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the 200 series in tv and film..a bit of fun..i hope!Views : 349569 Replies : 280Users Viewing This Thread : |
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Aug 22nd, 2009, 19:14 | #31 |
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I can't remember if it featured the 240 per ser- but volvos were featured fleetingly in the Dudley moore film "crazy people" where he comes up with the advertising tagline "Volvo- boxy but good"
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Aug 23rd, 2009, 00:40 | #32 |
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Well one of my favourite movies Detroit Rock City about a bunch of kids driving to detroit to watch the concert in a stolen late 70's 244 (one of the kids mum's car) though it featured hubcaps from a post 86 car when that movie was supposed to be a period movie from the late 70s - early 80s. Well in the sitcom Scrubs, the two main characters drive a 240 until it burned down one day. In the movie Spy Game the target Brad Pitt and Robert Redford were about to assasinate arrived in a 1984-1986. Heaps of others but am too lazy to type now.
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Aug 28th, 2009, 21:45 | #33 |
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Back in the mid 1980's, my brother owned a chocolate brown 20DL estate which was featured in a episode of...wait for it...Boon !! I still occasionally flick thru the Sky channels featuring re-runs of Boon, in the hope I may see it again...
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Aug 29th, 2009, 07:45 | #34 |
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Hi..just before i started the thread i did a quick google just to make sure this had not been started too many times before and i did find a result where it was mentioned in boon..perhaps a little more digging will find the exact episode?..a chocolate brown DL...I would like to see that!...cheers hj.
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Sep 1st, 2009, 16:25 | #35 |
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The Hand that rocks the Cradle. Very famous 90s film where the main character, usual middle class wife with super cute kids in the back of a beige 245DL.Also starring Rebeccca De Mornay the super sexy blonde baddie trying to muscle in on the family and murder the volvo 245 heroine with asthma Aaahhh
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Sep 12th, 2009, 14:36 | #36 |
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There is a good chase in Inner Space with a 740, there is an episode of McGivvor with a 164 driving alongside a railway line and boucing like crazy over the bumps, the 1800 in the Saint of course, the Back to the Future DeLoean has a PRV engine like the 260s and even looks a bit like a 780 and there are loads of bit parts like the Volvo truck in Christine.
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Sep 13th, 2009, 09:53 | #37 |
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When I'm driving round I hardly ever see a 240 these days, the scrappage scheme must be taking its toll. However I see from the news that second hand car prices are rising 20-25% because of the reduced supply and the fact that fleets are not renewing their cars so some consolation I suppose. The other side of the pond it is a different story. I have just got back from a couple of weeks in New England and there are plenty of 240's out there still active and doing good service, it was a pleasure driving round seeing so many!
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Sep 18th, 2009, 19:15 | #38 |
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The West Wing=CJ's dad's 240.
In the West Wing Episode 'The long goodbye' from series 4. CJ returns home to give a speach at a school re-union. Her father is suffering from alzheimers, in one scene he is shown almost causing an accident in his old 240.
The scene is at about 1.02 in this montage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_J1RH2x_uU Anyone who doesn't watch the West Wing SHOULD! |
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Classic! Just how I drive!
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have a look here !
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-V...611d51bd91369e
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