Crocks on the Box

[Father Ted]

Right now, BBC4 - Dirk Gently, a brown Austin Princess

[pogweasel]

[pbottomley]

It sounded about right !!!

[Pete-M]

The dive when he braked made me grin like a wanking chimp.

 

The Dirk Gently books are ace.

[Richard]

It's years since I read them, did he only do two?

[Father Ted]

Two and a half, he got about halfway through "The Salmon of Doubt" when he pegged it.

[michiel]

Hope this makes it to the 'regular' BBC channels in the future, excellent books.

[mk2_craig]

Anyone see the silver Y-suffix Datsun Cherry on Eastenders being push-started a few weeks back? I meant to get a screen grab off iPlayer at the time but never got round to it...

[autofive]

just watching dirk on iplayer i notice a reg plate in his office, clagged to the new fridge;

 

ford escort

The vehicle details for VPF 384G are:

 

Date of Liability 01 10 1986

Date of First Registration 07 08 1968

Year of Manufacture Not Available

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1650CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour RED

 

1650cc ? a re-bored 711m perhaps?

[Father Ted]

I watched it again tonight and thought the reg was:

The vehicle details for VPF 384S are:

 

Date of Liability 01 07 1991

Date of First Registration 10 04 1978

Year of Manufacture 1978

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1275CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Export

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

[Shep Shepherd]

Just watched 'Dirk Gently' and thought it was great. I'm sure that a lot of the rust and body damage on the 'Austin Leyland Princess' was computer-generated, though, as in the flashback to 1994, the car looked a lot tidier

[Lord Sterling]

I watched it again tonight and thought the reg was: VPF 384S

 

Saw a bit of this today and the plate is definiately VPF 384G

[UltraWomble]

A blast from the ATV archives past and LYO 472K Citroen DS Famialle