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◊ 2013-03-17 21:24 |
Plain enough for an Estate/Minx, or is it a Hunter? |
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◊ 2013-03-17 21:24 |
VW 1302 behind it |
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◊ 2013-03-17 21:45 |
Plain trim, so model name depends on date - 1967 Hillman Estate became 1968 Minx Estate became 1970 Hunter DL Estate ... Have gone for Minx Estate. As comment seen elsewhere - is there a possibility of Malta? If so, there was local assembly. It looks a RHD/drive-on-left location, so not going for Sunbeam rebranding. |
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◊ 2013-03-17 21:48 |
Unfortunately all pics are in bad quality - a detailed view on the plates woud help. Or an orientated loacation scout... |
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◊ 2013-03-17 21:50 |
Rather not, if you mention the buses: /vehicle.php?id=581218 (assumed, that all scenes are from the same location) |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:00 |
Here's the best shot of a licence plate in the entire film:![[Image: vlcsnap-2013-03-17-21h52m59s226.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/4290/vlcsnap-2013-03-17-21h52m59s226.jpg) |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:02 |
Red plate in a French-style make... - but the cars on this beach-drive (Minx Estate, VW 1302, Rover P6) had different ones, so there are different locations, I think. -- Last edit: 2013-03-17 22:03:58 |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:14 |
No, I don't think there are different locations. They are from four different shots taken from the Mercedes-Benz in the city. In the last shot, the one filmed between all the trees, you can clearly see that when the Mini passes the Ponton, the Mini has a black on while the Ponton has a red one. It's probably a passenger car/taxi plate system, or something like that. All the cars in the film have a mixture of both red and black plates. Israel seems to have had similar red plates, but not enough digits and just reserved for police vehicles: http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/AS_ISRA.html However, the black ones partly fit with the 1967-82 Sinai ones. |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:20 |
But the pictures do seem to have both driving-on-left and driving-on-right situations. |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:21 |
No, all the cars drive on the right. |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:26 |
Oough, this reminds me, that in 1997, at my Israel-trip, I've found such a red plate on the street. I had it for long minutes in my hands and have pondered "Take it or not?"  But then I became chicken and have put it back on the sidewalk. Which was a very good decision, becaude I had no chance to smuggle it out of the country. My luggage was so extremely frisked, as I never had experienced it before (DDR) or later (North Korea). The reasoning was, that I had made side trip to Jordan, so there would be the possibility, that bad guys had smuggled a bomb into my stuff. |
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◊ 2013-03-17 22:28 |
Annother question. Was this unique British car, a Hillman Minx Estate [Arrow] ever officially built as LHD-car and officially exported to LHD-countries? If yes, to where?  |
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◊ 2013-03-17 23:05 |
Yes it got around a bit but most LHD production would have been as Sunbeam - basically wherever Rootes sold Arrows in Europe, Middle East, Caribbean, bits of South America, HK etc; not sure without checking if any attempt for US and CDN. Also various local assembly Aus, ZA (as Hillman Safari), NZ, some bits of Caribbean, Venezuela, Malta. |
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◊ 2013-03-18 00:35 |
Could be a Lebanese taxi plate: http://plaque.free.fr/as/rl/?path=./_HISTOR/PUBLIC/ |
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