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unknown in The Prime Minister Is Missing, Movie made for TV, 2008
Class: Cars, Sedan — — Made for: 
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2024-04-17 21:29 |
1962 Chevrolet Bel Air? |
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◊ 2024-04-17 21:37 |
... so famous enough to be traced?? |
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◊ 2024-04-17 22:00 |
Could be a Canadian Pontiac (with Chevy body) aswell, I'd guess. |
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◊ 2024-04-18 01:22 |
The Wikipedia article on the assassination attempt calls the car in question a "Commonwealth car" but nothing specific. |
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◊ 2024-04-18 01:31 |
All I could find were these pictures that only show different angles of the door but more of the interior. https://images.slideplayer.com/14/4187183/slides/slide_60.jpg https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0f4697d268c8dbe3766b5ecc1cdfe37e |
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◊ 2024-04-18 11:19 |
https://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-10/COMCAR-five.pdf I've been reading through this, to see what the pool of cars may have been at that time: Rolls-Royce/Daimlers (unlikely, hes not that important) 1959 Ford Fairlane - should have all been replaced by this point 1963 Humber Super Snipe - maybe? It looks like they had Pontiacs at the same time too So maybe worth someone who knows more than me looking down the Humber line? |
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◊ 2024-04-18 13:44 |
Quarterlights and pillars are not Humber. My hunch is not a Brit thing - we tended to have sharp quarterlight corners, not rounded - but that's not a definite statement as exceptions may exist. If Calwell was opposition leader, would he have had an official car or just his own privately owned whatever?? |
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◊ 2024-04-19 02:15 |
He still should have been in an official car - and this attempt was in Canberra, he was from Melbourne. The article I link talks about the event a little bit, but doesn't specifically mention what car it is. |
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◊ 2024-05-01 02:31 |
1962 Chevrolet Bel Air matches the shape of the window and the chrome strip down the side in one of my links! Absent mirror is likely due to Australian placement. Link to "images.collectingcars.com" |
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◊ 2024-05-01 03:25 |
A CDN-build something (Chevy Bel Air or whatever) would match the description in one of the accounts as a Commonwealth car. A US build would not. |
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◊ 2024-05-01 18:41 |
The Bel Air in my link is an Australian build, as the steering wheel is on the right-hand side. |
