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But he was running around Oxford solving middle class crime committed by middle class people. He didn't have to deal with slags.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I bet if they transferred him to the flying squad he would pick up the lingo double quick.
And he'd get a better motor, too.
Nah - my father used to drive a V8 Daimler, dark blue with wire-wheels. It had the same appearence as the Mk.II Jaguar Morse drove. It had good performance and it certainly turned heads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Take a Consul GT over the Mk2 Jag any day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Mk.II Jags were used by the police in the day.
Anyway, being in Oxford Morse would have probably said "Tace, captus es!". :)
The Sweeney started out with Consuls, but later it was the similar looking but higher spec Granadas with bigger more powerful engines (2.5 V6 and 2.8i. I always thought those cars were pretty badass, but I could only stretch to a 1.6L Mk.5 Cortina.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
When I was a kid, bloke across the road had a Morse-shape Jag. It was easily the nicest car on the street. And it looked huge, though when you're eight years old everything looks big, even Wagon Wheels.
Around that time my dad got a Jag - don't know what model, but it must have been pretty old, had 'running boards'. And I do remember him saying one time that he got 105mph out of it.
There weren't many safety consideration back then - one time when my dad was going round a corner, the passenger door flew open and spilled my younger brother onto the road (no seat belts back then). He just stopped, scooped up my brother and we continued our journey with my brother bawling his head off.
But weren't there Jags in the monochrome pictures used in the titles (along with dodgy 70s slip on shoes)? Did they never actually have them in the series?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
It's a Consul chasing a Mk2 Jag in the series 1 and 2 titles (the titles change for series 3).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Sweeny always in Fords, villains always in Jags. Which they'd end up crashing on waste ground or into some corrugated metal fencing due to a completely unforced error.
I think London was pretty much built of corrugated metal in those days. Whoever supplied it must have made millions.
The villains in the series 3 titles were in a mk2 Escort estate I think, not much of a getaway car?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Bit of a comedown from their Jags but then they were probably not doing so well after all the results John Thaw got.
I read somewhere that Jags were used as their bodies were 'tinny' and provided a safe crumple zone for TV stunt crashes.
Or they'd used up the supply of Jags on their local 'manor' by crashing them all onto waste ground for no real reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Mk2 Jags got hit up the arse a lot being one of the first cars to be equipped with disc brakes.
I believe white Jags became something of a rarity due to them all falling off a cliff in the 60s and 70s.
https://youtu.be/V4S7WDhMlDI?t=11
Watching TV with my grandkids (8 and 6 years old) the other day. They were mystified by the big boxes and the funny round thing. Time I started their HiFi education I think.
https://i.postimg.cc/VkRBkBkV/IMG_4129.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/htrbtbtY/IMG_4130.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/FHZgHgHC/IMG_4127.jpg
What crazy show is that?
I watch some terrible rubbish with my nieces and nephews when they were young but there was never any hi-fi or records in it.
Have they got the L/R orientation of the speakers correct? There's a risk the next generation will grow up with a total lack of knowledge of transducer setup if they watch trash like that. Having said that, they may have been experimenting to see if they could get a wider soundstage.
Is the listening position/seat the tyre? If so then yes; the mid and tweeters are too far apart.
pretty sure any cartoon character is capable of setting up his speakers they way he likes them.