Jon,
I'm sure you're right, PBS budgets are probably pretty tight and the car may
belong to someone associated with the show. I was just happy to see a TR3
in a fairly current TV series.
Bill
Bill Beecher
'58 TR-3A TS30766L "Tarbaby"
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From: John Macartney [mailto:macartney.john@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:11 AM
To: Chip19474@aol.com; bill_beecher@flash.net; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 on PBS
I believe the time period for the show is around 1953-54, guess they
couldn't find a nice TR2.
Given that film production companies do *sometimes* spend reasonable time
searching for cars that exactly match the time period for the storyline, I
guess there are some that don't have too many 'automotively-minded'
reseachers to get the production absolutely right. I've met a good few of
the latter group in recent years. Equally, there are quite a lot of people
(in the UK anyway) who won't make their cars available for a shoot and so
the production people have to go with the best that's available, even if it
doesn't quite 'fit' for the enthusiast.
Jonmac
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