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MGC conversations with Richard Mixture, May 2018
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Smile You’re in the Movies
ello again, it’s Richard here and
I‘ve been watching a couple of
films lately. Mrs Mixture popped down to
the local library and brought back sev-
eral books and a basket full of CDs. I
find it a little mind boggling that some-
one can think that they can read all
those books and watch all those movies
within a couple of weeks. Anyway I
know I don’t watch all of them and I
have no idea what she does when I nip
down to the local for a pint of Old Speck-
led Hen.
Sitting back in the old wing back with a
cup of English Breakfast I start thinking
about some of the iconic cars that have
featured in TV programs or in the Mov-
ies. The first car that jumps into my
mind is the DB5 that James drives in
Goldfinger, yes that’s the same model
that Bazz picked up in the UK for 2/6
pence back in the olden days.
I always remember the Avengers on the
telly in the ‘60s and I just wanted to be
like that bowler hatted Stead driving
around in a vintage 3 litre Bentley. I al-
ways liked them until I help an owner
change a wheel one day. I had to be
like the Incredible Hulk to lift the damn
thing. It was certainly heavier than a
Mini wheel!
I never fancied General Lee, the orange
’69 Dodge Charger that those Duke
boys used to drive around and around
whatever tree it was. Nor did I care for
the yellow Chevrolet C-2500, Crew Cab
Silverado, in Kill Bill called the ‘Pussy
Wagon’. I thought the film was about a
vet. The ‘68 Mustang GT 390 in Bullitt
that Steve McQueen drove was pretty
good though. He tried his darndest to
shred those narrow tyres.
But what about our favourite MG the
‘C’? Did it appear in any movies or TV
shows? Have you heard of ‘Mannix’, or
‘Tatort’ – ‘Kressin stoppt den Nordex-
press’, or ‘The Bank Job’ or ‘Die
Screaming, Marianne’ or ‘Vild på sex’?
The last movie translates to Wild On ...
ahem, Oh my goodness in Australia this
1974 Swed is h f ilm was c alled
‘Confessions of Sweet Sixteen’. A prim-
rose ‘C’ roadster features near the be-
ginning and the end of the film but I had
to watch it all the way through just in
case I missed something and I didn’t
miss a thing! It takes be back to my
teenage years when I went to some of
those works buck’s nights.
Have you seen these films ‘La moglie
del prete’, ‘Big Zapper’, ‘Chérif’ or
‘Prudence and the Pill’? You may have
seen these telly programs ‘Callan’,
‘Dalziel and Pascoe’, ‘Hawaii Five-O’,
and ‘Division 4’, in black and white, that
also had a short scene with a parked
MGC GT. Sadly the ‘C’ features in the
background of most of these films/TV
programmes, so no cameos here.
Series 6, Episode 16 of that 1960s se-
ries, the Avengers was probably the
best programme featuring a white MGC
roadster driven by Lady Diana Forbes-
Blakeney. For only one episode Lady
Diana filled in for Tara King who was
Steed’s side kick during the series.
All models of MG feature in hundreds of
movies and TV series but the MGC only
presents itself about 20 times on the
screen and mainly in the background as
the main character drives past a parked
‘C’.
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