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Brian Watson

United Kingdom
188 Posts

Posted - 25/04/2020 : 18:20:55

Watched "Death on the Nile" (the 1978 version) last night on the BBC iplayer and spotted FS3604 - J4205 - making a special guest appearance about 7 minutes in (it's only there for a couple of scenes so you don't have to sit through the whole thing).

In the film it's painted a rather nice shade of grey but I see from the Register that it's now red.

Used to be Brian Rhead's car, I believe.

Brian

Simon Johnston

United Kingdom
6000 Posts

Posted - 25/04/2020 : 19:42:25

Originally supplied to the wonderfully named Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd., in Edinburgh

Simon J
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Christian H

Germany
58 Posts

Posted - 27/04/2020 : 20:17:27

When J4205 got the job to be used in the film there was one problem:

It was red - same as Mia Farrows hair. And Mia Farrows red hair didn�t correspondent with a red car. In the opinion of the film producers this was a no-go.
The solution was to repaint J4205 for the film in the grey shade we see BUT the paint was water-colour based - it was easily washed off...-;)

J4205 lived many years in Berlin and was actively used.

Christian Hoeptner

colintf

United Kingdom
1483 Posts

Posted - 27/04/2020 : 20:30:25

Danke Christian. That's an interesting story :)

Colin Murrell
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Photographer for MGCC (LeMans Classic, Oldtimer Grand Prix etc) & MG Motor (BTCC 2012-5)
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