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€ ™ s Face the Star: Famous Film and TV Motors. Part 1

Direct Sureterm the UKA € ™ s more big classic car insurance and we know instantly when a car has appeared in a popular TV or movies as research for classic car insurance that particular model shoot through the roof.

So hereâ € ™ s first installment of our guide to the most famous TV and movie cars on the planet. Weâ € ™ ve even included a van â € "see if you can guess what program thatâ € ™ s!

TV Programme: Ashes to Ashes
Car: Audi UR quattro:

While the star of the show Gene Hunt is a police detective in a fictional TV series in the 1980th € ™ s Britain, his bright red Audi UR quattro play more a support role.

The car jumped into real life in 1980 and with 4WD and a lot of magic amazing other German car-making packaging in it, the car became in an instant cult classic.

Brilliant on the road, brilliant on the rally scene. And now, thanks in great demand to Gene Hunt. If you can lay your hands on one â € "do it. Easy and economical to secure.

Our star rating: 4 stars

TV: UK
Car: Alvis TE21

Fruity Stephen Fry old actress plays a lawyer east of England in this gentle comedy drama and sneaks around Norfolk in a â Fabulous Alvis TE21 Drophead € "provoking an interest in classic cars of a whole new generation.

Alvis is a weird brand. The best part of 50 years from 1920, the Coventry-based firm produced cars that stands out for superior quality, great handling and a sporty, elegant character. The TE21 model arrived at the end of 1963 - and a stiff suspension that could change a bit.

The TE21 was pretty heavy yet managed a very respectable top speed of 120 mph and was available with automatic transmission or a five-speed manual gearbox. Itâ € ™ sa very, very classic style â € "and a restored version could easily go back £ 100,000.

Our Category: 2 stars

TV Programme: The Sweeney
Car: Mk1 Ford Consul GT

When ITV in the UK The Sweeney in the early detection time, the program marked a new concept in police programs. Previously fed a diet of boring old € ™ â € ~ bobbiesâ as Z-Dixon, automobiles and Dock Green, The Sweeney had fast cars, swearing, sex scenes, alcohol and extreme violence.

And he did household names of the main characters Reagan and Carter. In the series of 1 and 2, the mainstay of the crew was a copper brown CID Mk1 Ford Consul GT, reg NHK 295M â € "although in the later series, Ford Grenades were the norm.

The Consul had front bucket seats as standard, a floor-mounted central control equipment change Remote and speedometer, fuel and temperature all had black non-reflective mark.

Consul â € ~ Pack L offered special seats, carpet loop pile of color introduced into the interior, vanity mirror, heated rear screen, clock and trip mileage recorder (not that Sweeney bother with anything in of the law!). No surprises then, that they went for the GT pack option, which included most V6 3.0 â € "capable of 0-60mph in 9 seconds.

Our Stars: 2 stars

TV Programme: Inspector Morse
Car: 1960 Jaguar Mk II

In the novels of Colin Dexter, Inspector cars temper copper Morse was a classic Lancia, but ITV used a Jaguar MK II 2.4 from the beginning of the television series. In fact, the Carmen red Jag became so iconic that new editions of the earlier novels have been changed to Morse's car is a Jaguar!
The Jaguar Mark II â € ~ a compact four-door saloon € ™ was introduced in October 1959, at a price of only? 1534.00 and was made until 1967. Morse Jaguar is a 2.4-liter model with motor overload 2483 cc Twin Cam 6 cylinder 120 hp da.
Itâ € ™ s a bit slow for TV coppers, only capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 17.3 seconds with a top speed 96.3 mph, but Morse didnâ € ™ t exactly need to burn around the university city of Oxford. Jaguar made almost 84,000 Mk11s, 25,070 of Morseâ 2.4 € ™ s variation.

Our star rating: 3 stars

TV program: James Bond films
Car: Aston Martin DB5

Spy 007A € ™ s love of fast cars is evident throughout the original Ian Fleming novels and when they finally made the silver screen car lovers everywhere drooled over his gorgeous DB5 .

The 1963 DB5 is famous be the first and most recognized Bond car, with in particular: Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and Casino Royale, while also made appearances as a background to The World Is Not Enough and Diamonds Are Forever.
The DB5's engine had been enlarged from the previous DB4â € ™ s 3.7L to 4.0L, while the addition of a five-speed transmission and three SU carburetors enabled the car to pull 282hp and propel to 141 mph (238 km / h).
Standard equipment on the DB5 included reclining seats, pile carpets, electric windows and a fire extinguisher. All models had 4 seats and 2 doors. The United Kingdom recommended list price of the sports saloon (coupe) in December 1963 was? 4248 including sales tax, the convertible was? 4562.

Our star: 5 stars

TV Programme: Dukes of Hazzard
By car: 1969 Dodge Charger

testosterone-filled young to remember a couple of things about the Dukes Hazzard â € "Catherine Bacha € ™ s endless legs (and bum PERT in spray-on jeans) and the General Lee car.

The General Lee was a 1969 Dodge Charger with a 426 Hemi in every season of success (except season two, where he had a 440 Magnum engine.) It is also said that is the path and model tracks.

Bright orange with a Confederate flag painted on the roof, and the â € ~ € ™ Leea General and the number of â € ~ 01A € ™ words in each door, face € ™ s name refers to the American Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

The show also used 1968 Chargers since the start (which shared mostly the same sheet metal) by changing the grill and taillights style 1969 model year and narrow 68-round side marker lights, which were rectangular in the year '69 model.

Our star rating: 3 stars

TV Programme: Starsky and Hutch
Car: Ford Torino

We love the 1970th € ™ s. long hair, disco music, â € thick sweaters "And all this in only one television series. Los Angeles cops Starsky and Hutch fought villains in a two-door Ford Torino, which was red with a large white vector band.

He was nicknamed the Striped Tomato by Hutch but the term did not come from the writers seriesâ € ™ - comment came from a real life the actor Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) made. The standard Torino was pretty dull, so producers Jazzed with a vector of large white stripes, the 5-slot alloys and larger rear tires. air springs are added to give the car an aggressive rake and it worked â € "especially for Ford, who built replicas 1000 of Starsky and Hutch "car in the spring of 1976.

The â € ~ Starsky and Hutch replica € ™ is available with all engines Torino, and the limited production package was essentially a special paint option with the deluxe bumper group and two mirrors with body-color sport as mandatory options. Seat colors were limited to white or black and available with all fabrics and seating options.

Our Category: 2 stars

Program TV: Knight Rider
Car: 1982 Pontiac Trans Am

Forget Baywatch â € "bubble haired David â € ~ The HOFA € ™ Hasselhoff shot to fame first Knight Rider â € "a crazy TV series that ran from 1982 to 1986 that included KITT, a car cool devices equipped with speech.
As expected, given its low-budget cast, KITT became the star of the show, but then it was a gleaming black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am The car oozed sex appeal and sparked a huge interest in American Classics, which still exists today.
By the way, means  € ~ KITT Knight Industries Two Thousand € ™ an eponym of its lid removed rare-with-technology creators to combat crime.

Our Category: 3 stars

TV: The first team
Car: The GMC truck

Da-da-da, daddy, da. Da, Dad, da, da, dadada, da. Itâ € ™ s hard to believe any TV program, especially in Hollywood, could make vans sexy â € "but first team did it in bucket loads.

The black and metallic gray GMC van used by the A-Team â € "a crazy collection of crime-fighting misfits â € "had a characteristic red stripe, black and red wheels, roof spoiler, and instantly became an icon.

The truck is a 1983 G series, which has been heavily customized by the props department of Universal Studios. The engine is a 350 cid with minor modifications (mainly carbohydrates and exhaust system), while the wheels are turbine style 15 "painted black with red accents.

Other modifications include - Conversion of quad headlights, full front brush, fog / driving lights, exterior sun visors, exhaust tips of four squares (each side front wheel rear), and custom rear spoiler. Interior was custom bucket seats white shag rug and custom box on the back.

Also had husky air shocks in the rear to improve handling, which was poor and underpowered. In fact, the scenes where burning was done by spraying bleach the front and rear tires which creates billowing gray smoke.

Our Stars: 2 stars.

TV Program: "Back to the Future (film)
By car: De Lorean DMC-12

Look, make no bones about it, apart from James Bonda € ™ s DB5 this is the TV and the car's iconic film. It caught the eye in real life and that caught the attention on the screen.

The De Lorean DMC-12 became a time machine to "Return the future, but was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and manufactured for real in 1981 by the De Lorean Motor Company, in Northern Ireland. The 2-door coupe had a 2.8 L (2849 cc), V6 engine and is available in 5-speed manual or 3 speed automatic transmission.

He was the only model ever produced by the company and told with gull-wing doors fiberglass with a â € ~ € ™ underbody, which non-structural brushed stainless steel panels are fixed.

The first prototype appeared in March 1976 and officially started production in 1981 (with the first DMC-12 out of the production line on January 21) in the DMC factory in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. During its production, several aspects of the car were changed, as the style of hood, wheels and interior.

About nine thousand DMC-12 were made before production stopped in late 1982.

Our stars: 5 stars

The TV show: â € Herbie Love Buga ~ € ™
Car: 1963 Volkswagen Beetle convertible sedan.

Peace and love, man. With the amount of € ™ â € ~ dropped acid in the atmosphere of the late hippified 60, weren € ™ t all that surprised when a film starring a VW beetle appeared humanized.

Herbie The Love Bug was a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle convertible sedan painted in Volkswagen L87 deluxe pearl white. The interior is usually matching a target Herbie but inside was painted a special non-gray-reflexive, so that the camera and does not reflect studio lights.

In this original film 1968 Herbieâ € ™ s lines differ from the later movies - the stripes do not cover the valances or louvers of the car and the blue is a lighter shade. In addition, Herbie has body-color running boards, while in the later films the running boards are standard black.

Our Stars: 2 stars

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John Kelly is the website editor at Sureterm Direct, the UK’s largest classic car insurance company.

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