In one episode of the show, the local policeman says to Lady P "Oh, it's you, M'Lady. I thought I recognised the car." With those powers of observation he should have been a detective instead of just a plod on the beat.

Not a problem for Regan and Carter……I could see Parker being told to get his trousers on…….

My thoughts precisely.

I mean perhaps if you find those hilarious Pink Lincoln Town car Limousines used for Hen parties

Yes pink 6 wheel Rollers were very common is those FAB times.

sounded like a cement mixer

Well lady Penelope always did like a bit of rough

The changing number plate is perfect when you want to blend in

And which take half an hour to fully open! Blimey, if Lady Penelope had to get out in a hurry for a wee, Parker would be searching for a mop!! :)

XD XD XD

...And beyond. I was born in '78 and both 'Blue Peter' and 'Thunderbirds' were still much loved well into the 1980s and after. :) Although sadly ('tho BP is still, just about, going), it is now somewhat of a bygone era.

And Australia

Thunderbirds was on Irish kids TV well into the nineties! FAB Scott!

@@peterlarkin762 In the UK too. After rattling around on the odd ITV region during the 1980s, it had a huge revival when BBC Two ran it on Friday evenings (alongside classic 'Doctor Who') in the early 1990s - with the classic tie-in 'Blue Peter' Tracey Island make, and several more revivals after that.

When the announcer said that it's five-to-five I expected someone to shout CRACKERJACK!

@@pepwaverley2185 Good call: I hadn't noticed as it had been a while since I had seen the TV series, but you're right of course.

Pervert

Innocence is the thing. Everything nowadays and for the past couple of decades (says an oldie like me born in the late '70s, ahem!!) seems to have need for such attitude and aggression, even the stuff aimed towards children. Even with something like FAB1's crime fighting skills, pretend machine guns et al, it was all innocence and knowing, harmless make-believe fun. Innocence and imagination were the two things that fuelled our young lives.

I agree, life was literally a Garden of Eden with nothing bad ever happening before the 70's completely ruined everything.

@@scottabc72 Damn those 1970s.

Lovely story ♥️

Me too. It was at British car auctions in Frimley. My dad grabbed me out of bed as a kid to,go and sit in It!

I believe the bloke who owned it lived in Portslade. I encountered it at an event at Hove Lagoon but I don't remember if I got to go inside. I was only about 5!

Hove’ actually, Parker !

It was on display at hove lagoon along with chitty chitty bang bang and my sister and I had our photograph taken sitting in chitty chitty bang bang wish I still had that photo

Aah but it could also change colour to Peppermint blue or Daffodil yellow. Just try finding it then!

Pink was such a common colour on almost every family car in the sixties, or was it black, can’t remember now. 🥴

@@bokhans I think dull colours were the order of the day until the swinging 60s came along when anything went.

Made me laugh also how long it takes for the flippin' thing to actually revolve around, by which time any pursuer would have had ample time to get a good look and job down the licence plate number! :) Great nostalgia though, halcyon days.

The car itself wasn't up to much as a vehicle. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were supposed to arrive at the premier of "Thunderbirds Are Go" in it. But it broke down halfway and they had to get a taxi. Despite fully supporting FAB 1 in the TV series, Rolls Royce took a severe dislike to the real life car and tried on several occasions to buy it so that they could destroy it.

But can I ask you what you want your grand kids to do? Do you expect them to worship the technology and say thank you to it every day.

It took 3 miles of wiring to operate those doors😅

@@treatb09 Battery to switch, switch to motor, there we go 10 feet.

Wow,you don’t know how lucky you were!

I've seen it at one of the motoring museums , I can't remember if it was Gaydon or Beuleau though... come to think of it the car may of been from the 1990's Thunderbirds movie. I had a couple of doobies that day so memories are a little blurry...

@@olatron 😁

They tried n the 2004 Movie. So sad they never went for a series after the film. I thought the did a very good job of bringing Thunderbirds to life.

...And Noakey's nearly get tangled as he gets out of FAB1!

You probably saw it being taken up to The Cars of the Stars museum in Keswick. Most of the collection is now in Miami.

...And even that would probably be on a generous downhill slope. :D

It's the real FAB 1 that could do 150mph, this would also be impossible to handle with 4 wheel steering.

@@dogwalker666 The Tyrrell P34 F1 racecar and the Panther Six sportscar handled fine with 4 wheel steering

@@MarkGelderland pre computer? I know the 8 wheel steer cranes are stuffed if the computer fails.

@@dogwalker666 It was based on a production vehicle chassis: A shortened tour-bus chassis in fact. It would have handled just fine.

0-150mph in 3 weeks!

I was thinking that. It was probably a Ford Essex V6, which was OK, but even in Capri that would have weighed half what FAB1 weighed, it didn't do 150 mph.

It'll take some braking to stop that.

@@Tmuk2 Downhill.

Ya the same

Also FAB 1 in the 2004 Movie. So sad they never went for a series after the film. I thought the did a very good job of bringing Thunderbirds to life, I like the car and the actors playing lady Penelope and Parker.

I believe you, not only because of the finer details you have explained, but also because Godfrey Davis sounds like the name of a car dealership in 1970. Thanks for sharing your memories.

Godfrey Davis, Yes remember them well,we got a mk2 Escort from there in 1975,was a great show room,still remember the showroom,large glass windows and back then a white Granada was on display on drive on ramps,still got the brochure from those days,best wishes.

the machine gun barrel should be allowed to shoot red beans at least, handy during road rage incidents

I knew Godfrey Davis as a car hire company, I didn’t know they sold cars as well.

@@AtheistOrphan, Yes the Godfrey Davis site in Neasden was a fair size,think part of the land was sold and that's where McDonalds is now,they gave me some old promotional posters,an orange Escort Sport mk2,,Red Cortina mk3,Blue Granada Ghia mk1,wish I still had the posters but anyhow have fond memories of them.

They used American accents to sell it to the Yank TV networks.

@@alexnelson9512 I don’t have a problem believing that. Although, as a born and bred Yank, I find the voice actors doing that a DEFINITE downgrade! I’d rather listen to you guys for the rest of my life‼️👍🏻🇬🇧

@@greeneyedwarlock882 It certainly helped to get around the language barrier.

Yes, at the time British product was hard to sell to the U.S. That is one of the reasons why the programme revolved around an American family with the token pucker English accent of Lady P thrown in, which was, I'm sure, how most Americans believed English people spoke (at that time). I think the Beatles helped to break that mold. After the so called "British Invasion" we could do no wrong. I was 8 when Thunderbirds came to my tiny little black and white TV set standing in the corner of the front room in our terraced house back in 1965. It was such a revelation. I can remember the pilot episode "Trapped In The Sky" vividly. For the next 12 months or so while the series was on air, the world of Thunderbirds dominated mine and my friends' lives. I used to think "how did they do that?" when refineries were being blown up or the Hood's car burst into flames down an embankment after feeling the wrath of FAB 1..... and I am still asking that question today when I watch the same scenes again nearly 60 years later. Thunderbirds remains to this day my favourite TV programme.

Lady Penelope was never one to forego style for convenience.

I had a 2 ton Caddy back in the 1990's - 6 L.. It felt more like a big boat. However one night it was stolen just as I looked out the front room window. A huge cloud of tyre smoke and gone in an instant !.. I never thought it could move so fast !. ( it was found 2 weeks later with only a broken window & hot wired )

@@paulfogarty7724 My ideal anti theft device would be an automatic deploying hypodermic syringe that would inject nitric acid, through the seat, into the thief's testicles.

Now you mention it, I vaguely remember seeing it there, circa 2000 (I'd traipsed halfway up the country with a friend to see 'The A-Team' van and 'KITT' out of 'Knight Rider'!). Though I don't believe it was on display "properly" - possibly it was midway through renovation. We had got chatting with the museum owner who showed us around, including several cars that weren't currently on display, and have a feeling FAB1 was one of them. Didn't even have a digital camera back then, so no photos to remind us of the trip!!

@@pjgathergood6987 Thanks, It was amazing that all those cars were in not much more than a tin shed in Keswick, I tell people about it now, and I don't think they believe me. Maybe one day they will return from the UK?

Bad guy 1: What car are we looking for anyways? Bad guy 2: A 22 foot long pink Rolls-Royce, with a bubble canopy and six wheels. Ya can’t miss it. Bad guy 1: What’s the registration plate though Knuckles? Bad guy 2: F A B 1. That’s the number one, not O N E. Bad guy 1: Geez Knuckles, you’re really thorough. You think of everything Pal! You seem to have it all covered, so I’ll ask; who owns this cockamamey ride, then? Bad guy 2: We looked into that as well. It’s owned by some broad; name of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. She must be some Dame to be driving’ around in a car like that. Bad guy 1: Look out Knuckles, I think it’s coming! Get the Bazooka ready. Oh, hang on - there’s some guy in a grey suit behind the wheel. Looks like that guy outta that band. You know, with those brothers. They fell out. What was it? …. Bad guy 2: Oasis? Bad guy 1: Yeah, that’s them Knuckles! It looks like that guy in Oasis. I’ll just put the binoculars on the licence plate. I R 1. Bad guy 2: You sure about that? Bad guy 1: See for yourself Knuckles - it’s not the car we’re after. Bad guy 2: You’re right. Geez - what are the chances of two cars like that driving’ this way today? Guess I better put the bazooka away and keep on waitin’ then! [cuts to car interior] Parker: It h’appears that we have yet again h’evaded an h’attack m’Lady. Lady P: Very good Parker. I think we can change the number plate back to normal now, don’t you? I much prefer FAB 1. Parker: Yes m’Lady! My pleasure.

Me too 😆

McLaren thought so too.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Also now so does Tesla in its Semi truck

They were very supportive of the TV car. But they took a severe dislike to the full sized car. It was notoriously unreliable and RR made several attempts to buy it to destroy it. Eventually it was found by a dentist who collected film and TV vehicles. It was in a barn and in a very poor state. He bought it, renovated it and installed it in his "Cars of the Stars" museum in Keswick. He had one of the 5 Batmobiles used in the sixties TV series, the Munster's car, the Back to the Future De Lorean and KITT among many others. Eventually the museum closed and the contents were sold to a car museum in Florida. As I found out when I made a return there. The museum had a sign in the window saying it had moved to Miami. Like those signs in a shop window saying "We've moved around the corner" worded as if you could just pop on the bus to Miami to visit it.

That's exactly what I was thinking 🤣🤣🤣

the chaser: "hey, wait! that's the wrong car!"

@@germanhernandezcarrera5257 🤣🤣🤣

AFAIK it's in the Dezer Car Museum in Miami

@@kaledmasterme thanks 👍

If I recall correctly, the car (or if not, an identical replica) was still doing the rounds about a decade or so ago, appearing at various events and such. Not sure of it's current condition; if it is still about imagine it's well past overdue for a full renovation. But hope it's still out there somewhere.

I read somewhere years ago it was some kind of lorry chassis so bedford would tally with what I believe,I actually saw this vehicle in the ice stadium car park at Nottingham a long time ago,I was at school when I saw it,I'm 59 now but I suppose it's the kind of thing you don't forget especially if you're a fan

Yes. This car could just blend in with all the traffic if you change the plates.

And small enough to fit in the boot, it even left a little bit of room for some luggage.

yea, nobody is gonna notice a six wheeled 22 foot long rolls royce :troll

Val Singleton was said to be a lesbian - interesting thought.

@@alexnelson9512 She was rumoured to be the lesbian lover of Joan Armatrading but denies this. I saw one interview when she said she had been sharing men's beds since 1959 or something, which ruined my virginal image of her, I can tell you, especially as I was not one of the lucky ones.

Just read on Wikipedia that she had a brief affair with Peter Purves.

@@pepwaverley2185 Why be so triggered?

@@craiggerrard5117 Maybe I'm wrong, but she was never married, so perhaps...

Probably scrapped.

@@fantomandjupiterx864 I hope not but you're probably right.

In storage at the Dezer car museum in Miami!

I was just praying Peter wouldn't press the wrong button and set the machine guns off as Noaksey was walking in front of the car!! :)

The Car of the Future - Yesterday!

door hatch opening sounds like jcb excavator in operation 😜👌

It was basically a cut-down coach like on The Italian Job.

@@fidelcatsro6948 A VERY old JCB excavator at that!

Yes, the revolving number plate seems pretty pointless.. “There’s the massive, pink Rolls Royce with a Perspex dome that we’re all looking for! …Hang on, the reg plate doesn’t say FAB 1. So I’ll just let it go…”

I notice that while it has the Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament, it doesn't have the RR badge. `Rolls-Royce were unimpressed by the car and made several attempts to buy it and have it destroyed': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB_1#Replica_cars

Just posted on another comment, but I can remember seeing it there too circa 1999/2000, though recall it wasn't on display "properly" at that time, possibly was "out back" for a some sort of minor renovation. For a car that was designed to tour on promotional events, it had had quite a hard life from wear and tear of adoring young fans. If memory serves (possibly not), the car has undergone a more fully renovation in more recent years, possibly from it's current private owner.

I bought a junked one on EBay and restored it...took a while to get to Sydney ..

@@andrewpotter1206 Wow - did you manage to get the rockets to fire? The front one fired if you opened the RR-grille downwards and pressed down on the front suspension. The rocket was white with small flight fins and a red rubber nosecone. The rear lights were also small red (plastic) rockets about 2 cm long which fired (by spring loading as in a ballpoint pen) by pressing down on the rear suspension. Only then do you truly own a Lady Penelope Rolls-Royce!

@@1258-Eckhart yep you press down on the rear suspension to fire them I cleaned up the bits in the chassis and got them springy again kinda tricky sliding bits and springs ...but doable .

@@1258-Eckhart yep you press down on the rear suspension to fire them I cleaned up the bits in the chassis and got them springy again kinda tricky sliding bits and springs ...but doable .

I had one of those diecast toys too, it was made by Dinky Toys, which had the license for all the Gerry Anderson shows. I had a Spectrum Pusuit Vehicle, FAB 1, a SHADO Tank, a UFO Interceptor (green), Thunderbird 2 (with Thunderbird 4), and all 3 Space:1999 Eagles (green, white, and blue). Dinky had problems making these toys in the right colors.

They didn't ask permission! RR actually tried to have it scrapped!

yes,it does

They made more than one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6hyZbRksrK3hps.html

I believe it was built by Rolls-Royce apprentices using some original parts so it actually was a Rolls. Unlike the later version made for "That Movie".

@@AbelMcTalisker No. I don't know where you got that from, but the car is basically just a bus underneath the bodywork. Rolls Royce wanted nothing to do with it and have made attempts to have the car destroyed. Most of the relevant details of how the car came to exist are a simple google search away. Please don't spread nonsense around.

apparently it's the Bus motor

my proton 1.6 making 120hp today!

Definitely more powerful if it can get to 150 mph

Maybe one of only two things that have come to fruition; televisions in cars aren't uncommon (or IMO, a needless luxury), and currently even more topical as, with self-driving cars supposedly on the increase, the highway code is being reconsidered to allow non-driving drivers(!) to watch TV as they travel.

If only we all had machine guns in our radiators