RE: SOTW: MG 1100
Discussion
radlet6 said:
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I have heard stories that BL used to use the press cars for filming. Sometimes the production co. wouldn't even get the same model let alone colour.
You are right Ford did get it right. The Sweeney turned a luxury saloon into a very cool motor; chasing down, and beating, the bad guys in their Mk II Jags.
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Ford also insisted that their cars were never crashed or driven by the crooks. Only the bad boys in the Jags and other stuff used, never Fords.I have heard stories that BL used to use the press cars for filming. Sometimes the production co. wouldn't even get the same model let alone colour.
You are right Ford did get it right. The Sweeney turned a luxury saloon into a very cool motor; chasing down, and beating, the bad guys in their Mk II Jags.
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Very shrewed cookies to stitch up the contracts like that :~ Good Guys use Fords, bad Guys use Jags and other stuff and always end up worse off as a result.
Very subtle conditioning the minds of those following this high profile and very popular TV series still repeatedly being ... er, repeated currently on some of the Freeview TV channels.
Just one of the huge number of ways the former and now extinct; BMC, BL, ARG and Rover group excelled at getting things ...... wrong. Really missed out there.
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MGJohn said:
The last time this now fragmented nation had the all the folks pulling in the same direction.
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Now then this quote reminds me of an Austin/Morris 1100 or 1300 that we used to see at custom shows back in the 80s. it was 2 front ends welded together back to back it was bright red , anyone else remember seeing it ?.
It could do the whole drive sideways bit as it had 2 engines , steering wheels and 4 steerable wheels, they used to try and pull it apart by doing burnouts against each other .
The ADO 16 was a great car in an age when driving was a pleasure. The Vanden Plas 1300 has leather seats with a really sprung seat squab and the joined hydropneumatic, as was originally intended for all Mini or 1100 cars and rides pleasantly if soft by modern standards. the 'A' series automatic gearbox is also great technology if the oil is kept clean ( the torque converter shares the engine oil). Imagine what the safety Nazis would make of the picnic trays!
rogerhudson said:
The ADO 16 was a great car in an age when driving was a pleasure. The Vanden Plas 1300 has leather seats with a really sprung seat squab and the joined hydropneumatic, as was originally intended for all Mini or 1100 cars and rides pleasantly if soft by modern standards. the 'A' series automatic gearbox is also great technology if the oil is kept clean ( the torque converter shares the engine oil). Imagine what the safety Nazis would make of the picnic trays!
Fully agree all the above.I had a Wolseley 1300 auto and it was great to use it 'manually' - the changes were so smooth - all it needed was a pair of paddles to shift with!
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