Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 18-Nov-2006, 11:40pm
I remembered the advert for that, is it the one with a Herald on the cover with the bonnet openning hinged near the windscreen? (the wrong way
round?)
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 18-Nov-2006, 11:51pm
AHh yes.... such trivia, just googled for it now to confirm my suspicions... I am sad, I am Vin.
my daughter called me a saddo tonight when I pointed out an anomoly on the 'Euronics' advert on TV for electrical goods. The cartoon 240V plug that talks to you has the earth pin and the other two pins the wrong way round....
coat.......
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Colin Wake, 19-Nov-2006, 00:18am
If you sit and watch the home page refresh enough time there is a picture of me (and a few others) sitting in 'Crazy Horse' when we borrowed it for a show at Ally PAlly.
BOy what a heap of poop that car was.
The bonnet didn't open the 'right' way either, due to the accident damage at the front.
If you watch the Newly aquired DVD, you can spot that there are actually 2 cars used. The original was crashed by a stage hand who borrowed it for the night.
The replacement was a death trap. No it was worse that that!
Cheers
Colin
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Wayne Farnworth, 18-Nov-2006, 11:57pm
Andy
It's good that you found a DVD version of it.
I find this quite useful
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/DVD-Shrink-D...
Wayne
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Andy Cook, 19-Nov-2006, 00:42am
Well the DVD versuion has a really cr@p cover, the Herald is only just visible (as per piccie below), and if I wasn't a saddo Triumph anorak I probably wouldn't have realised the Triumph significance of the film.
Yep, like Vin, I am an incurable Triumph Saddo, no cure for this I'm afraid and I've been suffering for nearly 1/4 of a century!
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : John Davies, 19-Nov-2006, 10:03am
That same original film publicity picture, with the wrong bonnet, was front page of the Courier at the time. Can't remember which issue - Vin?
We are all media queens aren't we? Even if the pic is TOTALLY wrong, we still feature it, if it shows a Triumph!
Ho, hum.
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Vin Poonwassie, 19-Nov-2006, 06:03pm
Don't know which courier it was on, maybe it's one of those subliminal things and that's where I saw the wrong bonnet?, but I dont keep old couriers, unless there's an image of my yellow banana in it, like not featured but if there's a pic of Stafford or something and there's a little yellow blob in the far distance and I know I parked the car there - then it's in the courier! woo hoo!
Incidentally, in the hall pic of Stafford on this TSSC website for Stafford 2005, there's a picture of a line of red triumphs (with a red XK or Jensen in the line up?) and in the far far far distance there's a yellow spit, with a 70's spoiler - that'll be my banana then!
(yes V sad.......)
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : John Davies, 19-Nov-2006, 06:11pm
September 1993 Issue 159.
Now who's a saddo?
And that issue had a competition to win said Crazy Horse, RRN 67K, said to be "unroadworthy"!
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Philip Willcocks, 20-Nov-2006, 12:12pm
Following on from Colin's post about borrowing the car (oops, one of the cars) featured in the film, I still have some of the script which we found in the glovebox!
Borrowing the car was quite easy, all I did was telephone the film director and ask him nicely.
We also got some promotional material from the agents, this is still at Club HQ.
Funny thing was that Shepperton Studios called about a month after we borrowed the car for the Alexandra Palace Classic Car Show (London) and asked where it was, we had dumped it back at the studio's back lot and they hadn't even noticed. Shortly after they offered it back to the club for use as a prize, can't remember who won it or what they did with it - any answers?-
Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....James Morrison are you out there?
Posted By : Stephen Pratt, 20-Nov-2006, 02:42pm
According to the December 1993 issue no 162, it was won by a James Morrison of St James Wood, London - according to the DVLa records, the car is not on the road and has not been since 1993!
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....James Morrison are you out there?
Posted By : Wayne Farnworth, 20-Nov-2006, 03:22pm
He's in Paris isn't he?
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Andy Cook, 21-Nov-2006, 00:06am
Vin,
Got my first Triumph a Dolly 1850 in 1982, replaced by a 1500 spitty in 1984 and then my current GT6 MK3 in 1988.....
When I bought the Dolly I was also looking at Ford Escort 1300Es and Ghias, blimey life could have been so different if I'd gone down this route.......
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Steve Cureton, 21-Nov-2006, 08:39am
I've never heard of this film, what's it about and is it worth buying?
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Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Colin Wake, 21-Nov-2006, 09:33am
It is about a blokes attempt to get home to scotland in his unreliable herald for Xmas (?) or maybe a wedding.
Lightly humourous, but obviously factually flawed.
Pay in the low single figures if possible. Lord of the Rings it ain't!
Cheers
Colin-
Soft Top Hard Shouler Bargain....
Posted By : Henri + Robert Newton-Allen, 01-Jun-2007, 11:04pm
Guy's
i know this is a long after the intial posting but.......... the 13/60 from 'soft top hard shoulder' is still alive...well sort of.
Its owned by a chap in cornwall who won it in the clubs raffle in a round about way, he had it passed onto him after the winner didnt want it and the runner up didnt want it either. Its a shed..... and in need of.......... I have been promised it WILL be resurrected one day, with a bonnet than hinges the right way .
Rob
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