>> >Spotted by my wife on One Life to Live on Tuesday (American Soap Opera), a
>> >scene supposedly taking place in Ireland, which may have been filmed on
>> >location, included convicted rapist Todd Manning going off the show, over a
>> >cliff, in the trunk/boot of a Triumph TR7. My wife spotted the car, but
>> >identified it as "a convertible, with the same door handles, seats, and
>> >trunk, as yours."
>>
>> We had a similiar occurrance in a British TV programme, can't remember what
>it
>> was called, but it was about a modern day British Fighter Squadron, one of
>the
>> pilot's was thrashing his newly acquired TR7(or 8, I think it was badged as
>> one) convertible complete with body kit(looked like a Grinnall) along some
>> lanes, then whilst trying to change a cassette, he took his eye's off the
>road
>> for a second, and......voila, a cliff appearred(NO, not Cliff Richard) which
>he
>> then drove over......NOT a very clever thing to do. Totally trashed the car
>> :-(
>>
> In the Simon & Simon / Magnum P.I. cross-over show that they made years
>ago, in part two where the Simon brothers are down in Mexico trying to
>recover something or other, they get in a car chase with a bad guy who is
>driving a yellow TR7 and at the end of the chase, guess what? Yup, over a
>cliff... end of another TR7.
> What? Is that how BL got rid of leftover TR7s? Sold them to TV studios as
>cheap cars to destroy? :-)
I also remember as a kid watching a film that was set somewhere in Europe(I
think!!!) and involved an early Spitfire and an Austin Healey racing down a
mountain road(Not a very fair race though), anyway, the bad guy in the film had
cut the brake hose of the..........Healey!!! and over the cliff it went(What a
bloody shame). Do you think in years to come we'll see films with MGR V8's
MGF's, TVR Griffiths, etc being dumped over cliffs?
I can't even contemplate how many MkII and S-type Jags have 'died' this way,
anyone seen '11 Harrow House'?
Rich
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