1938 Standard Flying Twenty [20BA]

1938 Standard Flying Twenty [20BA] in Empire of the Sun, Movie, 1987

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:

Background vehicle

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Alessandro58 ◊ 2013-08-28 10:22	johnfromStaffs wrote: In the picture in front of the large country house, presumably the Berkshire location, appears on the right what looks to be, from the width of its radiator grille, a Standard Flying V-VIII.
Alessandro58 ◊ 2013-08-28 10:26	Plate is 6004, probably fake...
Sunbar ◊ 2019-11-08 20:48	Miss-labelled for six years, 1938 Standard Flying Eight rather than Flying V-VIII (or V8), however not I believe a V8 but a 1938 Flying Twenty. A Flying Twenty V8 has an even larger grille and almost parallel sided for most of its width, V8s also appeared to have over-riders on the bumper. Its believed as few as three still exist world wide with only one in the UK. Also here... https://www.standardmotorclub.org.uk/page555.html
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2019-11-09 09:20	Fair enough, you have put a lot of effort into sorting out Standard’s messy collection of prewar cars. S & G said of the V-VIII that it had “enough horsepower to propel the machine at 80mph, which was much too fast for the chassis...” A pal had a 1947 Fourteen. The above comment seems credible to me.