RE: RE: star cars

[Richard Hudson <richard.hudson@domain.elided>]

Stan
Try talking to Faversham Classics, Trevor is your man. I will dig out
his phone number tonight or you can check out the small ads in the back
of SOC mag if you have one. 

Faversham Classics restore and maintain only Stags, therefore they
regard themselves as specialists. They certainly can do absolutely
everything for you. Beware however they do have a very good habit of
spending your money for you.. They helped me with my Engine rebuild and
proved extremely helpful and knowledgeable.

I'll see if I can get any more companies for you tonight.

Richard Hudson
73 Auto White Stag
maybe that E-Type one day (I'll never sell the Stag though)

P.S. Pinewood studios in north London, I think these guys were
responsible for Sweeney and other such shows. It was reputed that most
of the way through the early 70's they were trashing MkII and S type
Jags at the rate of 1 per week. Amazing that there are any left

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Stan Barnett [SMTP:S.A.Barnett@domain.elided]
	Sent:	17 June 1998 20:06
	To:	Richard Hudson
	Cc:	'Ronald Brown'; 'Stag Digest'
	Subject:	Re: RE: star cars


	  Twenty odd years on it seems to be senseless vandalism
	to destroy such cars, but, at the time they weren't nostalgic
	collectors' pieces but everyday (albeit quality) vehicles. I
	seem to remember adverse comment at the time about the 
	Lambo, which was the only expensive write-off (E Types
	were only about £2,000 new) and the Studio issued a statement
	to the effect that the car was purchased as a write-off from
	an Italian breaker's yard and cosmetically restored for its
	brief part in the film.
	  As for the systematic destruction of current collector's cars,

	I remember watching The Sweeney every week, hoping there
	would be a Mk. 2 Jag. driven by one of the villains,  because if
	there was you could bet your life that, near the end of the
episode,
	there would be a great car chase and the Jag. would be
spectacularly
	written off. Now I'd love to own a good 3.8 manual, but can't
afford one!
	  Can anyone recommend a good bodyshop in East Kent, as I
	need to comprehensively restore my Stag's coachwork this year!!!
	
Stan Barnett.



	On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:33:03 +0100 Richard Hudson 
	<richard.hudson@domain.elided> wrote:
	>Hi Ronald
	>
	>Thanks for the additional Info. All goes into the database..
	>
	>The cars in the Italian Job were sadly not mock ups.. The
Ferrari that
	>you mention was most probably the Lamborghini Miura. The Mafia 
	halted it
	>with a JCB as it raced through a tunnel, The Lambo not the JCB.
The 
	JCB
	>then shovels the Miura over the wall at the side of the road
and the
	>camera sticks on it as it bounces all the way to the bottom of
the
	>ravine. Engine, interior, wheels the lot. What a crime.. The
crew should
	>have been locked up for life...
	>
	>Check out this URL, Autocar found the road
	>http://www.sonnet.co.uk/seventony/rtt_ch.htm
	><http://www.sonnet.co.uk/seventony/rtt_ch.htm> 
	>
	>The other three cars DB5 convertible and two E-Types both
series 1 
	(one
	>FHC and one Roadster) were also real cars. The DB5 was
definitely a
	>write off as it met a similar fate as the Lambo but one of the
badly
	>mangled E-Types survives to this day it was the Roadster Reg
848 
	CRY
	>(couldn't be more suitable). Believe it or not it was the very
first
	>E-Type to win a production car race back in 1961. (I think it's
	>registration was 2 BBC then.) I believe the car is now restored
and
	>owned by Paul Skilleter, a well respected Jaguar Historian.
	>
	>Bearing the above in mind, I don't think the producer was too
bothered
	>about sending three Cooper S mini's to their unfortunate
death..
	>
	>I love the film, but have to leave the room at the scene's of
senseless
	>destruction of those now "respected" works of art. As they say
you 
	can't
	>change what has happened..
	>
	>Regs
	>
	>Richard Hudson
	>73 Auto White Stag
	>E-Type series 1 1/2 FHC... maybe .. someday ahhhh
	>
	>
	>	-----Original Message-----
	>	From:	Ronald Brown [SMTP:ronb@domain.elided]
	>	Sent:	17 June 1998 12:40
	>	To:	Dave Biggs; Stag Owners Club
	>	Subject:	Re: star cars
	>
	>	Stags that I remember are from Londons Burning "Malcolm"

	and
	>Hazel , which
	>	featured Nicholas Ball ( sob sob they trashed it with a
garden
	>fork, of all
	>	things ).
	>
	>	I seem to remember shedding a tear or two at the Italian
Job
	>"when I were a
	>	nipper" to see a Ferrari , a DB5, 2 E types and numerus
Mini
	>Coopers
	>	written off.  I seem to remember my dad saying that they
were
	>only body
	>	shells, oh to have one of them now !
	>
	>
	>	----------
	>	> From: Dave Biggs <D.Biggs@domain.elided>
	>	> To: Stag Owners Club <stag@domain.elided>
	>	> Subject: Re: star cars
	>	> Date: Monday, 15 June 1998 22:25
	>	> 
	>	> Richard Hudson wrote:
	>	> > 
	>	> > Dear all
	>	> > 
	>	> > With regard to Stags on the telly I recall that
James Bond
	>stole/drove
	>	> > one, I think in Diamonds are Forever, where are you 
	now??
	>Does anybody
	>	> > remember the registration number it was definitely
one of
	>the
	>	> > pre-production cars and H reg despite the movie
being
	>released in 1971.
	>	> > 
	>	> > It was early in the film and I seem to recall the
immortal
	>Mr Connery,
	>	> > pretending to be some baddy driving his car through 
	customs
	>at Dover..
	>	> > could be wrong any Bond fans out there.
	>	> > 
	>	> > Anyone know of any other films / tv shows that
featured
	>stags.
	>	> 
	>	> Yes it was Diamonds are Forever, right at the
beginning. It
	>was a
	>	> `mustard' colour, H reg (probably RVC???H) and the
sound 
	was
	>dubbed over
	>	> with what seemed like a Triumph Herald !
	>	> 
	>	> There was a series on the telly in the UK a couple of
years
	>ago with a
	>	> dark red stag but I can't remember the name ! (I think
John
	>Thaw was in
	>	> it). A stag did appear once in Eastenders. Also there
was 
	one
	>blown up
	>	> by Jeremy Beadle !
	>	> 
	>	> Regards,
	>	> 
	>	> Dave.
	>	> -- 
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