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My first thoughts were 1960s Buick.
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I did wonder about a Crown. My 'girlfriend's' husband had one, terrifying machine. Large and comfortable but just awaiting an opportune moment to self-destruct.
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We will have to see whether it is some incarnation of a crown. Our next door neighbours for a time were a family from the Faroe Islands, and when they came over they bought two new cars from Belgium to take back to the Faroes. One of them was a Toyota Crown Super Saloon, the other a Mazda 616 both popular models in the Faroes but considerably cheaper in Belgium at the time.

I remember they got them "Zeibarted" straight away. Do people still Zeibart vehicles now :?:

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I guess that there are no other Antipodeans reading this topic, as the body shell (but not the grille and badging) are unmistakably an HQ Holden.

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But it is not a Holden, nor badged as any other GM brand.
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How about a Toyota Cressida? Wrong see next post! :)
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Cancel that last attempt I think I have it - a Mazda Road Pacer: :-D
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Yes, you got it, here is the remainder of my knowledge of this unicorn...
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xantia_v6 wrote: 19 Jan 2021, 19:49 Yes, you got it, here is the remainder of my knowledge of this unicorn...
Which Museum was that at Mike :?:

I did have a paddle around a couple of Videos of the Nelson WOW Museum but didn't spot it. There was a grey one At Nelson, and I found this forum post with a few more intimate under bonnet photos following the reveal.
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Jan 2021, 21:25 We could extract a car whatsthisthen from the video but this is all we get is this.
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If we did my first guess would be the XJS Convertible:
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mickthemaverick wrote: 21 Jan 2021, 10:48
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Jan 2021, 21:25 We could extract a car whatsthisthen from the video but this is all we get is this.

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If we did my first guess would be the XJS Convertible:
Could be a good shout, I don't know the answer. Maybe if Zel or Mike (Xantia V6) see it they could cast a forensic XJS eye over it. :-D

As an aside I did watch Cliff on Top Gear where he did confess personally to having a love of American cars but I would doubt if he supplied his own car for the video, but maybe would have liked an American one if he had a choice.

In another aside I find that Cliff's "fourth car" was up for Auction fairly recently, and at the same auction they also had one of Lulu's cars. Not too difficult a ferret to find that one out.

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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 21 Jan 2021, 12:38
mickthemaverick wrote: 21 Jan 2021, 10:48
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 19 Jan 2021, 21:25 We could extract a car whatsthisthen from the video but this is all we get is this.

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If we did my first guess would be the XJS Convertible:
Could be a good shout, I don't know the answer. Maybe if Zel or Mike (Xantia V6) see it they could cast a forensic XJS eye over it. :-D

As an aside I did watch Cliff on Top Gear where he did confess personally to having a love of American cars but I would doubt if he supplied his own car for the video, but maybe would have liked an American one if he had a choice.

In another aside I find that Cliff's "fourth car" was up for Auction fairly recently, and at the same auction they also had one of Lulu's cars. Not too difficult a ferret to find that one out.

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Unless they 'flipped' the video that is a right hand drive car.
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Hell Razor5543 wrote: 21 Jan 2021, 12:40 Unless they 'flipped' the video that is a right hand drive car.
As Captain Mainwaring and before him Captain Wagget in Whisky galore might have said
I was wondering who would be the first to spot that!
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I've never seen a Jag convertible with a quarter light. :)
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I am certain it was filmed in the UK. When he is walking around the water feature with the figure '8' there, is, momentarily, a red Morris Marina and a white Peugeot 504 estate car in the background (the Pug stood out for me, as we had one in the early 80s' and that was what I first learned to drive in (I couldn't complete the driving lessons/test for financial reasons)).
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Hell Razor5543 wrote: 21 Jan 2021, 12:54 I am certain it was filmed in the UK.
You are absolutely right. Milton Keynes to be precise. Several references on other threads this morning stemming from Zel's posting on the Pickled Egg Jukebox. There's even a book deposited at the Pickled Egg Library :-D

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