"Cuff em, & Stuff 'em!!"

[Richard A Thackeray]

Spotted on the BBC website this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-40697159

 

[captain nemo1701]

"Someday the mountain might get them but the law never will"
That lyric probably needs rewriting

 

[Threevok]

How can they say this car played the starring role ? They wrecked at least 5 per episode.

To be honest, anyone who dresses their Dodge Charger up to look like this, should be locked up

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There are a few replicas around

This one is generally (.......................) in the Oil Can Café, at Hepworth (near Jackson Bridge)
http://thecardingshed.co.uk/
Only a baby though, with the '383'



Practical Classics magazine once did a mickey-take, with a big-block (1800TC) Marina Coupe......




On a similar vein, my barbers husband has this



Which had a similar tweeting a while ago

View: https://twitter.com/wypdogs/status/489499211659243520


http://www.egglestonlimousines.co.uk/a-team-van-hire


And, so I'm told, a T-PAC, after revellers waved plastic guns out of the windows

 

[Threevok]

I'll take it back - anyone who dresses a Morris Marina up like that and (manages to) jumps ramps, deserves my undying admiration

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

hee hee 50% of 50%

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

How can they say this car played the starring role ? They wrecked at least 5 per episode.
To be honest, anyone who dresses their Dodge Charger up to look like this, should be locked up

375 was the oft-quoted figure

When they made the original cast film, part of the script was to re-commison the General, who'd been left in a barn. or field
The crew found a TV car, in the Warner Brothers yards, & showed it 'as found' - filthy, faced, tatty, etc......
I have the film somewhere on a VHS tape, along with the secondary film 'Hazzard In Hollywood'
;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard:_Reunion!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard:_Hazzard_in_Hollywood!

 

[Chris S]

When I saw the title I thought this was going to be an S&M thread.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

When I saw the title I thought this was going to be an S&M thread.

Sorry to shatter your dreams............

It was one of Rosco P Coltranes phrases

 

[Leaway2]

Sorry to shatter your dreams............

It was one of Rosco Peeeeeeeeeeeeeee Coltranes phrases

FIFY

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

James Best was almost in 'Smokey & The Bandit', in Jerry Reeds role, but had signed up for 'Dukes', when Burt Reynolds asked him

When I saw the title I thought this was going to be an S&M thread.

Given that the 'P' was for Pervis...............................

Co-incidentally, I was watching an old episode of M*A*S*H the other evening, & Sorrell Booke/Boss Hogg was in it (as General Barker)

 

[Kestevan]

I'll take it back - anyone who dresses a Morris Marina up like that and (manages to) jumps ramps, deserves my undying admiration

Given the limitations of what BL laughingly called suspension on the marina, I suspect that jumping would have been possible, but actually landing it and driving away would have been more of a challenge.

I remember my mates Marina going round (most of) a corner while the front wheels carried on happily in a straight line.....

 

[Threevok]

Worked on so many Marinas in my time. Dad had an estate version too. POS that it was

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Postman friend of mine had a Marina and used to throw all the meter mail (circulars) in the back instead of delivering them. Unfortunately the window seals leaked and the thousands of leaflets absorbed the moisture, rotting through the floor and collapsing it spectacularly on a dual carriageway.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

How can they say this car played the starring role ? They wrecked at least 5 per episode.
To be honest, anyone who dresses their Dodge Charger up to look like this, should be locked up

Do you feel the same about '68 Mustang fastbacks?

Will these Chargers be okay?
And, lots of other very nice motors

Almost a 'Bullitt' http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/353/1969-dodge-charger-rt
http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/224/1969-dodge-charger-se
http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/186/1969-dodge-charger-rt
http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/162/1969-dodge-charger-rt
http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/115/1969-dodge-charger
Same body shell; http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/150/1969-dodge-coronet-rt

First year of the Charger, I think? http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/252/1966-dodge-charger-rt


This '55 would be fine by me
http://smokymountaintraders.com/vehicles/85/1955-chevrolet-150