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Which Car Do You Take? on 16:04 - Mar 21 by loftboy
I’ll be 90 that year!
Delorean for me , pop back to the night Dave bulstrode was with his female companion and take him out for curry instead of letting him stay at home to play hide the sausage , no heart attack and the future may of have been very diff for us .
Monday to Friday I'd take A- Team . Can get an 8 by 4 sheet in the back no problem . Weekends I'd take Knightrider. " KITT, where are you buddy..? Last oders just rang and we need to get to Lord of the Grills Kebabs straight after"
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Which Car Do You Take? on 00:09 - Mar 22 with 1660 views
A mate of my brother( a racing driver called Chris White) had a Lotus Seven,always fancied one of those. My American cousin Jill was over one time,very prissy individual she was,very conscious of her coiffure. Chris took her out for a spin in the Lotus and she came back looking like she'd been dragged through several dozen hedges. Really hairy and exhilarating motoring.BUT it killed poor Chris in a crash up at Silverstone.
The car from Clockwork Orange. I sat in this at a recent Kubrick exhibition. It is tiny. Like an oversized Dinky Toy. It brought back memories of the 70s watching my Uncle play football on the Hackney Marshes. Occasionally (not always) if the game didn’t hold my interest I’d go walkabout. One cold Saturday afternoon I came across the Dinky Toy factory with no sign of any one around. There it was across the canal. I fantasised a door left open where I could nip in and stuff my pockets full of toy cars. I walked the length of the canal a fair distance but there was no way across to access it. In effect the canal was a moat protecting a magic castle of toy cars. I say a magic castle it was more a nondescript generic flat-roof light-industrial building of no remark other than having the Dinky Toy logo. Defeated I returned pitchside to see out the last ten minutes of the game.
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Which Car Do You Take? on 02:59 - Mar 23 with 1338 views
Which Car Do You Take? on 08:55 - Mar 21 by Rs_Holy
My choice would be Jimmy Bonds Lotus Esprit Submarine in the Spy Who Loved Me but from the cars shown it has to be the DeLorean Time Machine!
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That's a blast from my childhood, that car - I thought it was the coolest thing ever - still isn't far off it.
But yes, a question with so many layers. For pure car that Starsky and Hutch one was always cool as fcuk, but it has some brutal competition.
The main thing for me is the lifestyle - what am I signing up for here?
Michael Knight got shot in the face, and being a young loner on a crusade to protect the innocent sounds like more work than I'd be up for.
Almost too much choice with the Delorean and I was crap at history, but tempting.
For the A Team one I'd also want to know which character I get to be - BA gets to use the welding torch but you'd probably want to be Face Man in that situation.
With the Dukes of Hazard you'd have a nice laid back lifestyle and the rules about shagging your cousin vary by state, so that's definitely in the running.
A lot to think about.
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Which Car Do You Take? on 10:18 - Mar 23 with 1237 views
The Gerry Anderson ""Doppelganger" car...from the 1969 movie "Journey to the far side of the sun".Totally outrageous.I saw it in Bromley,Kent when they were doing a promo tour for the film.True to other Gerry Anderson works it suddenly exploded.
Guy I knew through my brother who was working in the rag trade,Bob Jankel,set up Panther cars.Had a showroom on Park Lane around 1977. They produced the luxury De Ville,looked like a Bugatti and based on a Jag XJ6 chassis. The Panther Six at the time was the fastest production car available with a monster 8.2litre Cadillac V8, twin turbochargers,3 speed auto box based on the Tyrell F1 and capable of over 200 mph.Only two made which are still in existence.
Which Car Do You Take? on 02:13 - Mar 23 by DannyPaddox
The car from Clockwork Orange. I sat in this at a recent Kubrick exhibition. It is tiny. Like an oversized Dinky Toy. It brought back memories of the 70s watching my Uncle play football on the Hackney Marshes. Occasionally (not always) if the game didn’t hold my interest I’d go walkabout. One cold Saturday afternoon I came across the Dinky Toy factory with no sign of any one around. There it was across the canal. I fantasised a door left open where I could nip in and stuff my pockets full of toy cars. I walked the length of the canal a fair distance but there was no way across to access it. In effect the canal was a moat protecting a magic castle of toy cars. I say a magic castle it was more a nondescript generic flat-roof light-industrial building of no remark other than having the Dinky Toy logo. Defeated I returned pitchside to see out the last ten minutes of the game.
After extensive research I’ve discovered that Dinky Toys (an offshoot of Meccano) were made in Liverpool. The beguiling hive of industry I had discovered up-river in the East was in fact the legendary Lesney Matchbox Toy Car Factory.
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Which Car Do You Take? on 23:47 - Mar 23 with 1016 views
Which Car Do You Take? on 22:32 - Mar 23 by DannyPaddox
After extensive research I’ve discovered that Dinky Toys (an offshoot of Meccano) were made in Liverpool. The beguiling hive of industry I had discovered up-river in the East was in fact the legendary Lesney Matchbox Toy Car Factory.
Love it Danny. I'm a big fan of what people like to call (was it Iain Sinclair who coined the phrase?) psychogeography. I guess it's not there any more, otherwise you could make a homage.
PS - I really liked Matchbox cars. Along with Dinky, they made my childhood imagination sing in the cities me and my brother made out of off-cuts our grandad brought us from the timber yard.
There was a car i loved that would work in this thread, this one's a Corgi though - another fave!
Arthur Daley in his Jag with his big fat Cigar attempting to flog all manner of dodgy motors !!!
And Terry McCann in his Capri with the fluffy dice and screen names on the front windscreen of Tel above the drivers seat and A N Other on the passenger side !!!
Think the Capri also had the fanfare hooter when pressed in 1980s road rage style !!!
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