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does anyone keep a note of which Moggy's have been in Films and on TV?
(is there anyone silly enough)

Just seen the black Minor Van on the Good Life
VMT 923 G.....
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Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block :(
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Post by WebEditor »

Yes, we ran an article on it in Minor Matters a few years ago. Trouble is, there are literaly hundreds and hundreds of them, from fleeting glimpses in Nat west commercials, through to appearences in the Commonwealth Games and Heartbeat, and Open all Hours, and Lovejoy, and.....well, you know what I mean! :o
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Post by Peetee »

I made the mistake of renting 'Signs' the other day. (dreadful film - don't bother :cry: ) It's one saving grace was seeing the back end of a moggy on a news clip. Most unexpected in a film about aliens landing in the mid-west US of A. :o
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Post by MrA.Series »

Yes, I saw that too! I stood up in the whole cinima and exclaimed my surprise. Those alians have a great taste in cars to linger around...
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Post by Kevin »

There used to be a section on this subject including pictures from Lovejoy on this site.
http://www.minormania.com/
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Amanda Holden (Steve Wright, Radio 2 today) said that her fave car is the "Minor 1000". Did you spot the one in "American Graffiti" too?
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Post by brixtonmorris »

jasmine le bonne [however you spell her name] had a white 2 door, dont know if shes still got it. damm :o
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Post by Matt »

There is a dark blue traveller in red dwarf episode 202 - better than life!
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Morris Minor post office van in "24 hour party people".
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A LHD white 2-door 1000 saloon appears throughout the film 'Why Me?'
driven by Christopher Lloyd ( yes Dr. Emmott Brown) and Christopher Lambert (yes Connor McCleod)

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Post by d_harris »

2 on TV i've spotted recently. The programme about donald campbell featured the rear end of a white 1000 trav and a programme on Beeb2 called '9mm' showed footage of the iranian embassy seige and there was a blue one parked outside it

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I made the mistake of renting 'Signs' the other day. (dreadful film - don't bother
I just bought that movie, is it that bad?
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I thought signs was quite good (if you ignore the plot - which is mandatory with every American movie anyway...)
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Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block :(
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Post by nickyj »

Apparently my series 2 convertible was used by the BBC in 2001/2002, unfortunatly the gentleman i bought him from couldn't remember the name of the programme. He thought it was something like 'The girl?..' I would love to find out. Whilst they were filming the radiator burst and they put in a new one free of charge!
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Post by Gareth »

There was a light blue saloon in "In Denial of Murder" on BBC1 last Sunday... It's on again tonight, so keep your eyes open during the flashbacks, if you're watching.
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