The Essex gangsters range rover classic

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The morbid has always fascinated and always will tbh.
I read somewhere that the car bonnie and Clyde got finished off in was a tourist attraction for a good while, a family member , can't recall, charged peeps to have their photos taken sitting in it.
 
Flossie said:
The morbid has always fascinated and always will tbh.
I read somewhere that the car bonnie and Clyde got finished off in was a tourist attraction for a good while, a family member , can't recall, charged peeps to have their photos taken sitting in it.
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And James Deans Speedster was taken on tour. But this particular RRC is actually part of the history and [some] of the culture of Essex at that time, so if the OP has an interest that's fine - doubt it'll wind up at Gaydon though!
 
Flossie said:
The morbid has always fascinated and always will tbh.
I read somewhere that the car bonnie and Clyde got finished off in was a tourist attraction for a good while, a family member , can't recall, charged peeps to have their photos taken sitting in it.
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when i went to florida there was a police museum that had an electric chair in a themed room

they said it was out of one of there prisons , couldn't even sit in it, made me go cold :eek:
 
Sorry to drag up and old thread.... but you know what it’s like at 03:24 in the morning and you have nothing better to do at work other than read forums!

So I’ve stumbled across this, and like some I also have a morbid fascination with gangsters and murderers (when gangsters were gangsters of course), don’t be alarmed is more the physiological psychology that fascinates me.

Ok so just to make this sound even weirder than it already does....

I remember watching this unfold on the news when I was 15, and as I grew older I found myself happily driving my Range Rover Classic and the memories came back of that car been driven away. Then it appeared on eBay, by now I’m hooked on Range Rovers and just watched Rise of the foot soldier for the first time of many, I phoned the guy after the auction had been pulled and he told me, it had been or was going to be shipped to Canada.

I didn’t believe him if I’m been honest, but either way a piece of history had just slipped through my fingers, which brings me to now and I’m yet again left wondering if that car is still out there and did it go to a worthy owner?
 
t0m1980 said:
Sorry to drag up and old thread.... but you know what it’s like at 03:24 in the morning and you have nothing better to do at work other than read forums!

So I’ve stumbled across this, and like some I also have a morbid fascination with gangsters and murderers (when gangsters were gangsters of course), don’t be alarmed is more the physiological psychology that fascinates me.

Ok so just to make this sound even weirder than it already does....

I remember watching this unfold on the news when I was 15, and as I grew older I found myself happily driving my Range Rover Classic and the memories came back of that car been driven away. Then it appeared on eBay, by now I’m hooked on Range Rovers and just watched Rise of the foot soldier for the first time of many, I phoned the guy after the auction had been pulled and he told me, it had been or was going to be shipped to Canada.

I didn’t believe him if I’m been honest, but either way a piece of history had just slipped through my fingers, which brings me to now and I’m yet again left wondering if that car is still out there and did it go to a worthy owner?
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"worthy" ... now that's a word to chew over on a Sunda mornin' ....

Depends what you mean by 'worthy' ....
 
I confess not having read all the pages of posts, so someone may have mentioned this already … cannot the VIN # be checked with any police/insurance co. records?
Personally I can't understand people's morbid fascination, but do agree that all Classics should be restored. In the case of this one (whether it's 'the' car or not) completely strip it out & have the shell steam cleaned, which will not only remove the 'smell' but reveal all the corrosion, then see if a restoration is viable.
 
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There was a similar model bought at auction and spayed the same colour, this has been used for film and TV work, but it does NOT have the external door hinges NOR the sun roof as the original ... just saying ....
 
Dippypud said:
"worthy" ... now that's a word to chew over on a Sunda mornin' ....

Depends what you mean by 'worthy' ....
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Preferably someone who has not jacked it up and smashed it up off road, is what I meant.

norseman said:
I confess not having read all the pages of posts, so someone may have mentioned this already … cannot the VIN # be checked with any police/insurance co. records?
Personally I can't understand people's morbid fascination, despite agreeing that all Classics should be restored. In the case of this one I would say (be it THE one or not) completely strip it out, have the shell steam cleaned which will reveal all the corrosion & then see if a restoration is viable.
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I wouldnt know about that as I work on the Railway, but IMO it would be always be viable as it’s part of history, I can understand why people don’t share my love for it, but it would be a boring place if we were all the same. I just hope whoever has it, respects its heritage
 
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