Three Thousand Five
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Thought I'd post these on here... :wink:
Last weekend I took my '72 3500 down to London to meet up with some like minded mates who are also on the Sweeney Forum, there are usually two meetings a year and some members turn out in their period motors. This year we had five classics turn up; two P6s including mine, an ex Bristol Police Mk1 Granada, a Mk2 Escort and a split screen VW bus. During the day we visited a few locations in West London that were used in an episode of the Seeney from 1975 plus some from the two cinema films released in '76 and '78.... at one point we managed to park them up and photograph them without any modern stuff getting in the way.... talk about living in a timewarp! Our first port of call is usually Colet Gardens in Hammersmith, where the opening titles sequence was filmed with the famous Bronze Mk1 Consul 'NHK 295M' (currently being restored by a forum member). The guy posing in the suit and tie with the blue 3500 is Harry Fielder who was an extra on The Sweeney, and as well appearing in many other series such as On The Buses and films like Star Wars he was Mike Pratts stand in on Randall & Hopkirk Deceased, and the late Tony Curtis's stand in on The Persuaders. After visiting the locations we retired to a nice pub in Shepards Bush where Harry regailed us with some great stories!
Hope you enjoy the pics,
Nidge :wink:
Last weekend I took my '72 3500 down to London to meet up with some like minded mates who are also on the Sweeney Forum, there are usually two meetings a year and some members turn out in their period motors. This year we had five classics turn up; two P6s including mine, an ex Bristol Police Mk1 Granada, a Mk2 Escort and a split screen VW bus. During the day we visited a few locations in West London that were used in an episode of the Seeney from 1975 plus some from the two cinema films released in '76 and '78.... at one point we managed to park them up and photograph them without any modern stuff getting in the way.... talk about living in a timewarp! Our first port of call is usually Colet Gardens in Hammersmith, where the opening titles sequence was filmed with the famous Bronze Mk1 Consul 'NHK 295M' (currently being restored by a forum member). The guy posing in the suit and tie with the blue 3500 is Harry Fielder who was an extra on The Sweeney, and as well appearing in many other series such as On The Buses and films like Star Wars he was Mike Pratts stand in on Randall & Hopkirk Deceased, and the late Tony Curtis's stand in on The Persuaders. After visiting the locations we retired to a nice pub in Shepards Bush where Harry regailed us with some great stories!
Hope you enjoy the pics,
Nidge :wink: