I remember driving those old transits. The steering wheel was the size of dustbin lid and parking into a small parking spot was like a work out in the gym
No matter if you drove a truck or van, it was always hard work and they were loud and stinking hot in the summer. And i even drove a few transits in the 80's but also some lorry's and trucks that didn't had steering power but a large bakelite wheel the size of luxemburg, and could only be used when the van/ lorry or truck was moving beçause at standing still you needed at least 2 men to turn the steeringwheel or hire arnold schwarzenegger or andré the giant!
aghhh the 70s and 80s.... a quick bit of armed robbery in London on a Friday morning then to heathrow with lots of time for the 4 pm to MArbella....... in the pub there by 9 pm... job done...
They'd be out of pocket now driving like that. Speed cameras,bus lanes,congestion charge,box junctions,traffic light cameras..I think those motors are exempt from the ulez charge though.
@@mandagee1536 All vehicles with historic tax class are exempt from the ULEZ. This tax class applies if a vehicle was built more than 40 years ago, with the date moving forward on a 40-year rolling system. This 40-year rolling age limit is set by the DVLA. This tax class excludes vehicles that are used commercially.
This was a 3 part series, The actor that played Charlie slater in eastenders was the policeman and the actor Ken Campbell was the lawyer. Very good drama.
That Ford was R reg. 1976. Everything else seemed to be pre 68 with bs k and white plates. The photographer cop was on a 65 mini with a pressed grill. I grew up in sarf London in the mid seventies and I was into bikes, i dont know why I didn’t notice the cars so much, wish I had done! I knew where to see a star fire, triumph 500 ,velocette LE s , commandos all while I was cycling around. Our next door neighbour had a Zephyr and max wall who lived over the road had a D reg 66 Mercedes Yes that max wall.
@@user-sw2lv3zp6o TR6P from honor oak motors. 650expolice trumpet . A good lot of Brit iron was still daily user, I remember catching up with an Ariel arrow on the south circular, a rare bird then. Puch two speed 50 then Honda 125 and 200 then the saint. I was 17 and still at school ffs
Sad fact but there were a lot of Ford PNOs in The Famous Five which was also filmed around the same time! Yes I used to love watching that when I was a kid!
I am not an expert on cars but I have a rough idea of what they looked like throughout the decades. That car at 1:17 really shook me with its design as it is something I would expect to see in a movie set in the late 80s or 90s. I wonder what model this is and how common were models with a similar design during the mid 70s.
@@malcolmcowan9554Its a Mk2 2.4 or 3.4 Jaguar. Ive had a 340 then a Daimler 250. The front grille is different. Daimler grilles are fluted whereas Jaguar has unfluted grille.
I'm sure that green mk4 Cortina S turned up in The Professionals and The Sweeney. Another Ford "press fleet" car that spent it's early life with the accelerator pressed into the carpet...
Love the old motors. I had mk1 escort. Capris cortinas. Better than the featureless car’s get now. Technology was shit but the fun driving them and working on them urself. Cud even change windshield urself
Cars were great back then because they weren't full of technology. All mechanical and probably a lot more reliable than todays computer filled fashion statements. Cars are a joke these days. People are obsessed with image and think a badge on the front impresses everyone.
+John McMahon I remember there were a few very serious cases of Armed robbery in London in those days but they are not as threatening as the IRA bombings at tube stations.
The good old days . Armed blaggers , safe blowers . the geli man , ( most respected ) pavement jobs , smash & grab , long firms . fraudsters , fences , hoisters etc . All gone RIP .
These 70's sets would be impossible to recreate today as most of those vehicles have rusted away. When was the last time you saw a Sherpa on the road ?
My uncle Jonny had he’s work van mini estate he hand painted it white. And he would talk to it like it was a spaceship lights gamma rays back in 87 Walthamstow.
I like how the chap in the Jag started his engine and then waited for them to come and then he was dragged out his car.. a different class of criminal then possibly
Well...that was in the late 70s early 80s..l suppose. Now all those cars are collectable...and have a value.. Even a rare cortina estate.. I had a transit like that..Great vans How times have changed.. No local charging stations for electric vehicles..no signs saying 'Private Parking' you may be clamped.. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
Glorifying crime are you? But when a "foreign" person does a crime you're all quick to label their whole group as the culprits of the problems of modern day Britain and how quiet and peaceful it was before they came
Ah that was around 1978-79 from Cortina R Reg pulled up in front of breakers yard i’d say that car with a-year-old I saw Pete bill about three years ago in Tottenham seven sisters Road N15 cafeteria he was a lovely guy real old school. Listen great time for bed then 70s and 80s it’s a shame there wasn’t a longer video of this
great piece of film :-) but can honestly say that I've never seen this before , don't even know what it's called , or even when it was filmed . had to watch it twice though , that little MK1 Tina estate rare as hens teeth . really enjoyed it , better than the Sweeney !
The byword on old Ford's was to "savage" it e.g. slap a 3.0 Essex in there which could fit everything except the Fiesta (I actually rear engined a Fiesta MK1 van back in the eighties and nigh on killed me and me mate as the main prop going to a Sierra diff wasn't welded too good and it became a hammer of death as mate and I hastily pegged it out the motor and it destroyed itself taking out the v6 and everything else) MK1 Cortina's were very lively with a Essex, the Met used MK1 and MK2 Transit's with Essex's married to a Jag diff for the SPG, a shame they dropped it all in favour of the Cologne. Was a chap living near Sundridge Park station in Bromley who had one of the few "official" MK2 Cortina estate savages, cornering was a bit hairy but straight line off the clock and room on the pedal, in later years he put Cossie engines into MK2 and MK3 Transits showing them off at Bromley pageant.
Proper old bill. Chasing crimes with shooters.. unarmed" fearless 🤣 70s motor's bonus. Named most of em. That metalic Green mk 4 cortina still looks Tasty"
The film was made between June 1976 June 1977. How did I know that? Correct answers on a postcard please. I did not need to Google it. The answer is in the video.
Back when Britain still had a car industry worthy of supplying motors good enough for armed blag getaways. Marvellous.
And petrol was three gallons for £!!
U wouldn't use a Morris marina as a getaway car 😂
Back in the day when cars looked like the kind of vehicles you would like to drive.
Got my first car 3 months ago. its an '83 Cortina. I refuse to get a new car. ever.
@@ogorekkiszony7236 smart buy if you bought a rust free example. with No ved or mot and cheap insurance, you are saving lots of money.
Yes, I totally agree....
Those was the cars that actually, show the character of the owner.
Beautiful. ..just beautiful 💙👍💯
Some great cars back then I wasn't even born but they are beautiful
Interesting how much Ford stuff was on UK roads back then. That Cortina is a beauty.
I remember driving those old transits. The steering wheel was the size of dustbin lid and parking into a small parking spot was like a work out in the gym
No matter if you drove a truck or van, it was always hard work and they were loud and stinking hot in the summer.
And i even drove a few transits in the 80's but also some lorry's and trucks that didn't had steering power but
a large bakelite wheel the size of luxemburg, and could only be used when the van/ lorry or truck was moving beçause at standing
still you needed at least 2 men to turn the steeringwheel or hire arnold schwarzenegger or andré the giant!
YEP I KNOW !
I loved lived in those old transits , no power steering back then 😂
Felt like the king of cool, cruising in the tranny with the sliding door open
Drove an old Luton that wouldn't go above 40mph.
aghhh the 70s and 80s.... a quick bit of armed robbery in London on a Friday morning then to heathrow with lots of time for the 4 pm to MArbella....... in the pub there by 9 pm... job done...
I always wondered how Pete Beale could only manage on a market stall....
Hahaha I came on to say similar
Haha!
He used "the old banana in the pocket" stick up
It's a side line treacle!
When England was still great and the cars where great fun.
Britain was never great. They stole and colonised everyone. Shame on you.
And armed blaggers could go about their trade .Today nuffink.
Yeah nothing says great like endless industrial disputes and strikes.
Yep before the Kalergi Plan and resettlement programme went into affect.
@@smart_azz104bollocks to strikes it was still a better place to live than anywhere else
They'd be out of pocket now driving like that. Speed cameras,bus lanes,congestion charge,box junctions,traffic light cameras..I think those motors are exempt from the ulez charge though.
😩🤣👌
@@mandagee1536 All vehicles with historic tax class are exempt from the ULEZ. This tax class applies if a vehicle was built more than 40 years ago, with the date moving forward on a 40-year rolling system. This 40-year rolling age limit is set by the DVLA. This tax class excludes vehicles that are used commercially.
Beautiful Classic Cars ❤
Nice of the driver of the red Jag to wait for them all to reach him…
I played "Spot the foreign car." They were well & truely outnumbered!
This was a 3 part series, The actor that played Charlie slater in eastenders was the policeman and the actor Ken Campbell was the lawyer. Very good drama.
London looked so worn-out and grimy back then - love it! 👍
That Ford was R reg. 1976. Everything else seemed to be pre 68 with bs k and white plates. The photographer cop was on a 65 mini with a pressed grill. I grew up in sarf London in the mid seventies and I was into bikes, i dont know why I didn’t notice the cars so much, wish I had done!
I knew where to see a star fire, triumph 500 ,velocette LE s , commandos all while I was cycling around. Our next door neighbour had a Zephyr and max wall who lived over the road had a D reg 66 Mercedes Yes that max wall.
Early spring 1977, my guess by the trees and vegetation, late April 1977
@@highdownmartin Which bikes did you have back then?
@@user-sw2lv3zp6o TR6P from honor oak motors. 650expolice trumpet . A good lot of Brit iron was still daily user, I remember catching up with an Ariel arrow on the south circular, a rare bird then. Puch two speed 50 then Honda 125 and 200 then the saint. I was 17 and still at school ffs
@@highdownmartin I had a CD175.
back when cars were made of Steel & Chrome!
For a year, then it was rust and chrome!
And warranties were only a year if you were lucky!
And filler
No air bags, seat belt optional, that's how I broke my jaw... bent a cortina steering wheel in half with my face.
@@robwalker7575 hope you were able to either repair or replace the steering wheel?
Those old transits had the best front indicators ever, you could actually see them!
The green Cortina was a Ford media pool loan car. PNO's were widely used in The Professionals. Ford supplied to Thames/LWT/Euston.
Hence the "...HK" plates.
Product placement
Sad fact but there were a lot of Ford PNOs in The Famous Five which was also filmed around the same time! Yes I used to love watching that when I was a kid!
Those lovely old cars.
Good acting, pretty realistic too 👍
What a nostalgia trip. 1976 at a guess - R reg was the newest I could make out.
Tax disc in the mini was expiring June 77 so you’re about right 👌
Yes that MK4 Cortina was the newest I saw....love seeing the old motors.
I am not an expert on cars but I have a rough idea of what they looked like throughout the decades.
That car at 1:17 really shook me with its design as it is something I would expect to see in a movie set in the late 80s or 90s.
I wonder what model this is and how common were models with a similar design during the mid 70s.
Good old days,no cctv and slow cop cars
Paintbrush 1962 😂
The Triumph 2.5 PI was no slouch, although probably no match for the XJ6.
A very young looking John Bardon (later "EASTENDERS") playing the scrapyard owner!
Bleedy hell yeah Pete Beale.
Young Paul Crouch who played Ted Hill
It has to England when you commit a robbery using cookers.
9276CR on the white Mk2 Jaguar still on DVLA but off road since 2013. Hope its still around
It's a daimler mk2 v8
@@malcolmcowan9554Its a Mk2 2.4 or 3.4 Jaguar. Ive had a 340 then a Daimler 250. The front grille is different. Daimler grilles are fluted whereas Jaguar has unfluted grille.
I'm sure that green mk4 Cortina S turned up in The Professionals and The Sweeney. Another Ford "press fleet" car that spent it's early life with the accelerator pressed into the carpet...
Looked like it had a repainted front wing.
Blimey classic car fest, shame it cut off though wanted to see the xj6 being thrown around. Great clip poster
the scene ends there, unfortunately
ruclips.net/video/b9No82Znlo0/видео.html.
It's nice to see the old cars
Love the old motors. I had mk1 escort. Capris cortinas. Better than the featureless car’s get now. Technology was shit but the fun driving them and working on them urself. Cud even change windshield urself
Good days when England was England !!!
Cars were great back then because they weren't full of technology. All mechanical and probably a lot more reliable than todays computer filled fashion statements. Cars are a joke these days. People are obsessed with image and think a badge on the front impresses everyone.
@@oddities-whatnot yo spot on I have a photo of my old escort xr3 immaculate condition in red wish I could show it 👍
It's called a "windscreen".
You got Capris and Cortinas right then put an apostrophe in cars!
No iphone , no internet , no DVD , not even CDs , email , Facebook in those days. Armed robbery actions seems to be much slower.
+Lar M Yes and Armed robbery was much, much easier.
+John McMahon I remember there were a few very serious cases of Armed robbery in London in those days but they are not as threatening as the IRA bombings at tube stations.
+Lar M No, I agree, but what has IRA bombings got to do with Armed robbery, or this video for that matter?
+Nige Robinson I think the security is not suppose to say anything !
No fkn cctv everywhere, was piece piss.
all my dream cars in one video
"Cut this one up a bit lively!" That scrapyard will be a block of yuppie flats now !
Yep and the only thing they will be “cutting up “is a pile of sniff!
The good old days . Armed blaggers , safe blowers . the geli man , ( most respected ) pavement jobs , smash & grab , long firms . fraudsters , fences , hoisters etc . All gone RIP .
Technology has wiped everything
not an Audi or BMW in sight
+David Sirett Mercedes and Rose Royce. Volkswagan and Vovo.
+Lar M
Rose Royce were a naff soul/funk band. Rolls Royce is a posh car
+Nige Robinson I like it !
David Sirett There's a Ford Transit.
War Vandal I wouldn't say naff, they made some great songs
Times were so different then. Now it's all about online theft.
This is from Law & Order. a tv series from 1978. It was superb. Better than The Sweeney & The Professionals.
Awight Tweacle
These 70's sets would be impossible to recreate today as most of those vehicles have rusted away. When was the last time you saw a Sherpa on the road ?
yesterday
My next door fruit and veg shop has one that they use everyday to pick up stock....👍
😅😅
I live in the Himalayas so probably most days.
I was driving my 1972 Hillman Avenger to the shops just today. But it would be hard and expensive to try to recreate such a scene today.
My uncle Jonny had he’s work van mini estate he hand painted it white. And he would talk to it like it was a spaceship lights gamma rays back in 87 Walthamstow.
Ah the good old days when police would run towards a bloke with a massive sawn off
sawn offs, as their name suggests are not massive
Nowadays they get their tits iut on only fans
@@Aut0five underrated reply 😊
@@Aut0five no but they offload a ton of flak
the good old days . when all u needed was some bottle and a sawn off .
Is that Pete Beale from EastEnders driving the Jag
@@allthekingshorses7178 yea
@@allthekingshorses7178 They didn’t get very far after this. He filled it up with treacle
And no security camera
@@bluegtturbo lol right my friend
See how many of those early actors went on to do much bigger stuff?
I like how the chap in the Jag started his engine and then waited for them to come and then he was dragged out his car.. a different class of criminal then possibly
4:03 wow that’s a Beautiful land rover series 1 🤩
Austin Gypsy
@@timtec3000 it’s a lights behind the grill ?landrover series one 80” probably 1600 cc engine pre53. Worth around 50 k today ffs.
Gf newmans law and order 1978...I got the dvd
Proper 70s.
I think this is from the law & order 1978 TV series not sure.
Love the cars.
Some Right old classic villain cars.
Well...that was in the late 70s early 80s..l suppose.
Now all those cars are collectable...and have a value..
Even a rare cortina estate..
I had a transit like that..Great vans
How times have changed..
No local charging stations for electric vehicles..no signs saying 'Private Parking' you may be clamped..
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
the 4 episodes of this TV series will be repeated back to back on wed 10/6/2024 on bbc 4 from 10.15pm (with a preview at 10pm)
3.20 Valetta Road, turning into Warple Way
6.17 Stanley Gardens
7.08 Warple Way
8.10 Cobbold Road
In the 70's you weren't a bona fide villain unless you had owned or stolen at least one Mk2 or XJ6 Jag!
Zarathrustrasit
Glorifying crime are you? But when a "foreign" person does a crime you're all quick to label their whole group as the culprits of the problems of modern day Britain and how quiet and peaceful it was before they came
@@tsmith4130 we don't need foreigners over here commiting crime . Don t you think we have enough anyway.
Both!
I would be interested to know what film 🎥 this clip is from
2:15 That was my first-ever car, bought it second-hand back in 1974.
Mine had round headlamps, though, not the newly-fangled rectangular ones.
That was the 74 model right there
Where are Body and Doyle when you need them?? :-)
Itv3
@@errolkim1334 🤣
Ah that was around 1978-79 from Cortina R Reg pulled up in front of breakers yard i’d say that car with a-year-old I saw Pete bill about three years ago in Tottenham seven sisters Road N15 cafeteria he was a lovely guy real old school. Listen great time for bed then 70s and 80s it’s a shame there wasn’t a longer video of this
Love the keystone cops trying to halt a jag with their fingernails. Call in Bodie and Doyle.
The date of liability for the Jaguar Mk2 at the start was 2013 so it probably still exists
Jaguar car was the favourite getaway car and the transit van for robbers in the 1960s70s
Bernard Swaine forget the rs2000's and lotus escorts & cortinas did we ??
Anyone know where I can watch all episodes? Looked everywhere
Great old Jag that probably 4,2 engine fantastic ride .
Thanks for sharing
Lovely green cortina mk4 S.. Ford press fleet car too..
All this really needs is Big Vern from Viz magazine 🤯
Get dahhn ernie he's got a piece🤣
You won't take me alive you slaaaag
The great G.F. Newman. If you don't know it, check out his The Corrupted on BBC Sounds.
great piece of film :-) but can honestly say that I've never seen this before , don't even know what it's called , or even when it was filmed . had to watch it twice though , that little MK1 Tina estate rare as hens teeth . really enjoyed it , better than the Sweeney !
GF Newman's Law and order 1978 I got the dvd
But, hens don't have teeth!
@@andrewdeans3686 hence the phrase. Rocking horses don't shit either.
Rather then than now , wtf has happened to London it’s scum
Well it's all SREGGIN now
Brilliant movie clip and I’ve got most of these old cars in my yard today
Any for sale?
@@bond0666 we break old classic cars up
@@Mr-millen you do parts?, you have a website?
@@bond0666 M25 classic cars are us
A few bob's worth of motors there had a few myself.
The byword on old Ford's was to "savage" it e.g. slap a 3.0 Essex in there which could fit everything except the Fiesta (I actually rear engined a Fiesta MK1 van back in the eighties and nigh on killed me and me mate as the main prop going to a Sierra diff wasn't welded too good and it became a hammer of death as mate and I hastily pegged it out the motor and it destroyed itself taking out the v6 and everything else) MK1 Cortina's were very lively with a Essex, the Met used MK1 and MK2 Transit's with Essex's married to a Jag diff for the SPG, a shame they dropped it all in favour of the Cologne. Was a chap living near Sundridge Park station in Bromley who had one of the few "official" MK2 Cortina estate savages, cornering was a bit hairy but straight line off the clock and room on the pedal, in later years he put Cossie engines into MK2 and MK3 Transits showing them off at Bromley pageant.
what film or series was this from?
I have a 1970 Mk4 Ford Zodiac, I keep in touch with the bloke who owned it in the 80s. Been in a police chase or two apparently....
The infamous Romford gas board blag, I think.
my dad all these ,ars then we bought a, rover p5b ,oupe, fantasi, vehi,le . and 2.5 PI was a fast motor .
I love the revving engines and the lack of speed........lol
I love seeing all the old cars that are classic cars now. Great film clip . Anyone know what film it’s from
Just started watching this,I would hazard a guess at it being from the Sweeny.brilliant TV.
its a TV series from 1978 "Law & Order: A villains tale"
WHX 340G same Jag used by the robbers in the Sweeney movie 1977
i need to jo this show can i buy it on dvd
Anybody know what this is from?
Bloody ell ! Pete Beal in this one, Dirty Den making a getaway in a nicked mk1 Capri in another clip.. What ever next !!
Christian Vinall and Carol Jacksons Dad in the scrapyard
ya she was I think in the late 90s
They were serious actors until they got on the soapbox.
A 70s episode of eastenders
Cortina estate is extinct like the dinosaur
Yellow Triumph Dolomite Sprint in the background- drove one of those.. ;)
Ohhh how i miss the blue MK3 Cortina i once thought was crap
Any self respecting armed robber from the '70's would have a nicked Jag as a getaway car from the offset........
what film is this from
There wasn't so much traffic on the roads back then....
Good olds days to look back at, strange thing is if we didn't have RUclips we'd be shagged.😂
The definition of gritty, the whole city looks so desolate.
Like the way they use the cooker 😂😃
Old school ‘ram raiding’ 😂
@@JohnJohn-rh6ib lmao
Proper Old Skool Robbery
Lovely dolly sprint
Circa 1977 by my dating process (saw a MkIV Cortina and a Fiesta...none later.)
Watch out Sarg, he's got a shooter!
Its always a blue Transit used by robbers
bring back points and condensers, EMS are a pain in the arse when they go wrong !
Who locks the getaway car? Hahahaha.
I thought the same. Also who would choose a MK1 Cortina estate as a getaway car? The Transit they decanted from would have just as quick.
Proper old bill. Chasing crimes with shooters.. unarmed" fearless 🤣 70s motor's bonus. Named most of em. That metalic Green mk 4 cortina still looks Tasty"
PS: *What year from the 70s was this from?*
Tax discs on motors say 77
The film was made between June 1976 June 1977. How did I know that? Correct answers on a postcard please. I did not need to Google it. The answer is in the video.
kevin higgins Too easy Kev, 😉
John McMahon 👏
kevin higgins Kevin I’ll remove the answer to see if anyone else gets it.
John McMahon 👍
you googled it.
What is this show/film?
Law and Order 2 -The Villains Tale , and it is on youtube
Its always the jag
This looks so familiar but I can't think for the bloody life of me what show or was ? I remember that mk1 cortina estate very well
Law & Order: The Villains Tale (1978)
Thats it !...embarrassingly Ive just found the DVD on my shelf .....whoops
Did everyone spot Del Boy’s motor in the opening scene?
Please,can you tell me the title of the film,is it available on DVD????
Izmir Übel its called Law & Order a uk tv series from 1978.
Thank you!!! I will look if it is available on DVD!!!!
Izmir Übel its available on amazom. i just bought on dvd
I can't find it there :-( only the new crime - series law and order from 2015.Not the old english series from 78 :-(
I just found it on the imdb app it goes by the name of "GF Newman's law and order" a 4 part miniseries from 1978. Look it up on imdb.com.
The trusty Transit !