Hi i'm lee Allen..who owned F340.....I had the original Bill of sale for the car for £8800 with the reg F340CCL fro a Garage in Norfolk , all the paperwork went with the car , i sold it to a guy from Sandbach in cheshire due to a work accident ....I can without a doubt confirm it is F340CCL.....Richards car was also a 213SE ...ironically i live ten minutes from the house used as the bucket residents Any think else you need feel free to ask

They were two different Rovers used for Keeping Up Appearances. One was an SE with electric front windows and wood trim, which can be seen in some episodes, and the other was a stand S spec. It's worth rewarching to spot the differences.

Last week i had a flu and was off school for 4 days, i binge watched all your wheeler dealer videos and i didnt get bored watching a single one

Just to add to the madness of looking up this car. I actually rented the film company a Blue Rover as the one in the series had an accident, and they needed one quickly. I didn’t have a blue Rover in my inventory, so I searched, and found one at a local home in Wimbledon. The owner allowed us to rent the car from him, and I subsequently rented it to the production company dealing with the Keeping Up Appearances filming.

Bloke did the same thing with the "Italian job" minis. He got 3 minis of same model and colours then bought the reg numbers as used in the film off DVLA.

Elizabeths Metro is also an iconic car. And the DS from Coupling. I found the hearse from KUA on an online aucton a few years ago when I was wathcing the episode.

D541EFL is a DVLA auction issue, sold in January 2023 for £560. You can request any previously unissued mark for inclusion in a future DVLA auction, which is clearly what some fan has done, and transferred it to a formerly anonymous Rover.

2:21 Although D322 EFL may well have been the last number before change of prefix to E, there were a number of cars that will have been registered with a D plate after the prefix change. When British Forces personnel who had been serving overseas, e.g. West Germany, returned to UK, they would register the car with DVLA when importing the vehicle. DVLA would allocate an appropriate registration number to the year of manufacture of the vehicle. I have no idea if this is the case for the Hyacinth car but there is a possibility that D541 EFL was a genuine registration.

Cracking idea these videos I'm addicted love Sunday mornings

The E reg was used in one episode when Daddy took the car and raced off. It had its neck rung by a stunt driver around the old airfield near Guildford (a lot on the country roads were there) Have you looked into Jerry’s Volvo from ‘The Good Life’ that was in ‘Survivers’

Love these videos, keep up the good work

Apparently the backup rover now lives in Northampton and is still on the road

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It is possible, if it hasnt been registered, to request a specific registration plate as a personalised reg from DVLA. It could be possible that it wasnt regustered back in 87, but the current owner managed to get D541EFL registered as a personalised registration and attach it to this car.

So D541EFL actually became a genuine numberplate? Did you also mind the sheep, the pedestrian on the road when looking for this?

Interesting video thank you. I put my car details into My Carcheck and it tells me it's a DSG but it's actually manual, so it's not foolproof 😊

What about doing some of the car s.o.s cars to see where they are enjoying wheeler dealer series

Enjoying your videos, interesting investigations. Do you remember the sitcom Bread, I was watching it recently and wondered what happened to Joey’s Jag or Jacks old Mk1 Transit.

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The numberplate D541 EFL was never issued in the eighties as you rightly say, However someone requested the DVLA to send it to auction and issue it. The number was sold at the DVLA auction in January of 2023 for the princely sum of £560. They probably requested it as they already owned the correct vehicle of the right age. Put them both together and checking the details it now sits on an April 1989 1400 Rover in blue which was taxed for a year in April 2023 and MOTed in July of this year. So it is probably not the original vehicle but certainly looks like it!

The first one was wrote of while filming

Can you do victor meldrews Honda ballade from one foot in the grave

I'd like to know what happened to the cortina. Especially interesting would be the Honda from one foot in the grave, they mocked that car lots, I wonder how Honda felt about that.

The prefix change is inaccurate as there are quite a few sierras in the 500 range, including a very special car rallied by all 3 McRae racers D541 UVW. For reference 542 is a road car the last I checked, so EFL may have been a genuine plated vehicle IF the dvla initial first registration data still exists.

heres one for you mate. Honda accord?(i think) Metronomy video clip Heartbreaker B149CGN? (im really enjoying you videos btw.. excellent viewing!)

Maybe a long shot but could the 28 k be sold for a good case like a charity that would sound possible maybe greets from Holland 🇳🇱

I like your Cockney English. So you are from London? By the way, good story!

oscar would you be able to attempt to track down the British Layland cars that was used in a top gear special ? Rover sd1 Triumph dolomite sprint Austin princess

Just to throw a spanner in the works but im pretty sure i saw the same car in a few episodes of ‘one foot in the grave’?

am I going nuts or does that rover look like a mid to late 80's honda civic, also I gotta say is it possible that their was two cars used, as some of the close up shots they had of it showed it had no windshield when they had it on the back of a truck, a trick for filming, that is sometimes known as the mic rig truck and then it did for the driving scenes, as maybe one was a soundcar that was driven on the back of the truck with a dummy plate so no one would give them trouble and the other was just a normal car that they used for when they had to drive and move the thing around, and they rigged up a dummy plate, so no one would give them trouble if they had to use either for a shot I mean even the 83 Quattro from ashes to ashes, was using a J viv plate that was registered to a Datsun, maybe even that 120 Y from that old british leeland challenge which apparenty was owned by james may and usually theirs tell tale signs of film production on a car, from odd holes, to downright marks from where the camera mounts sat and the cars would have marks and registration on them, like check who owned the vins, if it shows up to a BBC1 film company, you know its legit although I must say unlike the quattro and the good inspector morses jaguar, I cant say I'm particularlly enthused about Hyacyne Buckets old rover like this lol

What about the battered Ford Cortina VSD389S used by Hyacinth's scruffy brother in law Onslow.

I've checked and the car is taxed and mot'd on the d plate im not shure if the plate could of been changed to a f as far as i know you can't use plates that will make the car look newer than the year it was registered

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Hyacinth would have been impressed with the mystery

How about the rover from radio on 1979 by david bowie it cant still be at the quarry where the film finished 😂😂