasgow supplies most of the street scenes. https://autoshite.com/topic/49461-cars-in-filmtv-that-still-exist/ This was a similar thread you might have missed. I wanted to watch this but was away for a few days & can't record anything due to my TV ariel being out of action! Hopefully it will be on Iplayer for a while. My Dad really liked it back in the day. somewhatfoolish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Telly shite threads come and go all the time. For the last few years a movie car company has had a green K plate Rover 216 that's a bit of a slag and has shown up in several BBC things, and a Ribena ad where the colour's been digitally altered. A load of FB people were foaming as the bumper 'falls off' in that ad, but it's clearly been rigged as those bumpers are pish to remove, and they don't come off unless you're intending to remove them, they just get pushed back on their mounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The drama about John Stonehouse, that's coming up on ITV, looks like it might have cause to get all frothy about out of place motors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavieW Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I thought the title referred to the quality of TV content 🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The TV adaptation of Blott On The Landscape from the 80s had a few good cars - civil servant Dundridge (Simon Cadell) had a Metro, corrupt politician Sir Giles Lynchwood (George Cole) had a Vanden Plas SD1, he and his wife also had a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud which happily is still on the road today, and there's lots of background stuff including a Mk3 Cortina and (iirc) a Renault 16 which get crushed by a demolition crane. There's a Cressida which appears in a few background shots which I believe was owned by one of the production team, and a few police vehicles including a Maestro, an early Range Rover, another SD1 and a later Cortina plus a couple of early Transit ambulances. Shite Ron, eddyramrod and somewhatfoolish 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheIsleofShite Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 TR7 in the Detectorists, for anyone who hasn’t watched this I’d highly recommend, it’s very good television catsinthewelder, MiniMinorMk3, Fat_Pirate and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hennabm Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 HS25 is on a veteran car in Carry on screaming, driven by Harry H Corbet. Today it is on a 2020 Jaguar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alusilber Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 On 12/29/2022 at 5:44 PM, TheIsleofShite said: TR7 in the Detectorists, for anyone who hasn’t watched this I’d highly recommend, it’s very good television But is the boot of a TR7 really big enough to swallow two metal detectors and the associated tackle?🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_senator Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Has anyone noticed the Chrysler 180/2 Litre on the current Paco Rabanne advert? I`m sure there was one in a Churchill insurance advert as well about a year ago.. eddyramrod, Bren and warren t claim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Yes, although I did mistake it for an Avenger until it was brought up elsewhere on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 On 12/28/2022 at 9:19 AM, Nullzwei said: This Youtube channel has every series of Minder on it at the moment. Packed full of interesting old motors. Just make sure you have ublock origin on your browser to avoid the frequent interruptions. https://www.youtube.com/@TheComedySeriesInc/playlists Hang on, Minder was rebooted with Shane Ritchie in the 00s? Don't remember it! Nullzwei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 In a few of the episodes of the rebooted Columbo TV series from 1989 there is a red Hyundai Excel 3 door (Pony) that appears in the background a few times. (the rebooted series isn't as good as the original 1970s series aside from the odd one or two). HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Just watched ep2 of Stonehouse not bad but one glareing mistake I'd noticed in the trailer & was in tonight's episode a pair of nice MK3 cortinas except that Australian vehicles are rhd! & These where LHD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 13 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said: Hang on, Minder was rebooted with Shane Ritchie in the 90s? Don't remember it! That version (series 11) was crap and never had another series. Series 8-10 with Gary Webster was OK but only the Dennis Waterman series are the “real” Minder. Faker and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Nah…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 12/29/2022 at 6:44 PM, TheIsleofShite said: TR7 in the Detectorists, for anyone who hasn’t watched this I’d highly recommend, it’s very good television The TR7 is owned by Mackenzie Crook, co star and writers of the series. Joey spud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Charm Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Channel 4's Somewhere Boy, broadcast late last year, had all sorts of old rubbish in it, despite a contemporary setting: There's also a mark one Laguna and various other old nineties cars. For old house hunters, too, there are all sorts of original features still present in the family's sixties semi. Perhaps the director was going for a sort of timeless feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 For some good shite spotting try Talking Pictures TV. They show loads of those Look at Life reels and other old documentaries. Not watched Stonehouse yet, but Mk3 'tinas in Aus is probably wrong anyway. There were plenty of locally built Fords by then. hennabm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 45 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said: Mk3 'tinas in Aus is probably wrong anyway. There were plenty of locally built Fords by then. The TC Cortina (as the Mk3 was known in Australia) wasn't a bad seller, though weren't as popular as the bigger Falcon. All versions of the Cortina were built at the Broadmeadows plant outside Melbourne, alongside the Escort - in addition to the UK 1.6 and 2.0 litre four-pots, 3.3 and 4.1 litre straight six engine options, sourced from the Falcon, were also available in the TC. The bigger engined versions weren't reknowned for handling particularly well... saw a few when I was out there, including these at the legendary Flynn's Yard outside Cooma in NSW. TD (Mk4) Cortinas had larger, US Federal-style bumpers and side markers for some reason. garethj, LT84, Shite Ron and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 17 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said: Just watched ep2 of Stonehouse not bad but one glareing mistake I'd noticed in the trailer & was in tonight's episode a pair of nice MK3 cortinas except that Australian vehicles are rhd! The antipodes drive on the same side as us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: The antipodes drive on the same side as us? Them and the Japanese - Sweden bailed years ago...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: The antipodes drive on the same side as us? I assumed he was saying that the cars in the programme were LHD, but as they were supposed to be in Australia should be RHD. It's ambiguous and I haven't seen Stonehouse so don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: The antipodes drive on the same side as us? No, but the Antipodeans do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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