Didn´t they use that car in the Sweeny, it wasn´t life on mars, that was an audi and a ford executive!
According to Wikipedia, the name came from a fictitious 'Z' division in the Police. It was not from the use of the Ford Zodiac and Ford Zephyr cars used.
I know they used the big buses, but they also used the Anglia with the z shaped back, perhaps that is where the fictitious name came from. ..... or was it the mysterons?
with me at the steering wheel, must have been 21/22, although the reflections today are somewhat different
. Remember quite vividly putting the car through it's paces in an unused airfield. That car topped up 110Miles effortlessly in a matter of 25 secs.Noticed it was the posh version with the extra headlights!Found another Photo of my first 'love'
Did they cross the Vauxhall Victor with the Ford Zodiac? Interesting puppies!
I was 5 years old then. I remember the old analog mobiles, the sort that's £0.50p a minute, billed by the minute, that was on vodacall, later Vodafone.Hi Chris......no not a CB aerial and am totally ignorant re CB but had a few friends that were crazy for it!
¿Nevertheless I imagine is was on similar lines to CB?
It was actually a mobile car phone system.....from memory I think I had it installed in about 1984 at a then, stupid price in excess of 2000 British pounds.
With that was a call cost of some 0.30 pence per minute and a monthy maintenance cost!
System was and installed by Securicor (then opposite the WBA football ground) who became partners with British Telecom, the only other player in those days was Racal (later to become Vodaphone).
Example of working was say..........Chris rings from landline to a special Securicor number and asks to speak to 'YELLOW 262' (my nick then allocated by Securicor), Securicor then rings me in the car and says that Chris is online to speak to you .....fine, please put him through. Cannot remember exactly but I think that I had to press a keypad button to talk then release to listen to you. It proved itself to be a great tool which gave then, a step above your possible competitors as clients ( who did not know of the install) could not believe the response time with dealing with their request for me to call in etc. It paid for itself from the first day, absolutely fantastic.
Another great thing was that when the Securicor operator rang the car and said the girlfriend was on the phone you could say 'tell her there is no contact , must be out of signal range'!!.......literally saved by the bell!
Never thought I would ever need to use the old phone again, having kept it as a momento of business days but got it out of its box and took these pics this afternoon:-
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Cannot remember who said it, think it was LP, but was racal well before Vodafone!
Was that a NEC? They were sh**
Yes it was an nec
I use a Sagem sat receiver, twin tuner and F ing good. hard drive and all the trimmings. Still think NEC where sh**
OK SA
Snap, had one also and was ex post office. It had been resprayed white (I really think hand painted!) but was still royal mail red inside. I would fill it up with petrol then forget about it for a month! Those were the days when we put an old sitting room chair in the back and went off for a family day fishing at the coast.
Actually Brian my Brother added those extra two two, Cause at that particular time, the Maltese Archbishop had been given a car just like mine
