Motoring Discussion > How it was then.	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Ted	Replies: 17

New Sun 20 Feb 11 00:32   How it was then. - Ted

Lots of nice old cars and vans in this clip. A fair few of us will remewmber most of them ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i1LltZE4q4 Just to round off Saturday night ! Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 00:57   How it was then. - Skoda

I can't name any of those cars, but i enjoyed the film :-) What was the fast one? That sounded great. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 01:23   How it was then. - Londoner

An Aston Martin. a DB4 maybe? I loved the bit where it flew over the hump-back bridge. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 06:56   How it was then. - MD

>> An Aston Martin. a DB4 maybe? >> I loved the bit where it flew over the hump-back bridge. >> That Bridge is in Uxbridge over the Grand Union Canal. My childhood stomping grounds. Happy memories. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 11:22   How it was then. - swiss tony

>> >> An Aston Martin. a DB4 maybe? >> >> I loved the bit where it flew over the hump-back bridge. >> >> >> That Bridge is in Uxbridge over the Grand Union Canal. My childhood stomping grounds. Happy >> memories. >> Indeed that was Uxbridge. Most of that extract was filmed in Beaconsfield New Town, The viaduct is just outside Beaconsfield, and the airfield was of course Denham. I know ALL those places VERY well! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 12:11   How it was then. - swiss tony

Seems the film was made at Beaconsfield studios... www.britmovie.net/Studios/history-of-beaconsfield-studios.html Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 01:35   How it was then. - FocalPoint

"What was the fast one?" Aston Martin DB4 (1958 - 63). I think. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 06:57   How it was then. - MD

Brilliant Ted although I have seen it, but many years ago. Thanks. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 07:11   How it was then. - Iffy

Good stuff, although am I the only one who lost track of who was who? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 09:15   How it was then. - R.P.

Damnit will have to get the DVD now ! Cracking film. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 09:18   How it was then. - R.P.

Just got it from Amazon for 3.97 - bargain ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 10:41   How it was then. - Zero

Its a good film yes. If you like films like that, Suggest "Robbery" a 1960s film about the great train robbery starring Stanley Baker. Loads and Loads and shedloads of 60s cars in that. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 11:49   How it was then. - Ted

Also, Hell is a City. Filmed in Manchester and on the Holmfirth moors in 1959. Stanley Baker as Det Insp Martineau. Warren Mitchell as a rep who finds the girl's body at the side of the A635......driving a white '56ish Oxford/Cambridge. Donald Pleasance, Billie Whitelaw and a host of well known facws of the period. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 11:52   How it was then. - R.P.

Googie Withers ? Had a thing about her - maybe it was the keys ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 11:53   How it was then. - Zero

Thanks Ted, remember it now, I will get a copy. I have a bit of a thing for 60's British, specially in monochrome. A much underrated period of film. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is gritty genius. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 13:49   How it was then. - Fenlander

>>>Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is gritty genius. Studied that in 6th form eng lit. I remember some girls were kept out of lessons involving that book as it was thought too racy by their parents. Oh how times have changed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 14:06   How it was then. - Ted

Another good Manchester monochrome...A taste of honey, 1961. Dora Bryan, Robert Stevens and Rita Tush. I watch it, and HIACity now and again. I knew lots of places in the film....at the time ! I interesting one for me is from HIACity. Shot in the yard at Bootle Street police station with the black Velocettes and the black J type divisional vans. The vans were still in use when I joined in'63. Superceded by B plate J4s a year later. I've got them on VT. I've got most of the Ealing Comedies, British War films and the like from the Daily Mail offers....collect vouchers and just pay the postage...bargain for a 16 DVD set. Lark Rise is on offer this week. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 20 Feb 11 14:29   How it was then. - Dog

Luvly old cars (know most of em) luvly old film - b&w + very low def = bring it on! That's how some drive around the Cornish lanes btw, but at least the little dears now have seat belts & airbags! Reply to this message | Report message