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 I'm well into this show. My little one loves it. However, there is a retro related item here:  Brooks' mum drives a Hillman Avenger. This in itself is interesting but... The Avenger is on a W plate. And thats "new" W, as in like 1999 not 1981. So I ran the plate through eBay's check and it doesn't give a "not found" error. But eBay can bring no detail for make or model or colour etc. from the VRM. FYI the car is apparently registered as W971GJR What is going on here? Anyone able to find a better way to derive a make and model from a licence plate than eBay? |
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not at work so can't hpi,but plate turns up nothing so far.
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I wondered if it was a fake plate to prevent people like me looking it up LOL
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Searched thru ebay and the car comes up, But no details as to what the car is. What colour or anything, Just says 1 vehicle found....  I wonder if its likely that production companys get allocated a off the list numberplate for programs? So that they arnt using someone elses plate without their knowing. But the car can just be a shell or unregisterd POS? Think about it... They arnt going to just pick a plate out of thin air. As using mine or your plate is surely illegal without our knowing? , But then some cars wont be cars at all, But just props. But they still need to look like a car.... Or a plate the company bought and put on retention? |
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Last Edit: Apr 4, 2011 10:54:04 GMT by retrowagen1234
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Try swapping the plate arround, they may have just switched the W and the other letters.
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Gumtree doesn't recognise it
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WTF is going on with this picture? Headless pedestrians. Fuzzy bonnets. Dual hood props. Weird overcolorization.... Looks like somebody even PSed-out a guy grabbing a kip in the middle seat... lol. All that effort... for what? |
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Well I've tried it on cardatachecks.co.uk and nothing came out. Just to check the site still works I tried another plate of ours (One that doesn't work on comparison sites) and it actually found that one... Pretend plate by the look of it.
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It doesn't look right, look at the size of the car behind it....
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Davenger
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W971GJR has to be a fake plate that some gimp who knows nothing about cars has just made up.
Looks to be a fairly early MK1 Avenger judging from the badges 1970-73 at a guess.
Later MK1's had a round grille badge.
I'm off to do something a bit less geeky now ;D
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bortaf
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W971GJR has to be a fake plate that some gimp who knows nothing about cars has just made up. Looks to be a fairly early MK1 Avenger judging from the badges 1970-73 at a guess. Later MK1's had a round grille badge. I'm off to do something a bit less geeky now ;D yep they will probably have a list of unreleased plates to choose from and will just stick whatever looks good or is at the top of the pile, you have to remember the people who decide what's what on set are more worried about wether the colour of the car clashes with the actors eyes than wether the plate looks silly or not. Sometimes they appear wit hthier own plates sometimes not, when i've done film work with me cortina it kept it's own plate but Fred and her transits are often replated, depends on how "real" the directors wants to make the scene |
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Hello Chaps, I too was intrigued by the car and new W-reg-ness back when the show ran. I tried a few things then to uncover what was going on but drew a blank and moved on... until, that is, this week when I decided to look up all my old cars at the MOT checker thingy / DVLA site. Trying to recall my old reg plates from 30+ years ago was hard enough but when I'd crossed them all off and sadly found every single car I've ever owned is no longer on the road, ending with my own Avenger FTY 506L, hand painted in pink and lime green, 1500 engine with a 1250 gearbox and Viva wheels (yes the pcd's are different!) ... I remembered this Avenger Estate anomoly. Off I went to youtube and watched every Big Babies episode again - brilliant stuff... So yeah, anyhow, the reg W971GJR looks like it was never issued so used by Beeb. They prob have a filming permit for faking number plates and driving them around?? The plate does look like a freshly made one rather than them having a pair lying around in props dept. or whatever. I've watched enough Columbo episodes to think laterally nowadays on these perfect crimes so I watched only the Big Babies car scenes over again - A-ha! For a split second in the very first episode the Avenger zooms off, away from camera, with a BLACK & WHITE plate on the rear! Two or three hours later I had determined it was an authentic L-reg from the blurred images. It's fitted with a towball which made matters worse but after another hour of rewind, play, squinting, rewind, play, enlarge screen, play, pause, play etc., I settled on NPF 841L... which was of course was a red VW, sadly no longer with us. I'd come this far and couldn't give up again... The next wee-small hour or two was spent entering into the DVLA checker every single NPF: from NPF 1L to 999L. On my 779th try I smelt the whiff of success: it came back Hillman, Green! Yes! I've overcome the odds and was about to reveal the real truth about the car for the whole world to marvel at!... My whiff was shortlived. I clicked the button of victory only to find that NPF 779L met an untimley end at the beginning of 1984. Fuelled by coffee and HobNobs, I struggled on. It was 2am now. What would Columbo do? If I'm not mistaken, he'd put "Hillman Avenger Estate" into Google Images... this Columbo was getting desperate! The first image was the odd photo we have here BUT the further down is an image from FLICKR: a saucy little teal L-reg estate with a striking resemblance to our car of interest... My god, could this be it? Incredibly, the number plate hasn't been blocked out (why anyone does that is beyond me) and, sure enough, the bitter-sweet search of success revealed that THIS car is the Big Babies car and I was just one letter out, which would have saved me approx 4.7 hours of my life... I give you NPC 841L, still in use, plenty of photos of it and even an entry in the IMCDB - look up cemetery Junction or follow www.imcdb.org/vehicle_334450-Hillman-Avenger-Estate-1972.html![]() |
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 me in 1984! |
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