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1995 Vauxhall Astra 1.4 Merit MkIII 
Ep. 2.04Class: Cars, Hatchback — Model origin: 
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00:11:40 ![[*]](/res/star.png){kind=small}
Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2013-06-18 23:00 |
![[Image: vauxastra2.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/7478/vauxastra2.jpg) The vehicle details for M870 LUU are: Date of Liability 05 10 2005 Date of First Registration 03 01 1995 Year of Manufacture 1995 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1388cc Fuel Type PETROL Vehicle Colour BLUE (I guess resprayed) |
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◊ 2020-09-27 06:16 |
this may have been a real Met car, since there's a few actual units in this plate series: Link to "www.emergency-vehicles.co.uk" https://www.emergency-vehicles.co.uk/Emergency-Vehicles-Online/UK/UK-Police/Metropolitan-Police/Vauxhall-Astra/i-7P8kck7/A Link to "www.emergency-vehicles.co.uk" https://www.emergency-vehicles.co.uk/Emergency-Vehicles-Online/UK/UK-Police/Metropolitan-Police/Vauxhall-Astra/i-gTS7pvs/A I wonder if some film cars back in the 1980s and 1990s/early 2000s were real Met vehicles set aside for TV/film productions because there are quite a few Met vehicles that fell into actual fleet batches here on the site in various London area productions. -- Last edit: 2020-09-27 06:17:09 |
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◊ 2020-09-28 21:21 |
Most likely it's just an ex-Met car bought by a prop company, the livery looks dodgy (the stripe ends too far from the headlamp, also think the badge is wrong for a 1995 car). Ex-police cars are much cheaper here than standard retail used cars and more realistic for police cars (Vauxhall in particular used different specs) so for prop companies it's a lot better for them than using a normal used car. |
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◊ 2020-09-29 06:01 |
must have had a fairly short and rough life in the Met (would have been out of service by mid 1997) considering its earliest appearance was in CI5: The New Professionals: /vehicle_1081696-Vauxhall-Astra-1995.html |
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◊ 2020-09-29 06:04 |
crashed one that got repaired ? there is a place near where i live that has several crashed /retired police cars and ambulances -- Last edit: 2020-09-29 06:11:18 |
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◊ 2020-09-29 09:29 |
i think this car was the car crashed in London's Burning: /vehicle_835146-Vauxhall-Astra-1995.html hence why it looks so strange here (filmed a year prior, so would have gotten a rebuilt front and new paint/markings) |
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◊ 2020-09-29 19:48 |
Earliest appearances of it seem to be from series filmed in 1998, pretty usual for police forces here to defleet cars after 3 years back in those days, particularly with standard patrol cars like Astras. -- Last edit: 2020-09-29 19:48:29 |
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◊ 2022-08-22 15:01 |
Built in UK according to https://cardotcheck.co.uk/report/free/M870LUU |
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