After car spotting UK 60's cars in "George Gently", the series "Grantchester" is also a car spotters delight.
Also interesting to see where the cars were originally registered as one older one (episode 3) I am watching now, has a mix of Irish, English and Scottish cars of the late 1950s.
Midsomer Murders has often had some interesting stuff too over the years, from an ex F1 Cooper to Honor Blackman driving a Jag XK 120.
richardmayes,
Oct 9, 8:28pm
My favourite crime movie is The Bank Job, partly because it has two undercover cops staking out the bank in a Mk2 2.5 PI Triumph, and the cop almost lights up the tyres at one stage launching into pursuit. Beautiful!
mike1345,
Oct 10, 6:13am
I just watch my Professionals, Sweeney and Minder DVD's.
trogedon,
Oct 10, 6:26am
Its a good movie generally. The left out scenes are worth seeing - having sex in the bank vault etc. Nice Transit van.
dublo,
Oct 10, 7:22am
And that's probably almost as good as Arkwright and Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the back of a Mini van in an episode of Open All Hours.
dublo,
Oct 10, 7:30am
Grantchester is supposed to be set in about 1953 and while there are the usual police Wolseleys about and Geordie the detective drives a 1952 Hillman Minx Mk 5, there are some clangers: a late 1950s Humber Hawk or Super Snipe in the distance in one scene springs to mind. There were a few others but hard to see some of them through all the cigarette smoke filling the screen! Not as bad, though, as railway station scenes set in steam days: in so many cases there are the emotional farewells as the hero or heroine boards the Flying Scotsman or another famous named train, only to show the locomotive hauling it to be a diminutive dockside shunter.
socram,
Oct 10, 8:06am
Yup. I noticed the Humber too! In the "Inspector George Gently" stuff, you tend to see the same cars in different locations a bit too often.
Watching older stuff on DVD's is fine, but these are new series trying to re-create 1953 (Grantchester) and 1964 & 1969 (Gently).
For those who are not aware of the UK plate system, The post 1963 UK plates had a suffix. "A" 1963. "B" 1964 etc, then in 1968, they swapped to an August 1st plate suffix change to try and keep car sales more even throughout the year.
The last two Alpha characters denoted the area the car was first registered, so for example, Nottingham had AU, RR, NN, TO, TV etc. So Nick Mason's Ferrari 250 GTO has a plate that was first issued in Nottingham!
Generally, plates with the last two characters beginning with "S" were Scottish and with "Z" were Irish. Trivial I know, but adds a bit of anorak interest to these TV series for some of us old tragics.
socram,
Oct 10, 8:09am
Given the size of those two, a Transit might have been the wiser choice! Back of a Mini van brought back one glorious memory for me.
bwg11,
Mar 5, 3:25am
Currently watching the TV series "Outlander". Features a tourer, which at first glance I thought was a Singer, but a closer look reveals a Rover. Never seen one in NZ.
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