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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5084   
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Fascinating photographs, and you are right could be from a movie. However, they could also be from a fairground ride attraction, the smaller pod looks very much like a fairground ticket booth.
I could be wrong but movie props tend not to be so involved with steering linkages and combustion engines, they tend to be just shells or small models that with clever camera angles look life size. The first aid sticker looks out of place with the futuristic design. |
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12th Apr 2014 1:01pm |
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| Clive Member Since: 21 Mar 2014 Location: Littleborough Posts: 467  
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My initial thought on the first one was of the Judge Dredd vehicle, built by LR and based on the forward control, but then I looked it up and saw I was miles off
http://www.landroverclub.net/Club/HTML/Judge_Dredd.htm |
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12th Apr 2014 2:07pm |
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| sweepc Member Since: 19 Jun 2011 Location: uk Posts: 568 
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Trying to work out what it said on the front (second pic down) you cant make out possibly a G-VO on the top and PO lower down, may give a clue to finding out what it was
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12th Apr 2014 3:21pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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I recognise the first one but old age is preventing me from remembering were and when.
I'll probably wake up in the middle of the night in a few weeks time and remember were and when but will have forgotten why I was trying to remember. Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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12th Apr 2014 3:34pm |
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| me@td5.org Member Since: 16 Jan 2011 Location: Warwick Posts: 856 
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The Double steering wheels are ringing a bell with me. I thought 5th Element...but it's not from there. www.td5.org
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12th Apr 2014 3:38pm |
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| wyvern Member Since: 14 Dec 2009 Location: Cornwall Posts: 2073 
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looks like something out of the Flash Gordon film ..
but that was a flying machine not a land vehicle ... the plot thickens! Poppy - TDCI (Puma) 110XS 2.2 - Camper conversion - see the build here - https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic56530.html Elgar -TDCI(Puma) 110XS Dormobile - now sold Devon & Cornwall 4x4 Response - DC126  |
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12th Apr 2014 3:40pm |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5084
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My money is still on an attraction ride it looks to well made for a movie prop! The chassis looks well constructed and strong. It has a look of several Science Fiction craft but different enough to avoid and copyright issues.
The top lettering could be GYRO perhaps the bottom word could be POD Last edited by gilarion on 12th Apr 2014 5:30pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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12th Apr 2014 5:19pm |
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| gilarion Member Since: 05 Dec 2013 Location: Wales Posts: 5084
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Just another thought the bottom lettering could read POLICE and as it is painted in the same colours as early seventies police Panda Cars that may also give a clue...
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12th Apr 2014 5:26pm |
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| megatoad Member Since: 07 Jan 2012 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 358 
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Yes, I was suspecting it could be Police.
The smaller pod also was driven and had a petrol engine, but I suspect it was a filmed as a driverless pod. I had also thought of the vehicles in Woody Allens "The Sleeper" but of course that was difinatly Hollywood He who dies with the most toys wins 
Defender 90 & 110, S1 80", Disco 1, S111 88 LRSOC & CVLRC |
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13th Apr 2014 9:05pm |
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| megatoad Member Since: 07 Jan 2012 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 358
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The mystery has been solved courtessy of the OLLRites !
A BBC & CH4 production from 1996 called "Cold Lazarus" I have just watched episode 1 and can confirm that both vehicles are used and that it says "POLIZ" on the front of the larger vehicles. Off to bed now He who dies with the most toys wins
Defender 90 & 110, S1 80", Disco 1, S111 88 LRSOC & CVLRC |
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13th Apr 2014 10:28pm |
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| -[Allan]- Member Since: 22 Mar 2014 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 44 
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Nice detective work.
In the opening credits they have a really tight turning circle, one assumes four wheel steer from the twin steering wheels.
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20th Apr 2014 6:57pm |
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| Jimb1978 Member Since: 05 Sep 2012 Location: Huddersfield Posts: 804  
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The first one would make a great caravan! 2002 110 td5
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21st Apr 2014 5:38pm |
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| pjb Member Since: 08 Apr 2009 Location: Sunny Oxford Posts: 1244 |
how very interesting
Some very good detectives out there 2020 P300 HSE |
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22nd Apr 2014 10:55am |
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