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garco ◊ 2006-11-27 21:06	Same as this one: /vehicle_43008-Leyland-Princess-Funeral-Coach.html
G-MANN ◊ 2006-11-27 21:07	This picture is funny without even knowing how it ended up like this.
Ritchmo ◊ 2007-01-05 11:08	That's the point. Not even in the show do you find out how it ended up like this. You just get this single shot for about 3 or 4 seconds of what happened at the funeral taken by Dougal. Nothing else is shown or given so you are left to guess what terrible (amusing?) scenario took place.
Kazimann ◊ 2007-06-22 17:49	Reg. plate matches the vehicle (www.cartell.ie)
lastinpurple ◊ 2007-10-19 15:41	That car was a rarity.
CarChasesFanatic ◊ 2007-10-19 15:47	It probably was not destroyed, it is not apprently broken, it just have the hood open, and it could have been protected against the fire.
Ingo ◊ 2007-10-19 18:35	If it should't be destroyed, the back fire was placed very dangerously - if the huge window and the side-panel would be demolished, it probably could be impossible the repair it. How to get parts?
Ingo ◊ 2007-10-19 18:40	When I was a little boy, I've seen this ultimate car on the street and have immediately thought: "When I'll be dead, this MUST be my funeral car": http://www.m100.de/gallery/pics/big/pic48.jpg But it's not possible any more. At first I'm not living any more in Hannover, where this dream-car was really in use and the second reason is, that it was sold some years ago to a collector in the U.S.
antp ◊ 2007-10-19 22:53	Ingo wrote the back fire was placed very dangerously Isn't it placed with CGI? It looks a little fake
CarChasesFanatic ◊ 2007-10-19 23:08	From the still photo it seems real fire but it could be CGI yes, in the series Cuenta Atrás in the episode 1x04, they used very well done CGI fire as well i was surprised it looked very authentic.
Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2007-10-19 23:31	If the fire is a visual effect, the flames themselves might be real and composited into the shot digitally.
Bravada ◊ 2007-10-19 23:56	I believe there is only one remaining, so I doubt it any damage was inflicted... It also had a memorable cameo in Keeping Up Appearances.
G-MANN ◊ 2007-10-20 00:52	That fire isn't CGI, when this was made (1996) they would never have been able to afford CGI fire that would have looked that realistic. What they probably did was put some special flammable substance on the body panels and set fire to that, it would only have burnt away some of the paintwork and that could easily be fixed. And in 1996 that would have been much cheaper and quicker than fiddling around with CGI. Look at the picture, the fire is only on the outside of the car, the engine isn't on fire at all. -- Last edit: 2007-10-20 01:07:01
Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2007-10-20 01:03	Bravada wrote I believe there is only one remaining, so I doubt it any damage was inflicted... It also had a memorable cameo in Keeping Up Appearances. The one seen in Keeping Up Appearances is unlikely to be the same individual car, because the comment from Kazimann above says that the Irish registration number seen here is valid.
Bravada ◊ 2007-10-20 01:37	It does look CGI and the CGI was there in 1996. I remember an Aussie-Polish sci-fi series that ran about that time in TV and they've made extensive use of CGI and video manipulation technique.
Bravada ◊ 2007-10-20 01:38	Gag Halfrunt wrote The one seen in Keeping Up Appearances is unlikely to be the same individual car, because the comment from Kazimann above says that the Irish registration number seen here is valid. Well, I guess then one of them might have perished in the meantime...
G-MANN ◊ 2007-10-20 01:49	In 1996 CGI would have been more expensive and less easy to do than it is today, not to mention I've seen various films and TV shows with CGI fire and it often looks crap. It might only look CGI to you because this is a freeze frame still thus the fluidity of the flames doesn't come across. Surely my suggestion makes more sense than it being CGI, this is only a sitcom with ordinary British TV production values, if it had used CGI it wouldn't have looked remotely convincing, not at their budget, it would have looked like something out of an old computer game. -- Last edit: 2007-10-20 01:55:33
CarChasesFanatic ◊ 2007-10-20 01:58	Yes G-MANN is right, if the epiode was rom 1996 the CGI definetly was not that good at all, what is more, in 1996 for a low budget soap was unlikely to use CGI, it would cost a lot fo money, and no, definetly it wouldnt have been that well done.
Bravada ◊ 2007-10-20 11:01	And how did you know it was expensive and not good? CGI as already in extensive use in mid-1990s and I believe BBC had the facilities to do that. PS. By CGI here I mean transposing a footage of flames onto the car. I know it's a still frame, but the flames do look significantly "smaller" than the car.
G-MANN ◊ 2007-10-20 16:24	Bravada wrote And how did you know it was expensive and not good? CGI as already in extensive use in mid-1990s and I believe BBC had the facilities to do that. This isn't BBC, it was made for Channel 4. And back then good CGI was only used for very big budget stuff (try watching a mid-90s film that isn't something like Jurassic Park or Independence Day, most affordable CGI back then was still rough around the edges), Father Ted wasn't big budget at all. I'm not going to discuss this anymore, common sense tells me that's not CGI or superimposed imagery. -- Last edit: 2007-10-20 16:37:25
antp ◊ 2007-10-20 22:31	Jurassic Park used 3d-made images. Here we are rather talking about a real fire video added over the movie video. That was already made 100 years ago
Kazimann ◊ 2009-09-23 00:50	Austin Morris Princess See Images Year: 1981 Style: Hearse Number of Seats: 2 Engine: 2.0L Fuel Type: Petrol Colour: Black History Status Written Off [?] No Scrapped [?] No Previously Taxi [?] No Previously Hackney [?] No Imported [?] Yes Number of Owners (In Ireland): 1 Changed Engine # [?] No Changed Colour No Tax Expiry Date: Dec 1996
paul4990 ◊ 2009-12-06 01:15	so looks like they did kill it
LordOfRides ◊ 2011-01-16 23:01	I've never seen a hearse like this.... Might be that only one is left...
Trainboy12 ◊ 2011-07-09 12:36	What was the episode this was in called?
kudos ◊ 2014-01-16 17:17	This was episode 2.11 'A Christmassy Ted', first broadcast on the 24th of December 1996.
chicomarx ◊ 2014-01-16 17:38	Bravada wrote I believe there is only one remaining, so I doubt it any damage was inflicted... Turns out you're wrong, they blew it up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmkeAlut7KI#t=22m55s
mauriceoxford ◊ 2021-09-25 11:43	Shortly after this shot it fully exploded. It wasn't going to survive that..

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1981 Woodall Nicholson Hebden Hearse Series II [ADO71]

1981 Woodall Nicholson Hebden [ADO71] in Father Ted, TV Series, 1995-1998 Ep. 2.11

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