Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino, anyone?

[CreepingJesus]

Spotted this tonight.

Reckon a Perkins Prima would go beautifully in there. Perfick for a noisy, smokin' entrance. And it could be run on veg oil for extra-extra shite points.

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1973-Ford-Torino- ... 2eb2fb30b0

 

at 10 large i dont think many will be rushing to buy

[CreepingJesus]

True. I suppose it depends on what the percieved value of tootling into a car show with such a plaything is. Tho' the BBC article mentions it needs an engine, yet on the Bay, it has an engine, but is frankly a shed. And not even the right model year either.

I'd think £10k for an actual film car, plus engine and some fetling, would be worthwhile. You could have some fun, and punt it on for no loss. £10k for a shed with Huggy Bear's pawprint on...well no!

Ultimately, you could probly get one of Ford's genuine '73 special editions for that.

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actually just compared the two photos, they are different cars

 

BBC car has slots and chrome bumpers, the ebay has red bumpers and different wheels

 

but its the only torino for sale on ebay

 

curiouser and curiouser

[darkfour]

Bring a dustpan with you...

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1976-ford-torino-starsky-hutch-Gran-Torino-project-car-/260737813360?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3cb52f4b70

[Spottedlaurel]

Much better replica for these times of ever-increasing fuel costs:

 

1977 Datsun 100A FII 2dr (F10) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[garethj]

The one listed on ebay has been on for ages, from that dodgy American garage in da smoke IIRC?

 

The place in Keswick is fantastic, they’ve got loads of stuff but it’s badly arranged, poorly lit, you can’t take photos and the information is scant and often incorrect. But I’d roll in most of their exhibits, Lady Penelope’s Rolls Royce replica built on a bus chassis is full of win, Parker

[HillmanImp]

Not been to the Cars the Stars museum before, but my mates went several years ago to settle the argument once and for all about the colour of the A-Team van. I had been arguing for ages (we used to have whiskey, weed and A-team evenings) that it was gray on top black on the bottom with a red stripe. Several friends dissagreed because they were twats.

 

Two friends saw the van and sent everyone postcards of it confirming that it was in grey on top and that it did not 'just look grey because its sunny in the A-Team'.

 

Anyhow, back to the thread. From reading it again I think they are being put up for sale but are not yet.

[Father Ted]

[Father Ted]

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[Father Ted]

or even

[messerschmitt owner]

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twat

[Formula Autos]

The Autoshite alternative?

[eddyramrod]

OR

 

Fuck no! That's a crime against nature, that is. Bluebird looks quite good though...

[Six-cylinder]

 

Of course there is a story....

[eddyramrod]

I've been to the Keswick museum, they do have some great stuff there. Highlight for me has to be a Barris Batmobile, yes, one of the cars Adam West drove.

 

Looking at the links, the Torino on ebay is a) wrong, which the seller admits, and clearly not a Keswick car. It was probably better when it was brown, and I hate brown cars...

[HillmanImp]

It was only grey on top in the first season.

Your twattish mates were half right.

 

I beg to differ. Here is a scene from 'The Big Squeeze' from series 4.

 

 

I can assure you that is not the light shining on it....

[Bren]

£10 K for what is basically a slow, heavy, asthmatic, underpowered 70's saloon.

 

Even Paul Michael Glaser hated the feckin thing - he would bump it at every opportunity.

[HillmanImp]

If they were all grey then they certainly got darker in later episodes.

 

Yeah, you might be right there, it does look darker. Maybe it just looks a lighter grey because its sunny in the A Team

[HillmanImp]

You can't think all of those vans have the same paint job?

 

No, i was taking the piss as thats what my mates used to say.

 

Two friends saw the van and sent everyone postcards of it confirming that it was in grey on top and that it did not 'just look grey because its sunny in the A-Team'.

[Cavcraft]

Hey, I remember the late seventies quite well and hanging off the railings at school laughing at Avengers/minis/Cortinas/Marinas etc with Starsky & Hutch stripes.

 

Slight aside sorry but still recall vividly some pair of big hairy thug looking blokes rolling up to the lights in a (very) badly customised Cambridge. My mate and I pointed, laughed and generally took the rip out of them. They didn't take this too wll and jumped out with the engine running, climbed the fence and pegged us all over the place.

We got a fair distance between us and when they slowed up we were yelling 'come on then fatties' and the chase resumed again. They only gave up when the teachers called to coppers after we'd done about four laps of the grounds.

[CreepingJesus]

Gawd, I'd love an A-Team van. A proper GMC, mind. Is that so wrong, considering how much A-Team I watched, back in the day?

Universal had a reputation for hammering film cars into the ground, so is it just possible that the vans' slight colour shifts had something to do with them being given a quick blow-over after some stunt damage?

Besides, a GMC G-series shouldn't have much trouble pulling a car trailer with a stricken Gran Torino onboard, should it? A double whammy of TV-shite!

[eddyramrod]

I believe the consistency issue with the A-Team van(s) is simply the result of having several vehicles. They just failed to paint them all the same. Some were grey-over-black, some were all-black. The studios must think we don't notice...

There were 5 (or 6, depending which story you read) Adam West Batmobiles and at least 300 General Lees. TV is noticeably harder on cars than movies, as Bullitt had 2 of each chase car, the original Gone In 60 Seconds was completed with just one 1973 Mustang (so the story goes, anyway) and American Graffiti, which featured several cars, had only one of each. In fact you can spot some of them recurring, such as the white 1960 Chevy.

[garethj]

There were 5 (or 6, depending which story you read) Adam West Batmobiles and at least 300 General Lees. TV is noticeably harder on cars than movies, as Bullitt had 2 of each chase car, the original Gone In 60 Seconds was completed with just one 1973 Mustang (so the story goes, anyway) and American Graffiti, which featured several cars, had only one of each. In fact you can spot some of them recurring, such as the white 1960 Chevy.

It's to do with not losing any time in production, back in the '60s it didn't matter so much but nowadays it's probably a million quid a day to keep the crew waiting while you fix the head gasket on Bodie's Capri.

 

In 1968 The Love Bug used 8 Herbies, when Lindsay Lohan did her version a few years ago there were 35, that's not counting all the stuff they did with CGI too.

 

The sheer number of General Lees destroyed is down to simple physics, and the fact that there were 2 jumps per programme In later series of The Fall Guy the production team built a special truck to do the jumps - it was very light, so it could be launched from an air ramp and very strong so it could keep driving after most jumps, quite cool to watch compared to the continuous edits in Dukes of Hazzard - it's jumped at least 40 feet in the air and coming down nose first.... oh it's landed as if jumped off a high kerb

[CreepingJesus]

Somewhere in my vast collection of shite, is an old Rod + Custom with a roundup of some of the iconic rods of Hollywood, and where they got to. The sad tale of neglect, of the 'piss yella' Deuce and The Pharaohs Merc sled illustrates how hacked about film cars can be. The Deuce, apparently, was wheeled out one last time for the engine bay shots in 'The Califonia Kid' ('cos that car had a Pinto engine in it, or somesuch). It and the Merc, ended up being bought and restored by the same guy...lucky sod!

I did love watching The Dukes Of Hazzard to see how the General Lee virtually folded in half on landing, to be perfectly fine the next instant.