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Daisy wrote:Thanks Anita... that sort of makes sense now.... I somehow assumed it was a reference to Richard Kent!

A bit like the confusion between Richard Kent and Dick Kirrin in the story!

Anyway, over to Dick Kirrin for the next quotation/question!

Right and cheers.

Now, the Bentley from the book was replaced by a... ?
Name Make, Model, Trimline, Engine and Registration, please?
This is one for those wanting to check whether the car really featured in The Sweeny.

This is a post by Petermax so I think I was correct.
» 06 Apr 2008, 21:56

Wolfgang wrote:
I might be wrong, but the silver Ford that Uncle Quentin and Rogers used to drive looks like a Ford Cortina Mark IV ............. I personally wonder why so many Fords were featured in this series. Was Ford a sponsor?


Wolfgang, you are absolutely correct, the Quentinmobile was indeed a Ford Cortina Estate. Sadly, none of the Fords featured in the series have survived. As regards Ford being a sponsor, this was unlikely due to very strict advertising laws on the use of brand names on television. (blatant product placement) It is more likely that the company supplying the vehicles to Southern Television had a fleet contract with Ford. Some of the vehicles used in the Five series also appeared in The Sweeney.
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Dick Kirrin wrote:Right and cheers.

Now, the Bentley from the book was replaced by a... ?
Name Make, Model, Trimline, Engine and Registration, please?
This is one for those wanting to check whether the car really featured in The Sweeny.

Blue Ford Granada MkII 4door (VHK_464S).

As for engine, it might be 2.8i GLS or S. All we seem to know is that the 2.8i S was used in THE SWEENEY. All we mostly talk about with regards to FAMOUS FIVE is Quentin Kirrin's silver Ford Cortina MkIV Estate (PNO_565R), since "deceased".

The answer is correct enough for me. However, I think it is the 2.3l V6 not the 2.8. And I am quite sure it is a GL.

Not sure the series is what made old Dick a Mondeo man... as I happen to drive a grey Mondeo estate - grandson of the Cortina which may have had a fling with the Granada.


Cheers

Dick Kirrin

I thank "Dick Kirrin" for forgiving my limited knowledge of car engines!

For the record, the Ford Taunus/Cortina was succeeded by the Ford Sierra, which itself was succeeded by the Ford Mondeo, which we in Canada briefly knew as the Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique from 1994-2000 and since 2013 as the Ford Fusion....


Now, for the next quote (who said it, what episode, etc):

"Go tell that to the rabbits!"

Hmm...

I can kind of remember the scene (I think!).

Was it Julian in Five On a Hike Together?

Julian, yes, but not "Hike".

Anyone else?

Remember our last quote?

daanton wrote:

"Go tell that to the rabbits!"

It was Julian, in "Five on Finniston Farm", responding to Junior Henning, who had told him, D,A,G and Harry & Harriet that the area of the farm they were digging was now owned, in rights, by his father, Mr Henning, the American antiquarian profiteer.



Oh, sorry, I thought you were still playing.

Is that last sentence a quote?

Georgina wrote:p. s Great idea for a quiz!!


Q: who said this:-


"My great grandfather told me before he died"
?

A: I think someone from 'The Famous Five' would be I'm sorry to say this thinking George. I don't know guessing and remembering back in the book of 'Five On A Treasure Island'. and Gosh, I was only very shy to respond. Hi anyway.

Welcome, Hayley, but I think you've got onto an old page. Nobody has played this game for ages so we haven't got a quotation to identify at the moment.

Well, then, let's see if Hayley can figure this one out:


Now then.... who said the following, and to whom, and in which episode?

"I'd rather have a dog like Timmy than _ _______ ____ ____ any day!"

Well, I thought I'd revitaliz/se this game somehow, since our last guesser has not been seen since....

daanton wrote: Now then.... who said the following, and to whom, and in which episode?

"I'd rather have a dog like Timmy than _ _______ ____ ____ any day!"

A dog like tinker?