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JBA Falcon 2+2 'Douglas Leopard'

JBA Falcon 2+2 in Chancer, TV Series, 1990-1991 Ep. 1.01

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:

JBA Falcon 2+2 'Douglas Leopard'

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Owner of this vehicle: leopard

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
Sandie ◊ 2011-04-02 15:01	1.05 1.10 -- Last edit: 2011-07-07 15:40:48
Gomselmash11 ◊ 2011-04-02 18:12	Plated not issued?
dsl ◊ 2011-04-02 18:20	Plate originally issued April-May 1955 - probably reused here as a cherished number.
leopard ◊ 2022-04-25 17:48	Does anybody know what the original number plate was or any details for this car, I now own this and would like some history if possible I.E. what year was the donor car?
dsl ◊ 2022-04-25 19:06	@leopard - RND 827 was a Manchester issue, as dated above to April-May 1955, but completely dead with no trace on check sites now. I guess it was a screenplate for the character of Robert Douglas, played by Benjamin Whitrow (who I think is the old white-haired bloke in some of the captures) and if memory serves was the founder of the fictional Douglas car company. So the plate as seen is a total dead end with nothing able to be pursued. If you've got the actual car, is there any clue from the paperwork for a genuine registration? Anything you can pursue with DVLA or the JBA website - https://robertgibson.tripod.com/jbahist.htm - which still seems to work, but maybe no live contact links now?? Is there a chassis plate or similar to work from?? Just as a passing comment from the 1990 screen captures - it looks a real cherished car at that point - extra lights, club badges - rather than something casually tarted up for filming, so might have been a known car amongst JBA circles 30 years ago.
leopard ◊ 2022-04-26 11:09	Hi dsl Thank you for the info, I have tried through the last owner for details but no luck, it has had 6 owners according to the log book. I have also contacted DVLA with no feed back yet. JBA club has no info apart from it was actually made for the TV program apparentlly 5 were leopards were made not sure where the others are though. The chassi plate number is ff86012206pz but tried to find out details agian with no luck. The car at some point has being resprayed a beige colour which looks much better. All the badges. lights are the same (added a few more badges) interier has been replaced with leather new carpets and a luggage rack and a new 3 litre essex engine was put in by the last owner due to the original blowing up. New shocks, springs and a full rewire. I am going to the stoneleigh kitcar show this Sunday 1st May if your interested in seeing the car (the owner of JBA factory is also going).
dsl ◊ 2022-04-26 14:18	Sadly Stoneleigh is too far away for a visit this w/end. I guess you'll probably pick up some info or contacts from the JBA folk there. If it was a new build for the TV series, it may stand a good chance of being built with Sierra bits instead of a knackered Cortina. I wonder if the factory kept it for a time as a demo car after the series to get best publicity value?? Should be fairly nippy with a 3-litre?? Have entered you as owner. If you've got any pics of it as it is today, please feel free to post them - we like seeing survivors in all their glory.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2022-04-26 17:37	The Stoneleigh was a small car built by Armstrong-Siddeley with a 9hp air-cooled V-twin sold from 1922-24. That’s another make we haven’t got. -- Last edit: 2022-04-26 17:42:21
leopard ◊ 2022-04-27 11:24	I contacted the new owner of JBA last week and asked for any history unfortunatly the records of any cars built are gone.Not sure if the car was kept for any length of time by the factory, again no history. If I meet up with any other Leopard owners I shall ask if they have any history. I will post pics soon.
leopard2 ◊ 2023-08-29 19:50	[quote=leopard2]I am the owner of the Leopard that is in the title sequences as a cherry red car. It was re-sprayed burgundy and cream during the filming and it is still in those colours. It can be seen in these colours in the first scenes in the garage and in any other scenes including parked outside at the party. It is also the same car in its burgundy and cream colours used in the promotion photographs with Clive Owen. I have the full build record of the car including original receipts from Central Television. Mine was built by a builder in Reading, I am not sure who built the others or if it was the same person. It had more than one registration number during the show but reverted to the registration of the donor car when it was sold at the end of filming. 5 were built for the programme and badged as Leopards. Others JBA falcons had plastic leopard badges covering the JBA badges to make up numbers in group shots etc. as far as I know mine was built with a slightly shorter wheelbase than the other 4 cars so that it would perform on the skidpan. I was lucky enough to meet and old guy a few years ago who was the special effects manager. He hit the bumper with his walking stick and announced “ I know this car”. Then told me all about it and about making the programme especially the fire scene which he said used many JBA parts. It has he who told me that the cars were often re painted during filming with various number plates to make it look like more of them. Mine, and I think the others, according to the old guy, were bought by members of the cast and crew at the end of filming.[/quote I can post photographs of how it looks today if someone can tell me how to do it.
Sandie ◊ 2023-08-29 20:00	Thanks for the info Leopard2! I have added you as owner of the red car which is listed here: /vehicle_387880-JBA-Falcon.html You can add pictures through this service here: /upload.php
leopard2 ◊ 2023-08-30 18:09	This is the car today still in the burgundy and cream colours that it had during filming. It was the first of the 5 leopards to be built and in its cherry red colour was driven by Colin Morris (Robert Genister) in the title sequences on the skid pan the colour was then changed for filming and it is seen as the motor show car outside in the party sequence with the number plate showing LEOPARD. It also appears in burgundy and cream in a number of other scenes and the series promotional photographs with Clive Owen sitting when it has a G registration.

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