Simon Dee E -Type
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I'm not all that knowledgeable about Simon Dee or his show, but i heard about an E-Type that featured on the show. On the Jaguar Drivers Club site from the Lancashire region it says it was owned by a Norman aoldfield, whom recently passed away.
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/tributes-to-preston-jew...
Strange that nothing comes up on xkedata considering it's Dee connection.
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/tributes-to-preston-jew...
Strange that nothing comes up on xkedata considering it's Dee connection.
Jukebag said:
I'm not all that knowledgeable about Simon Dee or his show, but i heard about an E-Type that featured on the show. On the Jaguar Drivers Club site from the Lancashire region it says it was owned by a Norman aoldfield, whom recently passed away.
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/tributes-to-preston-jew...
Strange that nothing comes up on xkedata considering it's Dee connection.
I'm not that knowledgeable either but this is what xkedata comes up with..........https://www.lep.co.uk/news/tributes-to-preston-jew...
Strange that nothing comes up on xkedata considering it's Dee connection.
http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=1E1286
Simon Dee's E type was a 1964 version and had his private plate SD 130 - it now has the registration DHJ 467B and has been repainted red
Someone's got the wrong story then
Hmmm, that's strange. I think the person who said it was the Simon Dee car mustve been referring to the white one seen at the end credits driving around what looks like a,multi-story car park, and the link from xkedata is obviously a FHC. Were there two E-Types used, or was one Dee's personal car and the one they were referring to as being a Jaguar Driver club members the car the one seen in the programme?.
From what it says on the xkedata, it says it's the Simon Dee car as seen in the outro of the show, but was once an open-two-seater. I've never heard of an e-type roadster that was converted into a hardtop coupe; I wouldn't have thought it was possible. And why would anyone want to do such a thing?.
From reading the paragraph from the Drivers Club website, the way it's worded gives the impression that that persons e-type was THE e-type used in the TV series, but it maybe just be referring to any E-Type by saying "which used to be driven by Simon Dee in the show "Dee Time". However, I noticed below in the xkedata link it says: "At A JDC event at Harewood House near Harrogate in the late 80s/early 90s I met the owner of a cream/black 4.2 roadster. While chatting, he told me that this had been the Simon Dee car. Maybe there were two (or more) cars on the show but it seems there needs to be research on this."
Maybe there was another car, or maybe someone's telling porkies or been told the e type they own is the Simon Dee car.
From what it says on the xkedata, it says it's the Simon Dee car as seen in the outro of the show, but was once an open-two-seater. I've never heard of an e-type roadster that was converted into a hardtop coupe; I wouldn't have thought it was possible. And why would anyone want to do such a thing?.
From reading the paragraph from the Drivers Club website, the way it's worded gives the impression that that persons e-type was THE e-type used in the TV series, but it maybe just be referring to any E-Type by saying "which used to be driven by Simon Dee in the show "Dee Time". However, I noticed below in the xkedata link it says: "At A JDC event at Harewood House near Harrogate in the late 80s/early 90s I met the owner of a cream/black 4.2 roadster. While chatting, he told me that this had been the Simon Dee car. Maybe there were two (or more) cars on the show but it seems there needs to be research on this."
Maybe there was another car, or maybe someone's telling porkies or been told the e type they own is the Simon Dee car.
Edited by Jukebag on Tuesday 2nd April 21:53
I thought it was in the opening titles. She jumps in without opening the door and is half in and half out sitting on one leg, he roars off, she can't reach the top of the windscreen to hang on, she starts to go over backwards, the scene cuts, she breaks her leg but the viewer doesn't see that bit. That was the story at the time anyway.
No, you're right, it was the closing credits.
18 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIEpf88N5w
I forgot to mention the mini skirt.
18 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIEpf88N5w
I forgot to mention the mini skirt.
Wouldn't necessarily be his own car on the credits; it probably wouldn't be insured for film work especially if stunt work was involved. Also he might not be too keen on fans recognising his car in the street and scratching their initials on it as happened to the Beatles.
IIRC he was a bit of a 'comet'. Arrived in a cloud of hype and faded to obscurity.
IIRC he was a bit of a 'comet'. Arrived in a cloud of hype and faded to obscurity.
lowdrag said:
Memory fades, but I remember that after he was binned by both the Beeb and ITV he became a bus driver. And, correct me please, I think he ended up with a serious drink problem.
Sadly, one of us will have to read up about him. My memory is that he confused ambition with greed and when his ITV talk show didn't get ratings he was run off and was unwanted everywhere and went into a decline but was mopped up by a wealthy woman who kept him as a sort of pet.Which for a lot is would have been a perfectly reasonable ambition on its own.
The white E Type was not his E !
It belonged to the owner of a " few Northern night clubs " and was lent by him to the show.
The stunning / smoking hottt chick, was Lorna " Legs" Mcdonagh, a model.
Simon never owned ( as far as my research showed ) an E Type.
He did briefly own Robert Shaws DB5 however.
He ended up in clink for bankruptcy and the inmates used to yell out " Itttttts Simon Dee" at him.
He sadly died in almost obscurity / poverty in Winchester in August 2009 from memory.
It belonged to the owner of a " few Northern night clubs " and was lent by him to the show.
The stunning / smoking hottt chick, was Lorna " Legs" Mcdonagh, a model.
Simon never owned ( as far as my research showed ) an E Type.
He did briefly own Robert Shaws DB5 however.
He ended up in clink for bankruptcy and the inmates used to yell out " Itttttts Simon Dee" at him.
He sadly died in almost obscurity / poverty in Winchester in August 2009 from memory.
Edited by neutral 3 on Wednesday 3rd April 08:46
I didn't know Robert Shaw (I presume you mean the actor) owned a DB5; I wonder where that car is now. So we pretty much know that Dee didn't own an E-Type, but the question is, was there more than one E used for the show? because (as I've previously mentioned).
Here's the link from the JDC Lancashire region newsletter that mentions the Dee E-Type:
https://www.jaguar-drivers-club-lancashire.co.uk/n...
It could be that the JDC member owned more than one E-Type during his life, one of which was the aforementioned E-Type, which at the time was still a cream roadster before being converted to a FHC, but then again, considering that the owner owned a white E-Type roadster before his passing, I find it rather odd he would've owned another identical coloured car. And if the converted red FHC is definitely the Dee show car, then the white OTS featured in the Lancashire Evening Post a few years ago driven by the owner can't be the same car.
Here's the link from the JDC Lancashire region newsletter that mentions the Dee E-Type:
https://www.jaguar-drivers-club-lancashire.co.uk/n...
It could be that the JDC member owned more than one E-Type during his life, one of which was the aforementioned E-Type, which at the time was still a cream roadster before being converted to a FHC, but then again, considering that the owner owned a white E-Type roadster before his passing, I find it rather odd he would've owned another identical coloured car. And if the converted red FHC is definitely the Dee show car, then the white OTS featured in the Lancashire Evening Post a few years ago driven by the owner can't be the same car.
Edited by Jukebag on Friday 5th April 10:33
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