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Post by Three Litre on Apr 6, 2021 9:33:24 GMT
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Post by The Saint on Apr 6, 2021 10:27:27 GMT
I don’t think that car ever featured in The Sweeney.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Apr 6, 2021 10:35:23 GMT
Blimey, that's an old article, November 2011!
Unfortunately I can't get past the subscription banner but what I can see of the picture that is not a Sweeney car that I recognise. Mind you such claims for mk1 Granadas and Consuls were rife at that time.
It would be interesting to see what the article actually claims and what real provenance there is to back up the claim but it looks very questionable to me.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 6, 2021 12:06:43 GMT
I seem to remember this article being discussed on an older forum. The claims were prettty much disproved I think.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 6, 2021 12:37:37 GMT
Here's the relevant bit of the article:-
The principal cars in the show – the Consul 3000 GT in the first three series and the Mk2 Granada 2.8iS for the final season – came care of Ford, whose sense for product placement was second to none in the British motor industry. Dagenham also provided back-up cars such as a handsome, top-of-the-line 1977 Ghia finished in Copper Bronze, which featured in Sweeney 2 and starred in the Messenger of the Gods episode.
The cars all bore false number plates for filming and so, when the Ford collector Mark Marsdon bought a Mk1 Ghia in August 2009, he was initially unaware of its past as an all-purpose Sweeney back-up vehicle until a chance meeting with Pete Maskell, a Granada expert.
I did wonder if the implication was that the car in the picture was that it had been re-registered.
Who knows, may be all a load of nonsense.
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Post by The Saint on Apr 6, 2021 12:53:26 GMT
.....Who knows, may be all a load of nonsense. In the years before NHK’s restoration was completed there were several stories of back-up/stunt cars, however I think the consensus was that these stories are nonsense. The Saint
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 6, 2021 14:06:13 GMT
That is NOT the car that was in Sweeney 2 Gene.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 6, 2021 15:10:39 GMT
I'll get me coat ....................
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Apr 6, 2021 17:50:38 GMT
Yes this came up before, about this S reg car; I believe it was owned by a former writer/editor of Practical Classics in the 90's who owned it before it was fully restored to the condition it is now.
It may have an Essex registration number as per the Real deal Sweeney cars but, that doesn't mean it was a Ford fleet car necessarily.
Also none of the Sweeney Consul/Granadas had false registration numbers, the number plates in the episodes were all the real deal.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 6, 2021 20:52:18 GMT
Most likely started as a bit of fun by the owner ? But as known the Sweeney cars were all the real deal Reg'd cars as seen on screen. The Professionals on the other hand had a few fantasy Reg's.
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