aghhh the 70s and 80s.... a quick bit of armed robbery in London on a Friday morning then to heathrow with lots of time for the 4 pm to MArbella....... in the pub there by 9 pm... job done...
I remember driving those old transits. The steering wheel was the size of dustbin lid and parking into a small parking spot was like a work out in the gym
No matter if you drove a truck or van, it was always hard work and they were loud and stinking hot in the summer. And i even drove a few transits in the 80's but also some lorry's and trucks that didn't had steering power but a large bakelite wheel the size of luxemburg, and could only be used when the van/ lorry or truck was moving beçause at standing still you needed at least 2 men to turn the steeringwheel or hire arnold schwarzenegger or andré the giant!
They'd be out of pocket now driving like that. Speed cameras,bus lanes,congestion charge,box junctions,traffic light cameras..I think those motors are exempt from the ulez charge though.
@@mandagee1536 All vehicles with historic tax class are exempt from the ULEZ. This tax class applies if a vehicle was built more than 40 years ago, with the date moving forward on a 40-year rolling system. This 40-year rolling age limit is set by the DVLA. This tax class excludes vehicles that are used commercially.
That Ford was R reg. 1976. Everything else seemed to be pre 68 with bs k and white plates. The photographer cop was on a 65 mini with a pressed grill. I grew up in sarf London in the mid seventies and I was into bikes, i dont know why I didn’t notice the cars so much, wish I had done! I knew where to see a star fire, triumph 500 ,velocette LE s , commandos all while I was cycling around. Our next door neighbour had a Zephyr and max wall who lived over the road had a D reg 66 Mercedes Yes that max wall.
@@user-sw2lv3zp6o TR6P from honor oak motors. 650expolice trumpet . A good lot of Brit iron was still daily user, I remember catching up with an Ariel arrow on the south circular, a rare bird then. Puch two speed 50 then Honda 125 and 200 then the saint. I was 17 and still at school ffs
Sad fact but there were a lot of Ford PNOs in The Famous Five which was also filmed around the same time! Yes I used to love watching that when I was a kid!
This was a 3 part series, The actor that played Charlie slater in eastenders was the policeman and the actor Ken Campbell was the lawyer. Very good drama.
I am not an expert on cars but I have a rough idea of what they looked like throughout the decades. That car at 1:17 really shook me with its design as it is something I would expect to see in a movie set in the late 80s or 90s. I wonder what model this is and how common were models with a similar design during the mid 70s.
@@malcolmcowan9554Its a Mk2 2.4 or 3.4 Jaguar. Ive had a 340 then a Daimler 250. The front grille is different. Daimler grilles are fluted whereas Jaguar has unfluted grille.
I'm sure that green mk4 Cortina S turned up in The Professionals and The Sweeney. Another Ford "press fleet" car that spent it's early life with the accelerator pressed into the carpet...
+John McMahon I remember there were a few very serious cases of Armed robbery in London in those days but they are not as threatening as the IRA bombings at tube stations.
The good old days . Armed blaggers , safe blowers . the geli man , ( most respected ) pavement jobs , smash & grab , long firms . fraudsters , fences , hoisters etc . All gone RIP .
My uncle Jonny had he’s work van mini estate he hand painted it white. And he would talk to it like it was a spaceship lights gamma rays back in 87 Walthamstow.
Love the old motors. I had mk1 escort. Capris cortinas. Better than the featureless car’s get now. Technology was shit but the fun driving them and working on them urself. Cud even change windshield urself
Cars were great back then because they weren't full of technology. All mechanical and probably a lot more reliable than todays computer filled fashion statements. Cars are a joke these days. People are obsessed with image and think a badge on the front impresses everyone.
These 70's sets would be impossible to recreate today as most of those vehicles have rusted away. When was the last time you saw a Sherpa on the road ?
I like how the chap in the Jag started his engine and then waited for them to come and then he was dragged out his car.. a different class of criminal then possibly
Well...that was in the late 70s early 80s..l suppose. Now all those cars are collectable...and have a value.. Even a rare cortina estate.. I had a transit like that..Great vans How times have changed.. No local charging stations for electric vehicles..no signs saying 'Private Parking' you may be clamped.. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
Ah that was around 1978-79 from Cortina R Reg pulled up in front of breakers yard i’d say that car with a-year-old I saw Pete bill about three years ago in Tottenham seven sisters Road N15 cafeteria he was a lovely guy real old school. Listen great time for bed then 70s and 80s it’s a shame there wasn’t a longer video of this
The byword on old Ford's was to "savage" it e.g. slap a 3.0 Essex in there which could fit everything except the Fiesta (I actually rear engined a Fiesta MK1 van back in the eighties and nigh on killed me and me mate as the main prop going to a Sierra diff wasn't welded too good and it became a hammer of death as mate and I hastily pegged it out the motor and it destroyed itself taking out the v6 and everything else) MK1 Cortina's were very lively with a Essex, the Met used MK1 and MK2 Transit's with Essex's married to a Jag diff for the SPG, a shame they dropped it all in favour of the Cologne. Was a chap living near Sundridge Park station in Bromley who had one of the few "official" MK2 Cortina estate savages, cornering was a bit hairy but straight line off the clock and room on the pedal, in later years he put Cossie engines into MK2 and MK3 Transits showing them off at Bromley pageant.
great piece of film :-) but can honestly say that I've never seen this before , don't even know what it's called , or even when it was filmed . had to watch it twice though , that little MK1 Tina estate rare as hens teeth . really enjoyed it , better than the Sweeney !
Glorifying crime are you? But when a "foreign" person does a crime you're all quick to label their whole group as the culprits of the problems of modern day Britain and how quiet and peaceful it was before they came
Proper old bill. Chasing crimes with shooters.. unarmed" fearless 🤣 70s motor's bonus. Named most of em. That metalic Green mk 4 cortina still looks Tasty"
Lol Peter Dean aka Eastender's other killer... can only imagine what a ruck between him and Leslie Grantham would have been like, claret all over the shop buckets o' it hehehehe Nice shot of an Avenger Tiger there at start.
