1968: THUNDERBIRD FAB 1 in the Blue Peter studio | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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- Blue Peter presenters Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves bring a fully-functioning life-size replica of Lady Penelope's iconic Rolls-Royce, FAB 1 into the studio.
Originally broadcast 13 June, 1968.
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Gotta love the revolving number plates ‘in case you’re being chased’… because I’m sure there were loads of 22ft, 3 ton pink vehicles to hide amongst.
In one episode of the show, the local policeman says to Lady P "Oh, it's you, M'Lady. I thought I recognised the car."
With those powers of observation he should have been a detective instead of just a plod on the beat.
Not a problem for Regan and Carter……I could see Parker being told to get his trousers on…….
My thoughts precisely.
I mean perhaps if you find those hilarious Pink Lincoln Town car Limousines used for Hen parties
Yes pink 6 wheel Rollers were very common is those FAB times.
John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purves and Thunderbirds.... great memories for those of us who were kids in the UK in the sixties. ❤️
...And beyond. I was born in '78 and both 'Blue Peter' and 'Thunderbirds' were still much loved well into the 1980s and after. :) Although sadly ('tho BP is still, just about, going), it is now somewhat of a bygone era.
And Australia
Thunderbirds was on Irish kids TV well into the nineties! FAB Scott!
@@peterlarkin762 In the UK too. After rattling around on the odd ITV region during the 1980s, it had a huge revival when BBC Two ran it on Friday evenings (alongside classic 'Doctor Who') in the early 1990s - with the classic tie-in 'Blue Peter' Tracey Island make, and several more revivals after that.
When the announcer said that it's five-to-five I expected someone to shout CRACKERJACK!
Love the whisper quiet doors 😁👌
sounded like a cement mixer
Well lady Penelope always did like a bit of rough
The changing number plate is perfect when you want to blend in
And which take half an hour to fully open! Blimey, if Lady Penelope had to get out in a hurry for a wee, Parker would be searching for a mop!! :)
XD XD XD
Having been born in the early 60s, I feel sad sometimes because videos like this, remind me just how Simple and innocent life was back then: there was so much optimism and Fun; the people who built that ridiculous contraption, did it for sheer enjoyment, fully aware it was ridiculous...but it gave so much pleasure to so many kids (and I daresay, a few adults). Sad we have lost that innocence from those days...
@@pepwaverley2185 Good call: I hadn't noticed as it had been a while since I had seen the TV series, but you're right of course.
Pervert
Innocence is the thing. Everything nowadays and for the past couple of decades (says an oldie like me born in the late '70s, ahem!!) seems to have need for such attitude and aggression, even the stuff aimed towards children. Even with something like FAB1's crime fighting skills, pretend machine guns et al, it was all innocence and knowing, harmless make-believe fun. Innocence and imagination were the two things that fuelled our young lives.
I agree, life was literally a Garden of Eden with nothing bad ever happening before the 70's completely ruined everything.
@@scottabc72 Damn those 1970s.
I have been in this car!
It arrived at our Saturday morning pictures at the old ABC Granada cinema in Portland Road, Hove, Sussex. There was an announcement at the end of our Saturday morning film show and we all filed out to the rear car park to see this amazing car. We queued up and took our turns sitting in the rear seat, it sat three kids across and as one kid got out of the right hand door, we shuffled up and the next kid got in via the left hand door and so on.
The thing that amazed me most was the telephone! There was actually a telephone in the car. At that time we never had a phone in our house (in fact we never had one up until the time I left home in 1981!!!). We used the local phone box to make calls, so to see one in a car made us pretty excited.
After about a minute my time in FAB1 was up and out of the door I went…
The car was huge and a lovely colour pink. I assume it went to cinemas and events on a countrywide tour?
Around 54 years ago now, but I still remember it well…F.A.B😜
Lovely story ♥️
Me too. It was at British car auctions in Frimley. My dad grabbed me out of bed as a kid to,go and sit in It!
I believe the bloke who owned it lived in Portslade. I encountered it at an event at Hove Lagoon but I don't remember if I got to go inside. I was only about 5!
Hove’ actually, Parker !
It was on display at hove lagoon along with chitty chitty bang bang and my sister and I had our photograph taken sitting in chitty chitty bang bang wish I still had that photo
I loved it when Peter Purves said that it would be handy to change the number plates if you were in a car chase. As if changing the number plate would stop you from recognising such a distinctive car. Love Thunderbirds. Love Blue Peter.
Aah but it could also change colour to Peppermint blue or Daffodil yellow.
Just try finding it then!
Pink was such a common colour on almost every family car in the sixties, or was it black, can’t remember now. 🥴
@@bokhans I think dull colours were the order of the day until the swinging 60s came along when anything went.
Made me laugh also how long it takes for the flippin' thing to actually revolve around, by which time any pursuer would have had ample time to get a good look and job down the licence plate number! :) Great nostalgia though, halcyon days.
My grandchildten are surrounded by the most amazing technology but just take it for granted. We went 'wow' at the worlds slowest and loudest electrical doors...m'lady.
The car itself wasn't up to much as a vehicle. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were supposed to arrive at the premier of "Thunderbirds Are Go" in it. But it broke down halfway and they had to get a taxi.
Despite fully supporting FAB 1 in the TV series, Rolls Royce took a severe dislike to the real life car and tried on several occasions to buy it so that they could destroy it.
But can I ask you what you want your grand kids to do? Do you expect them to worship the technology and say thank you to it every day.
It took 3 miles of wiring to operate those doors😅
@@treatb09 Battery to switch, switch to motor, there we go 10 feet.
As a young kid I was invited to the Thunderbird studios in Slough Trading Estate and had a brilliant time watching a bunch of grown men blowing up models of cars and planes and space rockets. I remember a model of Lady Penelope's car running on a rolling road, but I wish I'd seen the full size car.
Wow,you don’t know how lucky you were!
I've seen it at one of the motoring museums , I can't remember if it was Gaydon or Beuleau though... come to think of it the car may of been from the 1990's Thunderbirds movie. I had a couple of doobies that day so memories are a little blurry...
@@olatron 😁
1:59
Copper: Did you get the licence plate number?
Bystander: No, but it was a humongous pink Rolls with six wheels and a clear domed cabin.
Copper: Sorry sir, without a license plate we can't do anything. Could be any humongous pink Rolls with six wheels and a clear domed cabin.
This is brilliant! Such a blast from the past. As a child I loved Blue Peter and Thunderbirds and this just brings it all back.
They tried n the 2004 Movie.
So sad they never went for a series after the film. I thought the did a very good job of bringing Thunderbirds to life.
Absolutely amazing! Gerry Anderson’s shows were so futuristic and imaginative! Just top notch in every way. Even the soundtracks by Berry Gray are phenomenal and rival and often exceed scores you’d here in theatrical films.
I was just about born when this was first broadcast but these three are still MY Blue Peter presenters. I guess it goes to show how long this crew lasted.
If you look closely, you can see the strings that the puppeteers use to control John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Peter Purves.
...And Noakey's nearly get tangled as he gets out of FAB1!
I love the revolving number-plate!
Thereby assuring you total anonymity in your 22 foot long, pink six-wheeled Rolls Royce with transparent cabin! 😉🏆🇬🇧
I would imagine that the top speed of a 3 ton, 6 wheeled truck with 3 litres of 1960s horsepower would be much closer to 50 than 150.
...And even that would probably be on a generous downhill slope. :D
It's the real FAB 1 that could do 150mph, this would also be impossible to handle with 4 wheel steering.
@@dogwalker666 The Tyrrell P34 F1 racecar and the Panther Six sportscar handled fine with 4 wheel steering
@@MarkGelderland pre computer? I know the 8 wheel steer cranes are stuffed if the computer fails.
@@dogwalker666 It was based on a production vehicle chassis: A shortened tour-bus chassis in fact. It would have handled just fine.
I always thought Lady Penelope's car was extremely cool as a kid I had no idea someone actually made one.
Ya the same
Also FAB 1 in the 2004 Movie.
So sad they never went for a series after the film. I thought the did a very good job of bringing Thunderbirds to life, I like the car and the actors playing lady Penelope and Parker.
30 or so years ago me and a mate were travelling up the M1 at night in a pea souper of a fog. We pulled out to overtake a low loader with this stange looking pink thing on the back. As we pulled along side it became apparent the we were crawling past a full size replica of Lady P's pink roller.
I've never seen this epidode of BP before but I really hope the car we saw was this actual one.
You probably saw it being taken up to The Cars of the Stars museum in Keswick. Most of the collection is now in Miami.
That must be an exceptional highly tuned 3L engine to get a 3 tonne behemoth up to 150mph, it would never happen, especially back then in the early 60's. Loved Thunderbirds, and Stingray before it,...and Blue Peter.
Valerie was 'Fab' in her day !
Well I'm glad someone made one. But getting all that stuff up to 150mph with a 3 litre engine? Nah, that ain't going to happen. My favourite FAB 1 moment on the TV show was when it pulled away from rest one time, and the sound dubbed on was a perfect Morris Minor first gear whine!
0-150mph in 3 weeks!
I was thinking that. It was probably a Ford Essex V6, which was OK, but even in Capri that would have weighed half what FAB1 weighed, it didn't do 150 mph.
It'll take some braking to stop that.
@@Tmuk2 Downhill.
Best BP presenter team ever.
And I have seen that astonishing vehicle for real.
The opening of the car door sounded like a building site.
lol I remember those days they were telling the time before a broadcast , it was a different world 😂This is awesome thank you for sharing
That was fun, I watched Blue Peter and Thunderbirds as a kid. I'm sure changing the number plate on a unique pink coloured Rolls Royce will really throw a pursuer of the scent. The doors opening are powered by a jet engine.
I have sat in this car and been all round it. It was on display in a Ford dealership on Blackbird Hill, Neasden, London, NW10. It was 1970 ish and the dealership was Godfrey Davis. I was with my Dad and best pal. I remember the car’s handler said it had 2, Triumph Herald, double wishbone suspensions up front to give it 4 steering wheels, and a Morris Oxford rear axle. Not so sure about the engine but I think he said it had a Rover 3500 V8. I’m writing this at the very beginning of the vid, so I may be contradicted somewhere in the Vid. I’m positive about the suspension though, and I certainly sat in it. It was pink and had dummy machine-gun barrels up front.
I believe you, not only because of the finer details you have explained, but also because Godfrey Davis sounds like the name of a car dealership in 1970.
Thanks for sharing your memories.
Godfrey Davis, Yes remember them well,we got a mk2 Escort from there in 1975,was a great show room,still remember the showroom,large glass windows and back then a white Granada was on display on drive on ramps,still got the brochure from those days,best wishes.
the machine gun barrel should be allowed to shoot red beans at least, handy during road rage incidents
I knew Godfrey Davis as a car hire company, I didn’t know they sold cars as well.
@@AtheistOrphan, Yes the Godfrey Davis site in Neasden was a fair size,think part of the land was sold and that's where McDonalds is now,they gave me some old promotional posters,an orange Escort Sport mk2,,Red Cortina mk3,Blue Granada Ghia mk1,wish I still had the posters but anyhow have fond memories of them.
And us “kids” from America (almost 61 years old now) who STILL LOVE the Thunderbirds❤️‼️. This beast is a beautiful Frankenstein of a creation and the next custom license plate I get is going to read “FAB 1”‼️‼️. The Thunderbirds were and always will be a fantastic show made by incredibly talented Artists and Marionettists!
They used American accents to sell it to the Yank TV networks.
@@alexnelson9512 I don’t have a problem believing that. Although, as a born and bred Yank, I find the voice actors doing that a DEFINITE downgrade! I’d rather listen to you guys for the rest of my life‼️👍🏻🇬🇧
@@greeneyedwarlock882
It certainly helped to get around the language barrier.
Yes, at the time British product was hard to sell to the U.S. That is one of the reasons why the programme revolved around an American family with the token pucker English accent of Lady P thrown in, which was, I'm sure, how most Americans believed English people spoke (at that time). I think the Beatles helped to break that mold. After the so called "British Invasion" we could do no wrong.
I was 8 when Thunderbirds came to my tiny little black and white TV set standing in the corner of the front room in our terraced house back in 1965.
It was such a revelation. I can remember the pilot episode "Trapped In The Sky" vividly. For the next 12 months or so while the series was on air, the world of Thunderbirds dominated mine and my friends' lives.
I used to think "how did they do that?" when refineries were being blown up or the Hood's car burst into flames down an embankment after feeling the wrath of FAB 1..... and I am still asking that question today when I watch the same scenes again nearly 60 years later.
Thunderbirds remains to this day my favourite TV programme.
"Not as unusual as these doors..." Take THAT, Tesla Model X!
Imagine Lady Penelope says to Parker, while he’s driving her back to her residence, pull over for a minute, so I can nip out and get a bottle of milk from Tesco Express. But gives up, when she sees how long it takes for the electrical doors to open up. 😂
Lady Penelope was never one to forego style for convenience.
Saw this car at Heathfield Park Motor Museum early 70’s. 💕
I worked on one of these back in the sixties. It broke a half shaft most days.
Revolve the registration plate so it subtly blends in with the rest of the six-wheelled, bright pink, Rolls Royce cars driving around town.
The good old days before the internet and mobile phones t v off at midnight ❤🏴👍👍
Great car! And to think that this was 25 years before Blue Peter's famous Tracy Island make! FAB!
The doors are so quiet in operation, you barely know they’re opening.
I can remember watching this episode and being green with envy. FAB
Revolving numberplate if you're in a chase.... That'll throw them off 🤣
That's exactly what I was thinking 🤣🤣🤣
the chaser: "hey, wait! that's the wrong car!"
@@germanhernandezcarrera5257 🤣🤣🤣
When BP was BP, good old days best presenters ever.
The doors sounding like machine guns killed me.
Me too 😆
I remember seeing this beast at the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum in Keswick. In is now in the Orlando Auto Museum.
Now you mention it, I vaguely remember seeing it there, circa 2000 (I'd traipsed halfway up the country with a friend to see 'The A-Team' van and 'KITT' out of 'Knight Rider'!). Though I don't believe it was on display "properly" - possibly it was midway through renovation. We had got chatting with the museum owner who showed us around, including several cars that weren't currently on display, and have a feeling FAB1 was one of them. Didn't even have a digital camera back then, so no photos to remind us of the trip!!
@@pjgathergood6987 Thanks, It was amazing that all those cars were in not much more than a tin shed in Keswick, I tell people about it now, and I don't think they believe me. Maybe one day they will return from the UK?
@2:12 -- very handy in a chase, because once you've hidden those number plates, the huge pink six-wheeler thing just blends right in!
I remember being a member of international rescue I had the hat and the sticker on my chest😁👍
The maddest thing about FAB-1, is that Rolls Royce officially recognized it.
They were very supportive of the TV car. But they took a severe dislike to the full sized car. It was notoriously unreliable and RR made several attempts to buy it to destroy it. Eventually it was found by a dentist who collected film and TV vehicles. It was in a barn and in a very poor state. He bought it, renovated it and installed it in his "Cars of the Stars" museum in Keswick. He had one of the 5 Batmobiles used in the sixties TV series, the Munster's car, the Back to the Future De Lorean and KITT among many others.
Eventually the museum closed and the contents were sold to a car museum in Florida.
As I found out when I made a return there.
The museum had a sign in the window saying it had moved to Miami. Like those signs in a shop window saying "We've moved around the corner" worded as if you could just pop on the bus to Miami to visit it.
The central positioned driver is a perfect idea. Symmetrical visibility and control
McLaren thought so too.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Also now so does Tesla in its Semi truck
60's version of Top Gear! I waiting for the lads to pop out and get the Stig take it for a drive around the track!!
I think they meant 150 KM per hour. The 3 litre engine probably was an Austin C series straight 6 (about 120hp) the Ford Essex series V6 litre (118-140hp) or the Rover P5 straight 6 (115-131hp). Even in the 1.6 ton Rover P5, the car only had a top speed of 103 mph - so the chances of 150mph in a 3 ton aerodynamic brick is unlikely. (Maybe Brains tuned up the car).
I had a 2 ton Caddy back in the 1990's - 6 L.. It felt more like a big boat. However one night it was stolen just as I looked out the front room window. A huge cloud of tyre smoke and gone in an instant !.. I never thought it could move so fast !. ( it was found 2 weeks later with only a broken window & hot wired )
@@paulfogarty7724 My ideal anti theft device would be an automatic deploying hypodermic syringe that would inject nitric acid, through the seat, into the thief's testicles.
I saw the Parker driven model at Alton Towers in the 80s and that was pretty big!
Where is this beast now?
AFAIK it's in the Dezer Car Museum in Miami
@@kaledmasterme thanks 👍
Those were the days. Kids TV when kids were kids. I was 3 when this was Broadcast.
You can change the registration plate of a car that is a unique one off and pink not sure how useful that is
Bad guy 1: What car are we looking for anyways?
Bad guy 2: A 22 foot long pink Rolls-Royce, with a bubble canopy and six wheels. Ya can’t miss it.
Bad guy 1: What’s the registration plate though Knuckles?
Bad guy 2: F A B 1. That’s the number one, not O N E.
Bad guy 1: Geez Knuckles, you’re really thorough. You think of everything Pal! You seem to have it all covered, so I’ll ask; who owns this cockamamey ride, then?
Bad guy 2: We looked into that as well. It’s owned by some broad; name of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. She must be some Dame to be driving’ around in a car like that.
Bad guy 1: Look out Knuckles, I think it’s coming! Get the Bazooka ready. Oh, hang on - there’s some guy in a grey suit behind the wheel. Looks like that guy outta that band. You know, with those brothers. They fell out. What was it? ….
Bad guy 2: Oasis?
Bad guy 1: Yeah, that’s them Knuckles! It looks like that guy in Oasis. I’ll just put the binoculars on the licence plate. I R 1.
Bad guy 2: You sure about that?
Bad guy 1: See for yourself Knuckles - it’s not the car we’re after.
Bad guy 2: You’re right. Geez - what are the chances of two cars like that driving’ this way today? Guess I better put the bazooka away and keep on waitin’ then!
[cuts to car interior]
Parker: It h’appears that we have yet again h’evaded an h’attack m’Lady.
Lady P: Very good Parker. I think we can change the number plate back to normal now, don’t you? I much prefer FAB 1.
Parker: Yes m’Lady! My pleasure.
So when you're being chased and you want to blend in, just revolve the numberplate!
Nobody will find me in my 22ft long, 3 ton, 6 wheel bright pink Rolls with domed perspex roof!😲🤔😳😁
What a great piece of nostalgia. Brought a tear to my eye, my generation most certainly had the best of what this country offered at the time. Also isn’t it weird that some of the gizmos on the car are now part of every car on the road today.
A rear view camera already in 1968? Amazing!
And small enough to fit in the boot, it even left a little bit of room for some luggage.
Blimey this brings back memories, as a child I can remember this car being on display at a garage in Tottenham North London. My mum took me and my little brother up the road to see it in the double pram (remember those?). We were in awe. Well I’m 55 now and this is still double 😎. Interesting fact the original car I believe was based on a Bedford chassis, presume it’s in a museum somewhere.
If I recall correctly, the car (or if not, an identical replica) was still doing the rounds about a decade or so ago, appearing at various events and such. Not sure of it's current condition; if it is still about imagine it's well past overdue for a full renovation. But hope it's still out there somewhere.
I read somewhere years ago it was some kind of lorry chassis so bedford would tally with what I believe,I actually saw this vehicle in the ice stadium car park at Nottingham a long time ago,I was at school when I saw it,I'm 59 now but I suppose it's the kind of thing you don't forget especially if you're a fan
The cop: "I was chasing a 22 foot car with six wheels and Jetson dome. But this can't be the same car. The license plate number is different."
For Blue Peter viewers of my generation: John Noakes was like an amusing uncle, Peter Purves was the amiable one and Valerie Singleton was the prim and proper auntie Val.
Val Singleton was said to be a lesbian - interesting thought.
@@alexnelson9512 She was rumoured to be the lesbian lover of Joan Armatrading but denies this. I saw one interview when she said she had been sharing men's beds since 1959 or something, which ruined my virginal image of her, I can tell you, especially as I was not one of the lucky ones.
Just read on Wikipedia that she had a brief affair with Peter Purves.
@@pepwaverley2185
Why be so triggered?
@@craiggerrard5117
Maybe I'm wrong, but she was never married, so perhaps...
Lucky those number plates revolve, if you don't want the car identified and traced down, after a robbery, a drive by shooting or something.
Yes. This car could just blend in with all the traffic if you change the plates.
Love it. Great treat down memory lane. There was only 3 channels back then and I missed this when I was 6. Must have been watching ITV!
The noise coming from the electric doors😆😆
It's amazing!
Where is this car today?
Probably scrapped.
@@fantomandjupiterx864
I hope not but you're probably right.
In storage at the Dezer car museum in Miami!
I’m one of them kids…never seen that before. Your right they were the best and many many happy memories!
This thing was actually road legal. My father was taking me up to London one day and we saw it in front of us on (I think) the A30. We followed it for a couple of miles.
It really is a fab car, as a kid I sooo wanted one when I grew up... but can you imagine trying to park it at the supermarket? 😂
Perfect car for stealth I must say, specially if you need to get out in a hinch.
yea, nobody is gonna notice a six wheeled 22 foot long rolls royce :troll
I wonder if people 50 years from now will look back on our time and say we lived in paradise
I was more impressed by the wireless microphone of the host who gets out of the car.
FAB replica. 😊
That car must've felt like steering a boat.
door hatch opening sounds like jcb excavator in operation 😜👌
It was basically a cut-down coach like on The Italian Job.
@@fidelcatsro6948 A VERY old JCB excavator at that!
Fab by name and Fab by nature! Home Parker - to the BBC Television Centre!
So John - congratulations for climbing up Nelson's Column - now your next assignment is driving FAB 1 on the Killar to Pangi Road, via Kishtwar (India).
Good luck John and don't forget you'll get a Gold Blue Peter badge if you make it
I was just praying Peter wouldn't press the wrong button and set the machine guns off as Noaksey was walking in front of the car!! :)
The car of the future for sure.
The Car of the Future - Yesterday!
Neighbours would hate you with those doors opening and closing.
I'm glad reversing cameras got smaller with time.
Great stuff. But for me the proportions of the Dinky were much better. Lovely smell with the canopy slid back too as i recall :)
I saw this car in the mid 90s in the Cars of the Stars Museum in the Lake District - the coachwork was not up to RR standards - I love the revolving number plate, just in case you want to hide from the police - I saw a picture of it in one of the Classic Cars Mags about 10 years ago and it was in storage and looking very sorry.
Yes, the revolving number plate seems pretty pointless..
“There’s the massive, pink Rolls Royce with a Perspex dome that we’re all looking for! …Hang on, the reg plate doesn’t say FAB 1. So I’ll just let it go…”
I notice that while it has the Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament, it doesn't have the RR badge.
`Rolls-Royce were unimpressed by the car and made several attempts to buy it and have it destroyed': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB_1#Replica_cars
Just posted on another comment, but I can remember seeing it there too circa 1999/2000, though recall it wasn't on display "properly" at that time, possibly was "out back" for a some sort of minor renovation. For a car that was designed to tour on promotional events, it had had quite a hard life from wear and tear of adoring young fans. If memory serves (possibly not), the car has undergone a more fully renovation in more recent years, possibly from it's current private owner.
I had the Corgi version of this, The car was painted shocking pink. Mine had a rocket launcher behind the grille, which opened bottomhinged forwards to fire the rocket (which was functional). There is no way on earth a three litre engine, which in 1965 would have typically produced 140 hp, would propel a three ton car to 150 mph. That was a figment of Gerry Anderson's imagination. The contemporary 150 mph E-Type Jaguar had half the weight and almost twice the power.
I bought a junked one on EBay and restored it...took a while to get to Sydney ..
@@andrewpotter1206 Wow - did you manage to get the rockets to fire? The front one fired if you opened the RR-grille downwards and pressed down on the front suspension. The rocket was white with small flight fins and a red rubber nosecone. The rear lights were also small red (plastic) rockets about 2 cm long which fired (by spring loading as in a ballpoint pen) by pressing down on the rear suspension. Only then do you truly own a Lady Penelope Rolls-Royce!
@@1258-Eckhart yep you press down on the rear suspension to fire them I cleaned up the bits in the chassis and got them springy again kinda tricky sliding bits and springs ...but doable .
@@1258-Eckhart yep you press down on the rear suspension to fire them I cleaned up the bits in the chassis and got them springy again kinda tricky sliding bits and springs ...but doable .
I had one of those diecast toys too, it was made by Dinky Toys, which had the license for all the Gerry Anderson shows. I had a Spectrum Pusuit Vehicle, FAB 1, a SHADO Tank, a UFO Interceptor (green), Thunderbird 2 (with Thunderbird 4), and all 3 Space:1999 Eagles (green, white, and blue). Dinky had problems making these toys in the right colors.
Yeah, I bet that revolving license plate would come in real handy during a chase. You switch that plate and nobody would recognize that car. Brilliant idea.
Fantastic, just fantastic.
The fab 3 best presenters ever the show had
I had no idea they made a full sized Fab1!! I wonder if it still exists...
yes,it does
They made more than one:
ua-cam.com/video/UBB2Q3MLSVg/v-deo.html
Interesting to see that the car was permitted the application of a kneeling Spirit of Ecstasy mascot on the radiator grille, but not the R-R badge; both being registered trademarks of Rolls-Royce Motors at the time.
They didn't ask permission! RR actually tried to have it scrapped!
Sensational.
FAB Funderbirds Are Brill.
Got to love it!
It made my day.
Unusual this. The Corporation would normally never refer to something from one of the other channels.
That revolving reg number would make you totally immune driving through the ULEZ or over the Dartford crossing ....m'lady.
According to Wikipedia, the chassis and engine were by Bedford.
Well, I had no idea that anyone had built a full-scale FAB1 ! I am so glad I have now seen this clip. And built for only 11k UKP! Wonderful....
I believe it was built by Rolls-Royce apprentices using some original parts so it actually was a Rolls. Unlike the later version made for "That Movie".
@@AbelMcTalisker No. I don't know where you got that from, but the car is basically just a bus underneath the bodywork. Rolls Royce wanted nothing to do with it and have made attempts to have the car destroyed. Most of the relevant details of how the car came to exist are a simple google search away. Please don't spread nonsense around.
To the left on the dashboard was a speedometer from a Volkswagen Beetle. 😂
Amazing
Proper English accents. Unlike today.
Sure nailed the RR look all those years later.
3 litre engine in a 3 ton car. What a beast! Probably a Ford V6 Essex, so maybe 130hp.
apparently it's the Bus motor
my proton 1.6 making 120hp today!
Definitely more powerful if it can get to 150 mph
I think l missed this episode, l was a baby!
Back in the day, you could have a Purves surname on a kids show.
If anything, the rear-view camera is about the only thing that has come to fruition off-of FAB-1... Oh how I wish we were driving about in such splendid machines like Lady Penelope's ride, rather than the "bars of soap" foisted upon us all.
Maybe one of only two things that have come to fruition; televisions in cars aren't uncommon (or IMO, a needless luxury), and currently even more topical as, with self-driving cars supposedly on the increase, the highway code is being reconsidered to allow non-driving drivers(!) to watch TV as they travel.
If only we all had machine guns in our radiators
I saw that car on display at a garage in Chesham
is this car still around? im sure Jay Leno would be interested in buying it!! would make a great electric car conversion with all that space for even D sized alkaline batteries!!
It was restored by the Dentist who ran the “Cars of the Stars” museum in Keswick,Cumbria(what a place that was!) and when he packed that museum up and moved to the USA he took FAB 1 with him.It was actually built on a Bedford VAL coach chassis,like the one in “The Italian Job”,by Berkeley Cars in Biggleswade.
@@MrNellie65 i see.. i miss those old bug eyed bedford trucks, cant see them anymore
Homer invented that!
Can you imagine what it would feel like cruising down the motorway @ 150mph in that thing. LOL. At least if you get pulled over you can blame Parker.
正に夢の車。最高です。ありがとう。
hang on, just need to put on my ear muffs before you open the doors 🤣
Never realised just how impractical this car is!