The Sweeney - 70's car catalogue!

overdriver

I was watching The Sweeney yesterday and in one episode alone, without studying the background in scenes too hard, I saw the following:

Cast of Characters:

Jaguar XJ in red
Rover P6
Granada in silver with vinyl roof
Rolls Royce
Capri MKIII in black ( JPS colours?)
Fiat 850 white
Austin maxi
Daf 33 yellow
Bedford icecream van
Allegro ( blue)
Marina ( burgundy)
Triumph 1300
Sunbeam Alpine
Cortina MKII grey
Morris Oxford
Spitfire MKIV blue hard top
Capri MKIII yellow
BMC 1100/1300
Silver Granada no vinyl
MKI Transit - this was immaculate - like brand new.
Escort MKII squad car
Peugeot 504
Cortina MKIII white with natty red double go faster stripes
Transit Black Mariah

Thats without teh credits, which has some interesting oldies in there too.

MercMad

Cool !

What channel is it on anyway? I never manage to find it !

overdriver

ITV 4 I think.

If you have a sky box you can tune it in manually free, AFAIK.

Or its on Freesat.

mike65

The Professionals (ITV4) is also good for car spotting

MercMad

Thanks for that, I have ITV4 on the "Other Channels" menu, which is why I never spotted it !

Big Nasty

www.thesweeney.info/motors/motors.html

Henry Ford III

I loved that Consul GT

overdriver

MCMLXXV wrote: »

www.thesweeney.info/motors/motors.html

They're the cast cars.

The real fun is spotting the background stuff.

The Alpine for instance was in car park where regan was arguing with a criminal. And the Spitfire was belonging to the duaghter of a famous villain.

Class stuff.

gfwd

Ah, The Sweeney, my all time favourite!

You'll be happy to see that the Consul GT has survived and is currently being restored by the current owner. A big job too...

http://www.thetvlounge.co.uk/sweeney/viewtopic.php?t=554

overdriver

Major job.

Fair play. it IS an iconic car though.

Bodie's Capri went for 25k or some silly figure like that recently.


The Sweeney was on again last night but the missus insisted on turning over to Corrie halfway through.

It'll be repeated today I'm sure.

overdriver

The Sweeney is on tonight 9 pm ITV 4 lads and lassies...

Arthur Daley

A red Fiat 850 turns up in several episodes. Must have been a very popular car in West London in the mid 70s...mmmm.

Watch more episodes and you may spot gear such as an Aston Martin DB6 Volante, Shelby Mustang, and a Ferrari 208/308 GT4 2+2.

Have fun spotting, you should be able to pick up the box set for about 48 sovs, and they'd nicely tidied up the film, with some good extras.
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/theuktelevisi-21/detail/B000V6AEPO/026-5609876-0443602

Alright Squeeler.....:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9K_EkU9KZE

quattro777

I'm halfway through the Minder boxset which is 80's tastic

kyote00

This site will kill a few hours ....

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_71059-The-Sweeney.html

http://www.imcdb.org/

overdriver

I've just ordered that Arfur...fank you.

overdriver

The red 850 was there agai last night. Obviously a crew car.

Its funny how Life On Mars is a pastiche of The Sweeney really. But I have noticed that The Sweeney's streets are constantly full of parked and moving cars, while LOM has very few really. Obviously they didn't want to hire dozens and dozens of classic cars for filming.

Even the London - Manchester thing wouldn't really account for it.

There's a burgundy MKIII 'Tina that turns up a few times in LOM, for instance, once being driven by villains into a football game and another time parked foreground at a seige situation.

overdriver

kyote00 wrote: »

This site will kill a few hours ....

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_71059-The-Sweeney.html

http://www.imcdb.org/

Class.