From 'The Avengers' With Love

BenL · 1st March 2006, 01:33 PM

In the episode of "The Avengers" called "From Venus With Love" a GT40 made a brief appeance at the end of the show. The car was painted silver and the nose of the car was slightly modified so a "laser" could emerge.

The episode first aired January 14, 1967, so it probably was an original GT40 (the details look correct). Does anyone know which car it was?

BenL · 1st March 2006, 02:01 PM

Here's a picture of Emma Peal (Diana Rigg) discovering the car.

BenL · 1st March 2006, 02:15 PM

Nose of the car, you can see how it was modified for the "laser". It looks like the NACA ducts and the lower lights were masked before painting.

BenL · 1st March 2006, 02:17 PM

Close up of Ms. Peel examining the car.

Behind her you can see the trumpets of the carbs.

BenL · 1st March 2006, 02:30 PM

The "laser" emerges.

If you look carefully inside the nose you can see the top of the windscreen washer bottle, the wiper motor and the brake line fittings.

BenL · 1st March 2006, 02:34 PM

Last picture (I don't remember where I found them).

Ms. Peel looks puzzled.

Mark Clapp · 1st March 2006, 02:36 PM

Looks like there is a LeMans light on the right rear corner so maybe P1017?, although several had these lights. She was a babe, and the car looked good too.

David Morton · 1st March 2006, 02:43 PM

She was one of the parents at Wycombe Abbey School (here in Buckinghamshire) at the same time my eldest daughter was a student there. Saw her quite often - a lot older than the pics above but still 'a babe'.
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BenL · 1st March 2006, 02:47 PM

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Looks like there is a LeMans light on the right rear corner

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Good catch, I missed that detail.

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She was a babe, and the car looked good too.

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I figured no one would object to a post of the pictures if Diana Rigg was in them. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

David Morton · 1st March 2006, 02:50 PM

Then and now ?

David Morton · 1st March 2006, 02:51 PM

another

Danny Grayne · 1st March 2006, 03:15 PM

Keep cool boys, the matter was the car ... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nono.gif[/img]

Paul · 1st March 2006, 11:54 PM

Hey a classy chassis will always be a classy chassis [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/1poke.gif[/img]

Pete McCluskey. · 2nd March 2006, 12:16 AM

Both still look pretty good 40 years on... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flehan.gif[/img]

chris want · 2nd March 2006, 04:08 AM

what a babe both look better as they get older.she can ride with me anytime i need a co pilot

Danny Grayne · 2nd March 2006, 11:54 AM

Please stop kidding and go to do your homework ! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beat.gif[/img]

Tod · 2nd March 2006, 03:52 PM

I'm sorry was there a GT40 in that picture with Mrs.Peel???

LoveGT40 · 2nd March 2006, 03:59 PM

boh...maybe cause I am 32....maybe cause I like too much playboy magazine...but think I prefer that american siliconed beauty as Sharon Stone is... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Paolo

David Morton · 2nd March 2006, 04:40 PM

Paolo,
esso essere tempo per voi un freddo douch. Questo donna essere vecchio abbastanza essere Sharon Stones madre, ma ancora osserv fantastico.

Peter Olliviere · 2nd March 2006, 04:43 PM

OK, for all of you that harbor a secret passion for the lovly Emma Peel I have this from todays paper.

The Avengers: the Complete Emma Peel Megaset Collection which contains every episode of the show in which Peel faced the state's enemies with her wits, weapons and sexual innuendo.

16 disks, 51 remastered episodes, plus three socalled lost episodes. This set also contains the memorable "Touch of Brimstone" episode which is the source of all fetish photos of Peel in a spiked dog collar.

Price for the set is listed as US$180.00.

Nuthing to do with me, just saw the article in todays paper.

Peter