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◊ 2005-11-30 20:38
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1965 AC 428 Spider. This is a "master piece" as only 20 AC 428 Spiders were built in Torino by Pietro Frua. And this is the Spider number #01. Car driven by Steed (Patrick Macnee) in the beginning, by Tara King (Linda Thorson) afterwards (episodes from 1968 and 1969). -- Last edit: 2005-11-30 20:49:12 |
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◊ 2005-11-30 21:17
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Maybe you should add "Spider" to complete the name/model of the car as there were AC 428 Coupés as well (registered as AC 428 "tout court"). |
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◊ 2005-11-30 21:19
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Maybe, yes .gif ";)") |
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◊ 2006-03-07 14:37
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I think it's a '66 |
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◊ 2006-03-20 20:41
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Steed only drives it once and then it's given to Tara. |
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◊ 2006-04-08 22:14
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It's a '66 it says so on a lot of Avengers websites |
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◊ 2006-06-05 15:58
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http://www.pietro-frua.de/1965_ac.htm http://www.pietro-frua.de/1965_ac01.htm Sorry, it's in german... but quite interesting though |
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◊ 2006-07-19 17:07
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Keith Moon (The Who drummer) owned one, can't remember whether it was a fixed head or not. Prettier I think than its cousin the Mas. Mistral |
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◊ 2006-08-06 01:09
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in eps 7.06     |
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◊ 2006-10-09 12:52
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in eps 7.26* |
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◊ 2007-01-04 23:59
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This particular car was the sole prototype built by Frua in Turin and then became the factory demonstrator for AC Cars. Carrying the chassis number CF1, it made its debut at the 1965 Motor Show in London and registered shortly thereafter with the Surrey number LPH800D. It saw very active service in a variety of roles including brochure photography car, test mule and (as the then only available) road test car, with an excellent review in the December 1966 edition of 'Car' magazine, including a moody cover shot. Very early on, it was initially marketed as an AC 427, but subsequent cars became 428's, after the capacity of the Ford engine then fitted as standard to all sporting AC's, as the 427 'side oiler' was significantly more expensive to source from Dearborn, AC were notorious for occasionally fitting these cheaper 'Police Interceptor' units into Cobras unbeknownst to unsuspecting owners and ultimately into all subsequent Frua bodied ACs. On delivery from Frua, the chassis was fitted with a manual box, though an auto was substituted very early in its life when still in the ownership of AC and in truth the definitive specification of this and indeed any 428 was very much subject to ongoing tweaks as is often the case in limited volume production cars. There are rumours that it was bodied in alloy, rather than the steel for all subsequent production cars, though this is unsubstantiated. It isn't clear exactly why the 428 was chosen for use in the TV series, though it is well documented that the writing and production team of Brian Clemens and Gordon LT Scott were true petrol heads and as a result it's possible they were aware of this new exotic offering from AC, though it would be surprising if the use of the car was anything more than a combination of good timing and a friendly chat with Derek Hurlock/Jock Henderson of AC down in Thames Ditton. Mind you, there was probably no other more exciting British built GT newly introduced to the market in 1967, excepting perhaps the Interceptor or FF and Jensen had an established relationship with Lew Grades' rival production company ITC who produced The Baron, which was also on air at the time of the ABC produced Avengers (though was by then a couple of years old) and factory supplied Interceptors regularly appeared in ITC's 'The Champions', notable for their 'EA' registration numbers. That said, you can quite see John Steed tooling around the Hertfordshire countryside in a metallic hued West Bromwich registered FF! Following filming in the summer/autumn of '67 it was then sold by AC to its first private owner who had actually wanted a Cobra as a birthday present for his wife, but as Mk 111/AC289 Cobra production was by that time was running down, they bought this instead, directly from AC Sales Manager Jock Henderson and allegedly with no prior knowledge it had been featured on the small screen, which is surprising given The Avengers was at the time the most popular show on British television. Some years later in the early 70's it was advertised in Motor Sport magazine and by that time the owner was well aware of it's former TV role, mentioning it somewhat snootily in the ad 'for those who care for such things' and it was sold to the US in or around 1973. In the period since the car left the UK in the early 70's, the trail had gone cold and it was widely rumoured to have been broken up to surrender its chassis identity to form the basis of a Cobra clone, like a number of other unfortunate 428's (unbelieveably this dreadful practice continues to this day as the value of genuine Cobras climb ever higher and 5 cars of the 81 built are known to have suffered this fate). I fell in love with this car (and more to the point, Tara King) as a schoolboy back in the early 1980's following Channel 4 re-runs of The Avengers and spent the next 20 years desparately trying to trace it to confirm it had survived. Against all the odds not only has it survived, but exists completely intact in the USA and is exactly as it left the factory, with less than 40k miles on the clock from new and still on its original Avon tyres and sporting its unique metal hood cover, which was not adopted for general production on subsequent 428's. In 2006 it was advertised by its long term owner mustangsonline for $120 000, but I'm not sure if it sold though. I find it quite incredible that it actually survives, so maybe one day I'll finally get to own it! There are a number of excellent photographs of the car on the Frua.de web site including shots of the car being constructed at Carrosserie Frua, Turin during the summer of 1965. It is true that Steed originally drove the car and it was then passed onto Tara. Actress Linda Thorson couldn't actually drive at the time of filming (though she was having lessons I think). For whatever reason, she didn't take to the car (or maybe AC just wanted it back, with it being one of a very few 428's in existence at the time), so she moved on initially to a very early Lotus Elan +2 registered NPW999F, followed by a series 1 export only (but right hand drive) Europa, PPW999F, both finished in red. The 428 convertible was officially known as a drophead coupe, not a spider and yes, Keith Moon did own a white fixed head coupe, registered EMX431J though he is rumoured also to have had a drophead too. I really should get out more... -- Last edit: 2008-12-19 16:27:22 |
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