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RE: The Avengermobile

To: "'Chris Kotting'" <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Subject: RE: The Avengermobile
From: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:29:34 -0700
Cc: "'Spridgets@Autox.Team.Net'" <Spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Reply-to: "Hanna, Mark" <mhanna@ball.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
     I Remember Emma driving a Lotus Elan .
     Mark Hanna
     AN5L/13731

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kotting [SMTP:ckotting@iwaynet.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 10:52 AM
> To:   'spridgets@autox.team.net'
> Subject:      RE: The Avengermobile
> 
> Curtis -
> 
> Somebody's confused (maybe me).  The only "Avengers" program I know of had
> 
> lead characters of John Steed (Patrick somebodyorother in tweed and a 
> bowler) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg in a black catsuit, oooh).  Two British 
> spys who participated in a sort of "Mission Impossible" arrangement, but 
> with far more class.
> 
> Steed's steed was a Bentley.  Emma peeled out in an E-type Jag (I think, 
> she wasn't shown driving that often).  Her husband (a Vietnam MIA, seen 
> only briefly in the final episode in which the Emma Peel character 
> appeared), drove a TD.  Emma's character was replaced by Tara King, who
> was 
> played by a typical 70's British blonde.
> 
> I don't recall ever seeing a 3 wheeler in the show, tandem seated or 
> otherwise
> 
> Chris Kotting
> ckotting@iwaynet.net.
> 
> On Tuesday, December 08, 1998 12:09 PM, Curtis Carlson 
> [SMTP:carlson@navtech.com] wrote:
> > Hi there fellow Spridgeteers....
> >
> >
> > I have some friends in California who are LBC challenged and want to
> > know what kind of car the Avengers British TV series had it's stars
> > drive around in.  The only information they were able to give me was
> > that it was a small tandem seated three-wheeler.
> >
> > Anyone know what kind of LBC "The Avengers" drove?
> >
> > Curt
> >
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