Dempsey & Makepeace - What Happened to their Cars?

[@bobfrankish8883]

Shame they have all gone, but not surprising really. TBH, never took much notice of the cars, too busy fantasising about Glynis Barber, but that's just me!

[@georgedesouza8937]

She was hot!

[@williamrae9954]

Same here...I was 15-16yrs old...She made a bedsheet tent,so she did 😂

[@michaelb9664]

@bobfrankish8883 it definitely wasn’t just you 😂

[@mrcurlyrambo5009]

Didn’t notice the car’s tbh

[@abc33944]

loved that they featured many american classics during the series!!

[@Mariazellerbahn]

OWC ... definitely a Ford press fleet vehicle. All the Glam Cabs in "Carry On Cabby" were OWC registrations.

[@peterbustin2683]

It is an Essex reg number in the old format.

[@CycolacFan]

Any TV series in the 1970s through the 90s filmed in the UK that featured new Fords as hero cars you can pretty much guarantee they were Ford Press Fleet supplied, most would gone on to be sold through second hand car dealers - and generally not Ford dealerships. The key to a lot of this research would be tracking down someone who worked in the Press Fleet dept.

[@nordic1121]

A car company called Action Cars supplied the vehicles for tv series in the seventies through to the late nineties and beyond, but what they did with them after the programme ended only they know, great content from you guys, I look forward to the next one.

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks!

[@gavinivers8941]

Harry's first car for a couple of programs, was a Mini.

[@gaborszabo6406]

I loved this series in my childhood, here in Hungary we could watch it at the end of 80s

[@bartl9956]

At least the marriage between Glynis and Michael survived. What more can we ask for.

[@philtowle4683]

It was checked on my marriage check

[@gaborszabo6406]

@@philtowle4683tax payed?

[@markf4720]

​@@philtowle4683are we allowed to mention Marriage Vertical? 😂

[@andrewmorton3177]

Enjoyed that! Pity none of cars are still around but it gave me the notion of watching it again & I found all the episodes on KZbin 😃 Makepeace had a black Mini early in the first season KBH484V, just did a check on it & it hasn’t been taxed since December 92, looks like another one that’s been scrapped.

[@oscarsgarage447]

Now I had it in my mind that the Mini got crushed on screen in an early episode?

[@andrewmorton3177]

@@oscarsgarage447 It did, I’ve just finished watching that very episode! 😂 However KBH484V was still taxed in 92 so obviously it wasn’t the mini that got crushed 🤔

[@oscarsgarage447]

Welcome to the Oscars Garage Research Team!!

[@glenfordburrell1076]

A chum of mine had a bit part in the series. His name was Chris Targar and was of Caribbean heritage. I wonder if viewers of this content could identify the series in which he appeared in?

[@culttelevision]

Could possibly have been Series 1 "Makepeace Not War".

[@19fireblade76]

I do enjoy your videos. On the tv cars. Keep it up

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks!

[@cerealkiller4248]

As we’re talking XR3’s, I lived in Pencoed just outside Bridgend South Wales. In 81, a new section of the M4 was opened with about 100+ Sunburst Red XR3’s all driven together down the new section……………….

[@stephenholland5930]

I'm guessing they had Bridgend built engines.

[@cerealkiller4248]

@@stephenholland5930 That, I’m not sure about. But it would make sense so it’s a good possibility.

[@Bod8998]

Glynnis was fit as specially in Blakes 7. Good little channel subbed

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks for the sub!

[@iconicetiquette4546]

Had pleasure of serving them both great couple 😀

[@waynemorris4823]

There is a white cab fitting the M-O you explained parked up on a drive local to be. The owner would have brought it early 2000’s. I tried to buy it but he wanted sill money and it was rusty. It’s still there but there’s a cover over it so impossible to get the registration number. If I do you will be the first to know mate 👍

[@oscarsgarage447]

Looking forward to an update!

[@alex80h]

New subscriber!!! I enjoyed that thankyou!! Love seeing what happens to all these classics! Enjoyed the spender and 40ra too!! Plenty more to get through 🙌🏻

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks for the sub!

[@martinkershaw6638]

love it ! keep up the great work.

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks, will do!

[@theradiodreamer]

Great video! Didn’t Makepeace have a mini in the first series that got crushed in the show ? Sorry vague memory of this

[@oscarsgarage447]

She did, but the one crushed wasn't the one she is seen driving. But the driving one appears to have dropped off the road not long afterwards.

[@craigjarvis9489]

The first one got crushed in the Sqeeze. Sorry but I wrote it. This was a comment from Jesse Carr-Martindale, on a D&M page. She was a writer on the series.👍🏻. That was a Mini i believe.

[@culttelevision]

HE was. One of the best writers . RIP

[@culttelevision]

The production company had a deal with Ford for the Escorts as it promoted the 1.6i Cabriolet. The number plates are the clues. C266 HVW was also a Ford Press plate.

[@MichaelCarradine]

With regards to the silver/grey Mercedes. If you watch the episode "Prizefighter" when both Jim and Harry are in the car and talking about who's house to go to you do see clips of and old style registration number on the car, but can't tell the characters. Not sure if anyone can enhance to see the plate

[@oscarsgarage447]

Can have a look, but the resolution on old footage makes getting fine detail like trying to make out who was on the grassy knoll...

[@999hireactionvehicles9]

The Owc was definitely scrapped it was rotten and last in Chessington, Surrey

[@diegosilang4823]

Hopefully, they are in storage more likely in poor condition. The cars from Bullit thought to be scrapped, but found more or less intact elsewhere. Depends on the owners' awareness of pop culture significance of their cars. A lot of TV cars get neglected, and few lucky ones were rescued, such as the Miami Vice ferrari replica.

[@dungareesareforfools]

I bet that white Escort is put away somewhere. In my opinion when a V5 changes hands after the last MOT expiry, it's usually gone to someone wanting to either invest in the car or use it for parts. I think a new owner would have known the significance of that car based on the forum poster's comments.

[@richfixescars]

Have a go at CATS Eyes Leslie Ash's Escort RS Turbo next, must have been a Ford press car also, similar reg C220 HVW.

[@oscarsgarage447]

Already working on it... as well as C221.

[@chrischapman3907]

The cats eyes rs turbo was scraped. Isle of Wight or Jersey. Something like that. Remember rs owners club doing a feature about it years ago.

[@999hireactionvehicles9]

The remains of the Blue turbo are in a mountain cave in Scotland,Rs club found it years ago

[@darrenfox9769]

Love this content chasing all the TV cars!

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks!

[@randomoldbloke]

A real long shot the kit car john pertwee had when he was playing dr who , yes i am old . Cheers from Australia

[@oscarsgarage447]

What this one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/labWm6yomZargZo

[@ciaranburke3243]

Nice cars pity none survived I use to watch dempsy and makepeace nice digging 😊👍

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks!

[@ChrisGallighan]

A had toy cars of the sl and the escort and the Granada and was the Granada a loved the most as in those days a 2.8 ghia x Granada was my fave car at that time was ten or something😊

[@PaulWilky-x6r]

Wonder what happened to Jimmy corkhills astra gte in brookside

[@leedavies3629]

This is brilliant it saddens me to see all the cars we took for granted av gone in the 80 I had capris MG Metros escorts BL allegro and mi girl friend bk then had a Mexico when I see tv shows the Sweeny minder there’s aways a fight in a scrap yard I look at the cars in there and it brings a tear to mi eye .Nice one dude 🙂🇬🇧✌️

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks!

[@sameyers2670]

Do any of the cars that Lewis drove in the Morse series survive? There were a couple of Sierras in the early years of Morse though it was mostly Cavaliers and Vectras

[@oscarsgarage447]

I'll look, but I imagine there are unlikely any survivors...

[@garyfallows1123]

Enjoy your videos, here's a tough one for you, the Jaguar XJ6 that the great Bob Hoskins took his last ride in as Harry Shand in the brilliant film The Long Good Friday

[@oscarsgarage447]

As you say tough.. but that's not stopped me before...

[@garyfallows1123]

@@oscarsgarage447 a man who likes a challenge, I like that 👍

[@R1chardB1ngham]

If you want one of the cars from the series, they were made in 1:64 scale or thereabouts by a company called Rainbow Toys. Silver Escort cabrio, white Merc SL, silver Granada and a blue Mercedes 307D van which seems a bit out of place - they even have the correct registration numbers. I have all the cars, and the van should be on its way to me except Evri appear to have lost it...

[@davidcannon2464]

Another good one

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks again!

[@glendrummond1227]

The merc at 1.41, looks like the number plate has been "altered" the 1st number 8 looks like it was originally a 3 and even the 2nd 8 looks odd too!! Could be just me looking too hard

[@oscarsgarage447]

Not impossible, but... A382JLB - Renault A832JLB - Honda A332JLB - Vauxhall

[@mick0846]

I always thought that once they where scrapped they vanished completely of the dvla sight?

[@oscarsgarage447]

Sadly not (and I have a video coming up showing definite examples). Unless DVLA get a notification that a vehicle has been scrapped it sits on their records. Until continuous taxation or sorn came in records were very loose - cars could easily pass through several hands without the DVLA knowing about it.

[@besenzon1]

Love these videos. Shame the cars have disappeared 😔. What about Minder or The Sweeney ?

[@Dirt-Diggler]

The sweeny consul last I heard was undergoing a resto but that was like 10 yeas ago 🤔

[@bobfrankish8883]

Minder's Capri 2 still lives, despite having been fully restored, burnt out after a fuel leak fire, then restored again. There is a fair bit on the net about that car. Don't know about Arthur's Jag though, that would be interesting.

[@oscarsgarage447]

Bob I'm onto both of them at the minute...

[@craigjarvis9489]

Both fully restored and been seen out and about at shows.

[@craigjarvis9489]

Arthurs yellow Daimler is also still out there. The same bloke owned Terrys Capri and the Daimler up to a couple years ago, but they were both sold at auction in the past 3 years or so.

[@markweston427]

What about all the cars in the TV series Lovejoy ?

[@oscarsgarage447]

Good one. On the list...

[@CycolacFan]

The Minor survived for several years after since it appeared in a magazine with the uprated engine and wheels. I bet the MMOC will know.

[@clanmac66]

Harry's A reg car would have been a XR3i and not a XR3

[@mholiday]

No it wasn’t. They were just called Escort 1.6i Convertible

[@obelic71]

Sadly Fords till the 2010's were known nesting material for tinworms. Finding a good unaffected by tinworm Escort, Capri etc.etc.today is almost like finding an unicorn. Those originals (sold new in Europe) who are still on the road today had alot of labour of love on metal work into them. Escorts MK1 shells are even being dipped and electricly galvanised!

[@craigjarvis9489]

Not so mate, upto the mid 90's i agree with. But not upto 2010. And this is coming from someone who has owned nothing but Fords from 1993 on. My current car is a 2004, Mondeo St220. I've owned it for 11 years. Never been welded or had any paintwork done. It has one spot of rust on the drivers side fnt ( bolt on )wing. Other than that, it's mint, 167,000 miles on the clock and the V6 3.0 petrol engine, still drives like new.👍🏻 I would also add, that it's my daily driver and kept outside in all weathers.

[@obelic71]

@@craigjarvis9489 The mass volume models like the Ka, Fiesta MK5, Focus MK2, Transit, Transit connect/torneo were the last models who were vunurable to tin worm. From my view the rust problem at all Ford models was solved when the Fiesta MK6 arrived. Like all carmanufacturers in that time periode Ford had to use high grade steels to meet the newest crasch safety and weight restriction (read enviromental fuel saving) regulations on new models. Those shell made out of those steels must be electricly zincplated in a bath otherwise they corode away faster then a first gen. Alfa sud in the 70's.

[@paulb4uk]

Great video in one episode there is a white jaguar a mk2 maybe it looks immaculate the end of the episode it is seen going it the sea, but clearly seems to have no engine so i wonder if that car has any chance of surviving the one that went into the sea looked like a rough example .The jaguar from stay lucky appears to have survived and the triumph renown from an episode of sapphire and steel has survived but was seen on an ebay ad in the Netherlands i believe ,it was ,it did look quite rough and the listing had no mention of the two programs the car was used in .

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks. Good few things there to follow up on!

[@oscarsgarage447]

The Jaguar in the car chase actually turns out to be a Daimler 250 (blame Morse for them all being called Jag Mk2s...). Its reg was CBP303G and was last on the road in 1999, last V5 1998.

[@markf4720]

I saw an old Audi advertised on Facebook marketplace today which was in a sorry state, DVLA says the last V5 and tax was in 2000. Same with mine which i restored, it showed as 1996 before i got it back on the road. So, i agree unlikely, but definitely possible that one or more of them are covered in pigeon poo in a barn somewhere.

[@forcedinduction2918]

The mk2 granada would of ended up gone banger racing

[@oscarsgarage447]

I think you are probably right!

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

I never cared for Dempsey and Makepeace, even as a kid, I knew it was crap and The Professionals was brilliant. Having said that, I had a toy of Dempsey's Merc. I think it was a pull back and go if I remember rightly

[@scottwhitehouse1128]

Harri a mini in the 1st episode

[@oscarsgarage447]

She did, but most only remember the Escorts... The mini crushed wasn't the one she was driving, and that lived on for a few years.

[@pmcgoo73]

Why not look up cars from the professionals🤔

[@ap5824]

Pretty much all survived

[@oscarsgarage447]

Its a work in progress...

[@hazelwoodmedia5305]

Makepeace's first car was actually an orange/red Mini, which ended up in the bushes in the pilot episode - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnvbdXuLqJeprZo (and she ended up in a binbag, lol) Thought I was being clever here and that it would be the only surviving vehicle, but sadly seems to have gone the same way as all the others! 😂

[@oscarsgarage447]

Welcome to my world... :-)

[@mholiday]

@@oscarsgarage447 Regarding the Escorts. The grey one was owned by a girl in the owners club. It got written off. The white one got burnt out. The red Escort press car which appeared in What Car you saw with A641OWC on was mine. It was knackered and I swapped the reg number onto a B reg nicer one for my girlfriend at the time who was mad on 1980’s stuff including D and M. I then sold the press car on a different A plate and a Landy Series IIA to a dealer in Church Lawton,Cheshire. The press car re-emerged in Birmingham when an Asian guy was trying to sell it as a 26k miles car when it had in fact done 126k mls so I rang him and told him. He didn’t change the advert so we contacted Autotrader who couldn’t care less. By the way these cars aren’t XR3i Convertibles. They are Escort 1.6i Convertibles …for the Mk3 Escort just 1.6i …the white one being an SE. When the Mk4 Escort came out that’s when they became XR3i Convertibles.

[@raychambers3646]

Looks like you and the cars hit a wall ! Good effort though .

[@oscarsgarage447]

Thanks 👍

[@andrewmarsland4793]

They were rotting when 5 years old

[@andrewmarsland4793]

They are all scrapped rotten

[@michaelharker8727]

Di you ever find any cars? Your getting paid off you tube to do car checks that we can all do for free 😂😂🙈💁💁

[@oscarsgarage447]

No one is forcing you to watch it... and yes, we do find some.