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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:06 pm Post subject: Cars in the Movies |
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Talking Pictures TV shows lots of good films with car sequences.
Today they have been showing "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" that features the Napier Railton including record breaking runs and on the road use.
And recently they showed "The Sleeping Tiger" that featured some nice shots including a fast car chase in a 1937 SS Jaguar
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22453 Location: UK
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V8 Nutter
Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 588
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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In most of the old British films especially the early fifties ones, the bad guys all seem to drive American cars. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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I thought it was always Jaguars!
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Peter,
Quote: | I thought it was always Jaguars |
They did if they wanted to get away.
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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47Jag wrote: | Peter,
Quote: | I thought it was always Jaguars |
They did if they wanted to get away.
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Penguin45
Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 382 Location: Padiham
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:43 am Post subject: |
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The Ealing black and whites always included the mirror shot as the baddies drove away of the Wolseley badge light and Winkworth bell clanging away.
P45. _________________ '67 Wolseley MkI 18/85, '70 Austin MkII 1800 The Landcrab Forum. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:55 am Post subject: |
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I have become addicted to the two sky oldie film channels and am compulsively taking notes of the registration numbers and checking the DVLA site to see if they still exist. The other day I was watching Brannigan and an E-type ends up upside-down on the foreshore, flat as a pancake. it still existed on the DVLA! |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:40 am Post subject: |
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That's similar to the Napier Railton film. Nigel Patrick the racing driver is persuaded to give up his most treasured possession for the love of Pandora and he pushes it over a cliff into the sea but later in the film he retrieves it and takes part in a world record run.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3825 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Not a film but I watched a Haircut 100 music video the other evening on Youtube, it had the band frequently portrayed in a white Triumph Vitesse. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2475 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:24 am Post subject: |
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I'm sure you've all seen this web site - imcdb.org - if you're trying to find out what films your own type of vehicle might have appeared in. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4109 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | Not a film but I watched a Haircut 100 music video the other evening on Youtube, it had the band frequently portrayed in a white Triumph Vitesse. |
And a couple of years later Tears for Fears used an Austin Healey 3000 "Everybody wants to rule the world". |
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V8 Nutter
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:40 am Post subject: |
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In the fifties there were plenty of cheap American cars for the bad guys to crash in films. Only cads and ladies men drove the expensive Jaguars. By the late sixties cheap Jaguars were available to crash. By the seventies the Jaguars could never get away from the Sweeney's Ford Granadas |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7121 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:49 am Post subject: |
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V8 Nutter wrote: | Only cads and ladies men drove the expensive Jaguars. |
I say, steady on! What are you suggesting sir?
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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V8Nutter,
Quote: | By the seventies the Jaguars could never get away from the Sweeney's Ford Granadas |
Aye right! You can make anything look good on film. The Jags were being driven with the handbrake on to give the Grannies a chance.
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