I used to love watching this show when I was a kid. 👌😎 My Dad was a Traffic cop at the time and would regularly rock up in a BMW528i for his break time. He had previously drove the Triumph as well but the BMW apparently was on another level performance wise. RIP Sgt Peter Mawdsley. ❤️
Fuel injected Triumph 2.5PI, as used by the Met Police. Super fast when the injection system is properly set up. Capable in excess of 125mph with manual/overdrive running on five star fuel and 0-60 in just under 8 seconds. 80-100 in direct top simply unmatched by any saloon of the day except an XJ12 or Double Six. All stats given in the magazines get the performance of this model wrong. Twin carb versions were breathlessly fussy above 3,700 rpm on what is an unusually long stroke engine, but with the early pre- '73 PI system, the engine revs smoothly right up to the 5,850 rpm red-line when on-song; usually on a hot, late afternoon in the summer. Best car I ever owned.
@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 the cars in this video are a 1978 Ford Capri 3.0 S, and a 1971 Triumph 2500 PI, the Capri being 44 years old and the triumph 51 years old. So yes your modern car will be faster than cars that are 44 and 50 years old, what’s your point? Cars in the future will be faster than your fiesta.
@@Mk7adxm My current sober Lexus GS will leave my beloved old 83 Cavalier SRi for dead. Yet that thing seemed so much quicker at the time! Agreed...you can't compare different generations for performance at all. Both the Ford and the Triumph were two of the fastest cars on the market at the time...
Yeh my dad used to race one. A mk1. 2.5pi and he towled up the pack. I have a photo of him overtaking some turbo porche. He was quite proud of the car that day. Early on in his racing it there really wasnt a car in his class that could go up against the triumph on the track.
Luvved how Bodie took every opportunity every episode to do a roll and shoot. Top notch entertainment and one if the biggest reasons for the popularity of the Capri IMHO
@@dbkingg99 exactly, or Puma, or even Cougar (silly spelling or not). What a stupid thing to do! What's next; a rebadged, large luxury VW/Audi SUV EV or van that Ford will likely name as the 'GT40' 😂
@@yarcoPenfold from what I remember the professionals before the Capri British Leyland supplied the show with triumph dolomites but kept taking them back hence the arrival of the Capri's
Both action-packed car chase sequences featured here were actually from the same episode of The Professionals titled Man Without a Past. The Ford Capri driven by Bodie (portrayed by the late Lewis Collins) is quite a cool car. The very same incidental music was used on both these action-packed car chase sequences of the Man Without a Past episode of The Professionals. An American plainclothes FBI officer (portrayed by the late Ed Bishop) was behind the wheel of a Triumph 2000 or 2500 sedan. I like watching these 2 action-packed car car chase scenes. Cool stuff.
Real cars, the Granada, the TR7, the Triumph 2500, the Capri - when cars had character. Christ even the fucking Allegro at least had the decency to at least look 'different'.
@@jjohnson-stoker Yeah, the old 'All agrro' with it's "Square steering wheel" that everyone laughed at. But several luxury roadsters now have the same. Pretty much everyone in the '70's or '80's could name a character just by his car. Ian Ogilvy's 'Simon Templar' in 'The Saint' with his white Jaguar XJS, Bodie with his Capri, Doyle with his TR7, The Sweeny with their For Granada, there was also the obligatory 'S-type jag' that was the villain's get away car.
The TR7 was a bag of shite. One of the most unreliable cars that i ever had. Was originally supposed to have the 16 valve dolly sprint set up. Instead BL opted for 8 valve..
I loved watching the series. Here in Germany it was called "Die Profis" and in the '80s I had the rare opportunity to talk to Lewis in Bochum, where he announced his movie "Das Kommando".
Can’t beat a 3.0 Capri, my dads had a 3.0 Ghia mk2, and several mk3 2.0 S, and a 2.8i but never a 3.0S, also I have some other videos on here you might like👍🏻
To all the experts on here saying that's a 2.0 Capri and not a 3.0 you can clearly see the right hand tail pipe right at the start of the clip, four cylinder Capri's had the exhaust tailpipe on the left hand side (except the Mk1), tailpipe on the right gives it away as a 3.0. You can also clearly see the two pipes at 2:04.
he wasnt around a lot as my DNA providers split when i was a kid but i always remember the cars my Dad used to turn up in in the late 70s and early 80s, capris, cortinas, a triumph, one JAAAG (i think that was the one i sat on his knee in and steered it down the road at the back of the house, stuff Health and Safety lol) , and a volvo (went to pick that up with him) watching the professionals and sweeney always reminds me of them.
For a 3 litre engine under 140 BHP, well, you certainly can tell it was a last century car! Mind, it was quite a force to reckoned with back in the day though! Think the professionals was an excellent promotion for this car Very similar to what the Italian Job did for the mini Cooper!
I suspect the stuntmen driving in this chase were Val Musetti, Triumph 2500, Colin Skeaping, Capri 3.0S. Two of Britain's leading film/TV stuntmen at the time.
@@captainbimble I have owned 32 capris and I,m still the proud owner of 3 A 1979 black 3.0s,Brooklands 280 turbo and a black Tickford love capris so unique ❤️❤️❤️
@@knoxyish Yet they managed to be highly successful in Touring car Racing in the late 70's at the hands of Gordon Spice etc, beating Rover SD1's and Triumph Dolomites etc, and not a bag of cement in sight.
Interesting that was shot in Mill Hill NW7 where I grew up. I don’t remember any of that happening. Plenty of the Morse Jaguar back in the day as it was based in Elstree Studios.
2:01 : the capri loses easily the traction, while the triumph even if it rolls, it is nevertheless stuck on the road. better handling characteristics for the triumph.
@Mark Morrissey you must be getting loads of crap from othee drivers because you are slow mate with your capri. Capri is best when meant for clothes. It would suit you.
Had a 3 litre Capri was only 138 bhp. Back end moved all over the place! Later got the 2.9i Granada that output 150bhp. Thought they were quick at the time though
Yeah it’s one of the many reasons I wanted mine too, you can’t beat watching top things like the professionals, the Sweeney, Starsky and hutch, dukes of hazard etc.
Exhilerating or what! I thought the way Bodie ran up to the Triumph and flung the door open was very fast. I would have struggled to open the damn door!
Apparently, rumour has it the someone on the production team bought the Triumph afterwards, & used it as a daily runaround. Does not however show on the DVLA website, so can't be absolutely sure if it exists or not.
Some properly good driving here, you can see the Capri driver brake hard as late possible to get weight on the front end before the handbrake turn. Respect!
Are these motors straight sixes? I'd have my old Calibre V6 back if I could, auto, you could drive up to Scotland and still get out of it refreshed. Low life insured driver wrote it off.🤬
@@Markycarandbikestuff Thank you Marky for your observation .Drivers on tv or films tend to give a wrong attitude to young thick drivers. When you been driving as long as me you will understand .
@@SuperBigwinston Sorry, i was being sarcastic, been driving myself since 1988, been driving HGV's for 26 years and passed my bike test 4 years ago, know what you mean though, there is a generation that act like they are in the dreadful Fast and Furious movies, generally TV shows wont show reckless/fast driving and the days of "the car is the star" are long gone.
@@Markycarandbikestuff I apologise Marky i thought you was being a smartass lol. I been driving since 1983 and in lorry's since a young child with my dad all over and in many many lorries really old ones with no power steering and big steering wheels to ones in the 1979. My dad drove till he retired he was stuck in France during the dockers strike. He said the dockers were ok they even had lorry v docker boxing matches he was back from Italy . He once brought a 19 year old very pretty Polish girl to Britain she was nice to him. I never took the HGV passed bike test 1999 had accident 2001 lost my right leg and many other injury's. I think most dangerous time to drive is in the evening and late evening.The cars are like rockets now in the hands of inexperienced drivers.
Terrible cars, terrible chase. with clearly speeded up film to make it look faster. The suspension on those things was like a mattress and don't get me started on those 'short-shift' gear sticks.
