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Where is world’s most famous Stag?
Just when the sad news of the passing of Christopher Lee reached us last month, we were thinking: What Would Dracula Drive? The answer, as so often, was provided by our friends from Google who were able to tell that a pre-production, fashionably mustard yellow Triumph Stag was used as means of transport in ‘Dracula a.d. 1972’: a Hammer horror flick of – you guessed it – 1972, depicting the late great Lee once more as the Master of Macabre. The Triumph in question, registered ‘RVC 435H’, turned out to be known by the DVLA, too. Untaxed since 1999 but at least in their database.
But what’s more: the great Lee wasn’t the only actor having driven it. The yellow Stag, no doubt a works demonstrator, was used in a whole range of early 1970s television series and films. From The Benny Hill Show to The Sweeney (now in brown) and from The Professionals to Bond himself in Diamonds are Forever (above). Some sources say it went to a museum in Miami, but others say it’s not there anymore. Who knows more?
Words Jeroen Booij. Picture courtesy IMDB.
Publié:
lundi août 17th, 2020
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DAN WALSH
21 Mars 2022, 11:49
I have one, but not that one, would love to buy it!!!!! Who wouldn't.
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Peter Robinson
16 Août 2020, 21:36
The James Bond car was in the Dezer museum in Florida and was moved to Orlando when the Dezer Collection was relocated. Rumours have it that it was sold (it certainly was for sale) but nobody seems to know who bought it or whether it is still with Dezer.
The car was a works press car but it was not the car which is seen in all the film shots of a Stag as there were 11 similarly numbered cars which were loaned out. The Bond car was RVC 435H whereas the brown car which appears in the Sweeney and in The Professionals was RVC 425H. RVC 425H appears in vartious film and TV roles in white, yellow and brown. The Dracula Ad 1972 car was badged as RVC 425H but may well have actually been RVC 435H 'in drag' - it depends on whether you see the seats as being brown (RVC 435H) or red (RVC 425H). My own observations lead me to believe that it is RVC 425H. RVC 425H was stolen in London in 1989 and has not been seen since.
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The car was a works press car but it was not the car which is seen in all the film shots of a Stag as there were 11 similarly numbered cars which were loaned out. The Bond car was RVC 435H whereas the brown car which appears in the Sweeney and in The Professionals was RVC 425H. RVC 425H appears in vartious film and TV roles in white, yellow and brown. The Dracula Ad 1972 car was badged as RVC 425H but may well have actually been RVC 435H 'in drag' - it depends on whether you see the seats as being brown (RVC 435H) or red (RVC 425H). My own observations lead me to believe that it is RVC 425H. RVC 425H was stolen in London in 1989 and has not been seen since.