"Life on Mars"
Discussion
Slightly odd BBC cop show (copper gets run down in 2005 and finds himself in 1973 (-ish, I forget)). Lots of classic cars. All in rather good condition!
Where did they get all those beautiful cars? And were the Police really still using Consuls at
the same time as Allegros?
And no Cortina 2000E *ever* made that noise!
I enjoyed it, though.
Where did they get all those beautiful cars? And were the Police really still using Consuls at
the same time as Allegros?
And no Cortina 2000E *ever* made that noise!
I enjoyed it, though.
zumbruk said:Now, I struggled with this, the badges on the front wings made me sure it was a 2000E, but it had a large red 'GXL' badge on the front grille. And as Bomber Denton pointed out on the thread in P&P, it had the later facelifted dashboard which came in a year after the period in which it was set.
and no Cortina 2000E *ever* made that noise!
I enjoyed this last night so much that when it'd finished, me and Mrs T switched over to Men & Motors and watched an episode of 'The Professionals' featuring Bodie's silver Capri 3.0S, Doyle's white MkII RS2000 and Cowley in a red-ish MkII Granada! Lots of stilted dialogue and bad dying on the bad guys behalf but some quality sliding 'n' screeching '70's Ford entertainment! 
zumbruk said:
Where did they get all those beautiful cars? And were the Police really still using Consuls at
the same time as Allegros?
And no Cortina 2000E *ever* made that noise!
Apart from the trailers, I've not seen the programme.
Must admit the Copper Bronze Met. 'tina has thrown me in the trailers, as it seems to be half GXL - half 2000E...?
As for Consul's.....depends on what Police force you are talking about......if it's supposed to be the Met.Police, then no. The Met never really used Ford's at all until the first Escort Mk2 'Panda' cars came into service in the late 70's.
1973 would hav been almost exclusivly Moggie Minor 'Panda' cars, with maybe just the first Allegro's coming into service. Area/Traffic cars were Rover 3500 P6's with Triumph 2500PI's in the central London districts.
Dog Van's would have been Morris Marina Van's, and Station Vans were Leyland Sherpa's.
M/C's were still good old Trumpet's......
Edited as I've just remember in the late sixties the Met. did have some 105E Anglia 'Panda' cars.
>> Edited by aeropilot on Monday 16th January 22:10
Pigeon said:
No morris minors though and the world was full of them in 1973.
Thats a good thing though
Heretic! Moggies are great!
How else can you learn opposite lock powerslides at walking pace?
(The first car me and Mrs. Z owned between us was a Moggie, and a few years ago we decided to buy a convertible for Sunday afternoon nostalgia trundling. So, we went to Charlie Ware's Moggie Centre and took one out. Oh, dear. The things that memory hides from you; it didn't go, it didn't stop, it didn't go round corners, it was horrid. We took it back and decided not to bother.)
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