Always found it funny at the end of the series Gene Hunt was looking at a brochure of the merc 190E diesel for his replacement car, a bit slow for car chases!
Not sure how long the series took place over from 1981, but there were no 190Ds or any 190s in the UK until 1983. I would prefer to see him in a 2.3 16v 😂
Always wondered what became of the Quattro used for the final episode of Series 3. I'm so glad the car was repaired and put back on the road. It would have been such a shame to scrap it. There were at least two replicas doing the rounds at car shows back in the day. One a really mint example with a black leather interior, complemented by the owner dressing up as Gene Hunt. The other a slightly scruffy example with rusty wings, wheel arches and sills. Haven't seen either for years sadly.
i'm glad they kept the bullet holes, would have been even better with the original doors. can we just take a moment to think what a great job they did of making the car look completely destroyed without actually destroying it?
I love ashes to ashes and life on mars, i hope these cars do appear one day as they are so famous in British TV. A great video again i love finding out the fates of cars once used on screen.
As I posted above, there was also a much later Quattro used, E417 LUY, which my friend Anni used to own. She still owns the Gold mk2 Cavalier, unmarked Police Car, UDL 849Y, as well as the Rover SD1 “Jam Sandwich”, LRG 956X, both used in the show, including the last episode. She was present for filming of every series, with her Quattro! I’m surprised people didn’t know about her car! She has absolutely loads of photos of the filming, which I’ve seen!
@@R1CH130 Her quattro was not used on the show. The Cavalier was. Then after filming she bought the fake police Rover 2000. She fitted JLY751V plates for some events but the actual car was not used for filming or in any official way. Then she sold the car.
***** E417 LUY ****** was also used in the show! It belonged to my friend Anni and she has photos from the filming of the show, including photos with “Gene” and other cast and crew members! She also still owns the Gold Cavalier and Rover SD1 “Jam Sandwish” used in the show!
Another great watch Oscar. Just shows what a few years on does to the value of a classic car. Bullet holes in one of those Quattro’s now would be unthinkable. 👍👍👍
Great video, glad they both survived. Was an excellent series but as much as love it the British police would not have had a quattro in 81. Even at the time of the show was thinking what they might have had . I would think granada 2.8i S or rover 3500 S shame it wasn't 82 as they could had a vitesse
not far enough removed from the cars in life on mars. the quattro anchored the show in the 80s. even if the actors, script, music and wardrobe had been crap, the quattro would have set the era.
I can remember a post on the rc heli addicts forum by a owner of the bullet hole car asking if people thought he should fill the holes to fully restore it. Can’t remember to much more but it did have pictures of the car at the time.
Boon's BSA A65 or one used in the show was in an auction in Carmarthen at Peter Francis Auctions late 90s or 2000 it still had Texas Rangers stickers and some camera mounts i wish i could have bought it..... i cant remember what it went for but it was straight out of storage. 😎 🏴🏴🏴 😎
Great video, all hail the mighty quattro! Just rewatching the series now and love the quattro, although do feel Gene Hunt would have been a Ford man after the Cortina.
At the beginning of the year I was driving from reading to camberley in Surrey and I was sure I saw that car as we drove through the sticks, I only got a glimpse of the reg before it went around a corn, red Audi, jly reg. Could’ve come from anywhere but that was where I saw it.
There was the same Audi in the show room at our local dealership in Tamworth not to long ago. Dont know if it was one of the two cars? Wish i’d gone to have a look now 😢
I was told by a neighbour of mine that his son in law bought a 'red audi from a TV show' around about the time you're suggesting. I will have to enquire and see what I find out.
Loved both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. A shame the producers couldn't get the correct registration plate for a UK Quattro. The orginal Quattro when on sale at the end of 1980 and the first examples started appearing on UK roads in early 1981 when new cars then were on the 'W' registration plate not V. I'm pretty certain also that in the first few years of production, the UK only got left hand drive examples with RHD models only appearing in 1983 when I think the new cars carried the 'Y' registration plate changing to 'A' in August 1983. Sticks in my mind as my Dad worked at a VW/Audi dealership in South London until the end of 1983.
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Can't comment on LHD vs RHD debate but rhe plate (in TV land at least) could have had a private plate either fitted by Gene Hunt or even a possible short term previous owner. We don't know if Gene had it from brand new or not.
It’s not due to other commitments that Lazarus isn’t being made. They couldn’t get funding and with the delay a very important cast member isn’t keen anymore.
Both Audis' mentioned where outside (but within the confines of elstree studios, in sight from the main road, by the roundabout) for a considerable amount of time, many months, possibly a year. Then disappeared.
APH was at Elstree. HWX wasn’t it. It was taken away from Northolt under cover so nobody saw what happening to hit before the episode aired. It was kept hidden until Guy from Action Cars did it up a bit and sold it.
I saw that ad in 2014 and was like OH so that's why it shows up so well in the nightscenes, its in the BMW E30 Red Orange from back then, he had the paint color listed, so someone made a custom, like their own version using the quattro, also the car didnt have a sunroof fitted, they put on a fake one for the original car, when they found and got the backup with the different rims on it with the wider tires, which did have the sunroof fitted, but the OG didnt, it even shows up in shots in the first series funny they did that but didnt do a rimswap, also with the MOT's I think based on the time, it might be exempt now, the 30 or 40 year rule as 2010 - 1983, it was about 27 years old at the end of the show, so that might be why its not showing up now and I forgot how much it hurt to see that thing shot up, and I though the shock tower binned it really, so the things still around ironically timed as I've been looking at quattro's lately too, and you say rusty, what did audi not use Galvanized metal as well back then which actually given that 83 right hander I was looking at isnt wrong actually like so both ferrari and porsche in 1984 started using that, wonder when audi did really.
Does the "view test location" option in My Car Check tell you the address/number of the MOT station? If it does and both cars were done at the same place, it would support the same owner theory.
I have a picture of JLY751V parked at Elstree studios (where EastEnders/ Holby City filmed rather than the Strictly place) on 13 Sept 2013. Looks in pretty good nick with no obvious signs of bodywork etc.
APH had a hydraulic handbrake and the rear wheel drive was disconnected from the 4WD. It would lock up one back wheel. HWX kept it’s 4WD. When Audi tidied the car up for Children In Need it was re-instated and the hydraulic handbrake replaced with a standard one.
When Ashes to Ashes first aired... there was a two page article in our loacal paper "the south wales evening post" in Swansea on the Audi used ,i dont have a copy of the article but it was a good read as i recognised the chap who had done some of the work on it as an old School friend, it might be possible to look through back copies via the library in Swansea. I am not sure what Reg No it was ok 👍 🏴🏴🏴 👍
Wonderful! Ashes to Ashes....Keeley Hawes....now we're talking! Maybe just me, but I cannot think of any lady more attractive than Keeley was at that time. Anyhow back to reality and the Quattro. A friend of mine who I did a lot of work with owned one of these cars for about 2 years. I was lucky enough to drive it quite a bit and let me tell you all, they were out of this world. The looks, the sound, the handling, something else. Fantastic video.
Didn't Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes take place in a version of the 70s and 80s which had been created by Gene Hunt? So historical inaccuracies don't matter because it wasn't real anyway.
Off topic but does anyone remember a TV series in the 80's about an Australian detective in London ?, he drove a Mini 1275 GT, vaguely remember it from my childhood and been bugging me for years, think the main guy might have been the actor that played Goose in the original Mad Max.
It’s different owners for the two cars. APH is still nice and in a private collection. HWX is currently languishing in a bad state at a garage in Birmingham. Best not to speculate and stick to the facts.
Pretty sure one of them was in a cars from telly museum. I’m sure I’ve seen another u tuber do a tour and one was there. Bullet hole one I think, up north somewhere
I feel like a Capri 2.8i or a 280Z was a more realistic choice of a car for the Gene Hunt. A video about continuity errors would be fantastic, Ashes to Ashes was full of them.
They could have at least put a W plate on the car for filming. Couldn't watch the series for all the glaring errors - in 1981 Hunt wouldn't have driven a Quattro - it bugs me til this day! Lol!
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Always found it funny at the end of the series Gene Hunt was looking at a brochure of the merc 190E diesel for his replacement car, a bit slow for car chases!
Not sure how long the series took place over from 1981, but there were no 190Ds or any 190s in the UK until 1983. I would prefer to see him in a 2.3 16v 😂
@@andyb3666 By series 3 it was in 1984 as each series progressed another year
He should of been looking for a 2.8 injection Capri in those days 👍
Another superb posting, thanks fella :-)
Glad you enjoyed it
Owned a an Audi GT 2.2 1984 in Tornado Red . Incredible car. Wife loved driving it around South East London.
They are great cars, I've got a 1984 Coupe GT 2.2 in Alpine White. Keeps up with modern traffic very well and can still overtake most of it 😁
Always wondered if that reg was real, brilliant video mate, one of the best shows made and an awesome car, crazy to think what these are worth now
Glad you enjoyed it
Always wondered what became of the Quattro used for the final episode of Series 3. I'm so glad the car was repaired and put back on the road. It would have been such a shame to scrap it. There were at least two replicas doing the rounds at car shows back in the day. One a really mint example with a black leather interior, complemented by the owner dressing up as Gene Hunt. The other a slightly scruffy example with rusty wings, wheel arches and sills. Haven't seen either for years sadly.
i'm glad they kept the bullet holes, would have been even better with the original doors. can we just take a moment to think what a great job they did of making the car look completely destroyed without actually destroying it?
Edward Heath is the bloke that dressed up as Hunt. He still has the car.
Another great and interesting video.....keep them coming 👍
Thanks, will do!
I love ashes to ashes and life on mars, i hope these cars do appear one day as they are so famous in British TV. A great video again i love finding out the fates of cars once used on screen.
Glad you enjoyed it
As I posted above, there was also a much later Quattro used, E417 LUY, which my friend Anni used to own.
She still owns the Gold mk2 Cavalier, unmarked Police Car, UDL 849Y, as well as the Rover SD1 “Jam Sandwich”, LRG 956X, both used in the show, including the last episode.
She was present for filming of every series, with her Quattro!
I’m surprised people didn’t know about her car!
She has absolutely loads of photos of the filming, which I’ve seen!
@@R1CH130 That quattro was not used for filming. Stop saying it was.
@@mholiday but it was
@@R1CH130 Her quattro was not used on the show.
The Cavalier was. Then after filming she bought the fake police Rover 2000.
She fitted JLY751V plates for some events but the actual car was not used for filming or in any official way. Then she sold the car.
***** E417 LUY ****** was also used in the show!
It belonged to my friend Anni and she has photos from the filming of the show, including photos with “Gene” and other cast and crew members!
She also still owns the Gold Cavalier and Rover SD1 “Jam Sandwish” used in the show!
That quattro was never used in the show. Ruecroft’s Cavalier was and then she bought the pretend Rover police car after filming.
Excellent, absolutely fascinating bit of detective work, loved the series,loved the cars!!
Thanks! We much catch up soon!
Another great watch Oscar. Just shows what a few years on does to the value of a classic car. Bullet holes in one of those Quattro’s now would be unthinkable. 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I remember watching this series when it first came out!😊
We had JLY at Watford Audi for a launch event in 2010. It was supplied by AUDI UK who informed us that it would be part of the heritage collection.
Great video, glad they both survived. Was an excellent series but as much as love it the British police would not have had a quattro in 81. Even at the time of the show was thinking what they might have had . I would think granada 2.8i S or rover 3500 S shame it wasn't 82 as they could had a vitesse
Glad you enjoyed it, and I think you make a very good point.
not far enough removed from the cars in life on mars. the quattro anchored the show in the 80s. even if the actors, script, music and wardrobe had been crap, the quattro would have set the era.
Another great upload. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Another brilliant and interesting video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
I saw the one with the bullet holes at the NEC classic show years ago
I can remember a post on the rc heli addicts forum by a owner of the bullet hole car asking if people thought he should fill the holes to fully restore it. Can’t remember to much more but it did have pictures of the car at the time.
The second car also had a deeper dish wheels fitted
Correct, but allegedly they planned to swap them over if it caused a continuity issues.
@@oscarsgarage447They were never swapped over
Any chance of tracing some motorcycles used in tv programmes?
For instance the Norton commando in boon?
Excellent content btw
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Thanks. Always interested if there is a story. Did try finding Lewis Collins Harris Magnum but drew a blank.
@@oscarsgarage447 That's a shame, I once had a quick look online for any info on that bike and didn't find any.
@@oscarsgarage447 Was that his own personal bike or was it in the Professionals ?
Boon's BSA A65 or one used in the show was in an auction in Carmarthen at Peter Francis Auctions late 90s or 2000 it still had Texas Rangers stickers and some camera mounts i wish i could have bought it..... i cant remember what it went for but it was straight out of storage. 😎 🏴🏴🏴 😎
He couldn't ride a motorcycle, it shows! Peter Elphick just rolled it into place after being pushed
Great video, all hail the mighty quattro! Just rewatching the series now and love the quattro, although do feel Gene Hunt would have been a Ford man after the Cortina.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Top stuff again!!
Thanks!
They are priceless items and belong in a museum
With the miles they are doing, they might be in someone's private museum.
Never watched the program but an interesting blog
At the beginning of the year I was driving from reading to camberley in Surrey and I was sure I saw that car as we drove through the sticks, I only got a glimpse of the reg before it went around a corn, red Audi, jly reg.
Could’ve come from anywhere but that was where I saw it.
JLY751V isn’t a legal reg any more. It died with the Datsun Sunny that MGM cars had. What you will have seen is JLY751W which is a on fan’s quattro.
The videos about tv cars are great. How about looking into the Fiat which was used in Peter Kays Car Share? I think there was more than one car used.
Bit recent for my usual targets, but can have a nose about and see if there is a story
There was the same Audi in the show room at our local dealership in Tamworth not to long ago. Dont know if it was one of the two cars? Wish i’d gone to have a look now 😢
Fire up the sunny 😅 loved the series and life on Mars I would say you are right I would say the same person owns the 2 cars
I was told by a neighbour of mine that his son in law bought a 'red audi from a TV show' around about the time you're suggesting. I will have to enquire and see what I find out.
That would be great!
Loved both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. A shame the producers couldn't get the correct registration plate for a UK Quattro. The orginal Quattro when on sale at the end of 1980 and the first examples started appearing on UK roads in early 1981 when new cars then were on the 'W' registration plate not V. I'm pretty certain also that in the first few years of production, the UK only got left hand drive examples with RHD models only appearing in 1983 when I think the new cars carried the 'Y' registration plate changing to 'A' in August 1983. Sticks in my mind as my Dad worked at a VW/Audi dealership in South London until the end of 1983.
Can't comment on LHD vs RHD debate but rhe plate (in TV land at least) could have had a private plate either fitted by Gene Hunt or even a possible short term previous owner. We don't know if Gene had it from brand new or not.
Great video again love the Car Sosage shirt!
Thanks again!
One of the best British TV cars. Excellent in depth video 👌
Glad you liked it!
@@oscarsgarage447 loved it!
I watched them film the title sequence - happened to be walking home from work through Shoreditch
Hmm I've just watched the title sequence and it didn't look familiar - they were filming something with the car anyway!
Believe it or not the creators have been working on another series, but due to other commitments it will be years before it sees the light of day.
It’s not due to other commitments that Lazarus isn’t being made. They couldn’t get funding and with the delay a very important cast member isn’t keen anymore.
Both Audis' mentioned where outside (but within the confines of elstree studios, in sight from the main road, by the roundabout) for a considerable amount of time, many months, possibly a year. Then disappeared.
APH was at Elstree. HWX wasn’t it. It was taken away from Northolt under cover so nobody saw what happening to hit before the episode aired. It was kept hidden until Guy from Action Cars did it up a bit and sold it.
I saw that ad in 2014 and was like OH so that's why it shows up so well in the nightscenes, its in the BMW E30 Red Orange from back then, he had the paint color listed, so someone made a custom, like their own version using the quattro, also the car didnt have a sunroof fitted, they put on a fake one for the original car, when they found and got the backup with the different rims on it
with the wider tires, which did have the sunroof fitted, but the OG didnt, it even shows up in shots in the first series
funny they did that but didnt do a rimswap, also with the MOT's I think based on the time, it might be exempt now, the 30 or 40 year rule
as 2010 - 1983, it was about 27 years old at the end of the show, so that might be why its not showing up now
and I forgot how much it hurt to see that thing shot up, and I though the shock tower binned it really, so the things still around
ironically timed as I've been looking at quattro's lately too, and you say rusty, what did audi not use Galvanized metal as well back then
which actually given that 83 right hander I was looking at isnt wrong actually
like so both ferrari and porsche in 1984 started using that, wonder when audi did really.
Does the "view test location" option in My Car Check tell you the address/number of the MOT station? If it does and both cars were done at the same place, it would support the same owner theory.
Good thought, but that feature is only available through the DVLA website and you require the document number off the front of the V5
@@ExaFren Forget ‘theories’ …they are owned by two different people
I have a picture of JLY751V parked at Elstree studios (where EastEnders/ Holby City filmed rather than the Strictly place) on 13 Sept 2013. Looks in pretty good nick with no obvious signs of bodywork etc.
That was APH …it wasn’t in nice condition when at Elstree
Did both cars have working 4x4? Since I didn’t think it was possible to handbrake turn a Quattro (cause the brake would be fighting the front wheels)
Good question. Don't have an answer...
APH had a hydraulic handbrake and the rear wheel drive was disconnected from the 4WD. It would lock up one back wheel. HWX kept it’s 4WD. When Audi tidied the car up for Children In Need it was re-instated and the hydraulic handbrake replaced with a standard one.
What's the bike pic on the wall, can't make out who it is
John Reynolds on the 2003 Rizla Suzuki BSB
When Ashes to Ashes first aired... there was a two page article in our loacal paper "the south wales evening post" in Swansea on the Audi used ,i dont have a copy of the article but it was a good read as i recognised the chap who had done some of the work on it as an old School friend, it might be possible to look through back copies via the library in Swansea. I am not sure what Reg No it was ok 👍 🏴🏴🏴 👍
Wonderful! Ashes to Ashes....Keeley Hawes....now we're talking! Maybe just me, but I cannot think of any lady more attractive than Keeley was at that time. Anyhow back to reality and the Quattro. A friend of mine who I did a lot of work with owned one of these cars for about 2 years. I was lucky enough to drive it quite a bit and let me tell you all, they were out of this world. The looks, the sound, the handling, something else. Fantastic video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Didn't Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes take place in a version of the 70s and 80s which had been created by Gene Hunt? So historical inaccuracies don't matter because it wasn't real anyway.
Both cars are owned by a good friend of mine
1:50 artistic licence?
Were both cars MOT'd at the same place ? that would almost confirm the are both now owned by the same person.
Off topic but does anyone remember a TV series in the 80's about an Australian detective in London ?, he drove a Mini 1275 GT, vaguely remember it from my childhood and been bugging me for years, think the main guy might have been the actor that played Goose in the original Mad Max.
Here you go. m.imdb.com/title/tt0120932/
Can't find anything on the Mini though
@@oscarsgarage447 Pretty sure that's it, thanks, i'll dig deeper see if he drove a Mini, may have been another series which would be a bummer lol.
@@oscarsgarage447 Yep, here it is a Bronze 1275GT at 1:25 ua-cam.com/video/P5dEp0dXyWQ/v-deo.html
The TV series was called Call me mister, one of the episodes was filmed in Southend on Sea in Essex.
It’s different owners for the two cars. APH is still nice and in a private collection. HWX is currently languishing in a bad state at a garage in Birmingham.
Best not to speculate and stick to the facts.
Pretty sure one of them was in a cars from telly museum. I’m sure I’ve seen another u tuber do a tour and one was there. Bullet hole one I think, up north somewhere
The Cars Of The Stars museum collection was sold to Florida in 2011. If you can find a link to the video that would be great.
No it wasn’t
@@oscarsgarage447Peter from Cars Of The Stars never had either quattro .
Boss had one of these in 1993
Oscar have you tried looking for trotters reliant ?!
Check out our other videos, did it a couple of months ago
A couple of comments relating to seeing the cars at Audi garages etc... perhaps Audi UK bought them both?!
Not impossible, but you imagine they would have popped up doing promotional work or on display since then?
Nope,they bought neither car.
@@mholiday fair enough, any idea where they did go then?
@@markf4720 Two different purchasers …both U.K.
APH still in nice condition …HWX is back to being a dog.
Surely check the MOT locations to see if they match would ‘confirm’ if they were both with one owner
It would, but I need the document number off the V5, and for that I need the owner...
Is the test location the same ? Mileage is probably to/from test center ? If so just need to scope out a 9 mile radius of the test center. 🤣
DVLA are one step ahead of you... you can only discover the test location if you have the document number off the V5...
Richard Hammond had the first car in his collection
Really. Do you have something to verify this I can use?
It’s on his video of his car collection .
Can you add a link?
@@oscarsgarage447Richard never had either of the A2A cars.
Of we're being pedantic.... The "Nissan sunny" featured in this video wouldn't have been anything like the one that had the v-reg plate on it
If I didn't have a pedantic comment, I would be disappointed... 😂
Should have made him drive an Allegro.
The bad guys could have just walked away...
I feel like a Capri 2.8i or a 280Z was a more realistic choice of a car for the Gene Hunt. A video about continuity errors would be fantastic, Ashes to Ashes was full of them.
Interesting idea, will take a look.
A Capri yes, but a 280? Highly unlikely.
'anoracky', sure, but sometimes a Devil is in details
I'm a full zipped up, hood up kind of guy... 😂
They could have at least put a W plate on the car for filming. Couldn't watch the series for all the glaring errors - in 1981 Hunt wouldn't have driven a Quattro - it bugs me til this day! Lol!
Exactly
Me too! Brilliant choice of car but wrong registration!
The font of the number plate was wrong too 😟
It's a tv programme, get a grip.
Imagine you guys down the pub
Find luthers volvos
Nothing wrong with a Nissan Sunny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agree, just can't see Gene Hunt chasing crooks in one... 😉
@@oscarsgarage447 absolutely - my thumbnail is a Sunny Estate hence the joke 😂
@@oscarsgarage447He would if it was a Nissan Sunny GTI-R
Great informative show, but you desperately need to polish your presenting skills, I had to turn off halfway through with sheer frustration.
I'm afraid that's me, it's what you get.