A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[manorcom]

Dad bought a Double 6 when it was 2 years old. It was a pre injection carburetted car. Went like stink but you needed a flexible friend to fill her up because if you pushed it it made 8 mpg. Best was 12-14 mpg. He stored it in the early 80's depression, because he couldn't sell it. It rotted away very quickly.

[aeropilot]

Dapster said:

XJ6 all day long. Always driven by a better class of villain!

Only class of villian......

The Rover P6 wasn't a villians choice of car, back in the day, unlike Jags and Tranny's.

[RichB]

aeropilot said:

Dapster said:

XJ6 all day long. Always driven by a better class of villain!

Only class of villain...... The Rover P6 wasn't a villain's choice of car, back in the day, unlike Jags and Tranny's.

Rover P6? Bank Manager's car...

[williamp]

P5 was. And also Quen Mum, et al..

[P5BNij]

williamp said:

Speed 3 said:

I don't know why but I always find the letter J in a reg very odd.

Either a phobia of 1971 or the end scene of Get Carter...

Anyhow, Rover P6 just ouf of shot. If its a 3500S, which is the best car? xj6 or 3500?? Answers on a postcard to...

It's a Series 1 P6 so won't be an S, it could still be a 3500 though

I've had three P6s and a Series 2 XJ6 4.2 manual, the Jag was the best in my view, it always surprised me how quick it was and the ride was utterly sublime. The P6s rode really well too, but stone me they used to fall over in the corners!

[P5BNij]

Dapster said:

williamp said:

Either a phobia of 1971 or the end scene of Get Carter...

Anyhow, Rover P6 just ouf of shot. If its a 3500S, which is the best car? xj6 or 3500?? Answers on a postcard to...

XJ6 all day long. Always driven by a better class of villain!

First appearance of an XJ6 in a gangster film, driven by Joss Ackland's character in (appropriately!) 'Villain', shot in 1970...

[RichB]

Did gangsters go to the laundaromat?

[LarJammer]

RichB said:

Did gangsters go to the laundaromat?

Money laundering?!

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

First appearance of an XJ6 in a gangster film, driven by Joss Ackland's character in (appropriately!) 'Villain', shot in 1970...

The blag on the factory scene in Villain was shot a few hundred yards from the end of the road I've just moved into, and they getaway in the damaged S-Type, was filmed past the end of my road.....where my house is now is just out of shot to the left of this still, behind that barn, which is now a pub.........doesn't look like this 50 years later!!

[droopsnoot]

P5BNij said:

First appearance of an XJ6 in a gangster film, driven by Joss Ackland's character in (appropriately!) 'Villain', shot in 1970...

I have a vague recollection that this was the film I was watching when it was interrupted to announce that "Desert Shield" had turned into "Desert Storm", the Gulf War. Is it the one where someone is held out of an office window a few floors up to persuade them to do something?

[P5BNij]

droopsnoot said:

P5BNij said:

First appearance of an XJ6 in a gangster film, driven by Joss Ackland's character in (appropriately!) 'Villain', shot in 1970...

I have a vague recollection that this was the film I was watching when it was interrupted to announce that "Desert Shield" had turned into "Desert Storm", the Gulf War. Is it the one where someone is held out of an office window a few floors up to persuade them to do something?

Yes that's right on both counts - the scene where the croupier is hung out of the window in 'Villain' is based on a real event which happened to the bloke who grassed up the Stones in '67, which is how the infamous Redlands bust came about at Keith's country pile, actor / real life nutter / villain John Bindon was one of the two who strung up the grass in real life...

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 25th December 19:22

[P5BNij]

aeropilot said:

P5BNij said:

First appearance of an XJ6 in a gangster film, driven by Joss Ackland's character in (appropriately!) 'Villain', shot in 1970...

The blag on the factory scene in Villain was shot a few hundred yards from the end of the road I've just moved into, and they getaway in the damaged S-Type, was filmed past the end of my road.....where my house is now is just out of shot to the left of this still, behind that barn, which is now a pub.........doesn't look like this 50 years later!!

Back in 2011 me and some mates took our classic cars down to Bracknell to have a look at the location of the factory blag and the scene you describe with the S-Type....



The area to the left of the Jag is all built on now...

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

The area to the left of the Jag is all built on now...

Yes, about where that telephone box is, is now the entrance to a car park for the office building now there, and opposite where there is that entrance seen in that photo, has now been filled in and there is no longer an entrance there!

And the barn shown in the photo of the Jag I posted, is now the Peacock Farm Pub, where the local PH TVR and other classics have their monthly meet on the the 3rd Tues of the month, or did up until last year.
Hopefully still do, as I can walk there in less than 5 mins

Edited by aeropilot on Wednesday 25th December 19:57

[P5BNij]

Funny old / small world isn't it! The Bracknell location was chosen because it was out of town (London) and fairly new and modern looking for the time. When we drove down there in 2011 we recognised it straight away despite the more recent stuff that had been built since 1970. When we headed back to town we stopped off in Hounslow and had some nosh in a pub which was actually the bank used in the film.

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

Funny old / small world isn't it! The Bracknell location was chosen because it was out of town (London) and fairly new and modern looking for the time. When we drove down there in 2011 we recognised it straight away despite the more recent stuff that had been built since 1970. When we headed back to town we stopped off in Hounslow and had some nosh in a pub which was actually the bank used in the film.

And back in 2015, that pub was 100 yards along the road from the nursing home my late mother was in for 9 months before passing away. I also remember having a few drinks in it back in the mid 80's, after work, when I was working on site building the new Treaty Shopping Center in Hounslow High St.

[silverfoxcc]

There is a bit more of Bracknell in 'The Offence'

And Harry Potters uncles house is near Tescos at Martins Heron

[Loose_Cannon]

Speed 3 said:

I don't know why but I always find the letter J in a reg very odd.

I recall there was some kind of change to the date that the letters came out in 1971 which made the number of J registered cars comaparatively rare.

[williamp]

...and lock stock



Along with a P6, of course

I know we are off topic but that film is 20+ years old now...

[aeropilot]

Loose_Cannon said:

Speed 3 said:

I don't know why but I always find the letter J in a reg very odd.

I recall there was some kind of change to the date that the letters came out in 1971 which made the number of J registered cars comaparatively rare.

No.
You're thinking of 'E' reg, which was only 6 months duration, from 01.01.67 to 31.07.67, from when they changed to 12 months starting on the 1st Aug every year.

[P5BNij]

Loose_Cannon said:

Speed 3 said:

I don't know why but I always find the letter J in a reg very odd.

I recall there was some kind of change to the date that the letters came out in 1971 which made the number of J registered cars comaparatively rare.

You're thinking of 1967 which was the year when the August changeover first came in, it would be E reg'd cars being the rarer ones as they only applied between Jan 1st to July 31st '67

Edit : beaten to it…!

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 25th December 20:54