Criminal's Amazing Seized Film Car Collection Heads to Auction

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Criminal's Amazing Seized Film Car Collection Heads to Auction

This article was published by Joe Donaldson (@Joey D) on October 25th, 2017 in the Car Culture category.

 

[witham]

"Del Ray’s Reliant Regal from Only Fools Have Horses."

Wait what?! Pretty sure that's not right

 

[Andyc709292]

Derek Trotter. Of Trotters Independent Trading - New York, Paris, Peckham. AKA Del Boy



... and Rodney

 

[TenEightyOne]

This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

Criminal's Amazing Seized Film Car Collection Heads to Auction

This article was published by Joe Donaldson (@Joey D) on October 25th, 2017 in the Car Culture category.

Del Boy, not Del Ray... they didn't drive a standard Reliant Regal, they drove a Reliant Regal Supervan III (different enough to be worth pointing out) and there was no film, only a pair of feature episodes shot on film (of which To Hull and Back is the best).

The Back to the Future car is the only one being sold with "screen time" provenance so it's not really a film car collection, it's a collection of mad arcade games, terrible kit cars, insane stuff that drug dealers like and one film car (although I'd have Harry Hill's motorised cone).

 

[Robin]

I have to say that's one of the worst car collections ever

 

[HarVee]

It's only criminal because they didn't pay 7.9 million of that 8 million in taxes.

 

[BMfan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast

capital and largest city of Northern Ireland

 

[CConspicuous]

Still baffles me that these guys were able to get hold of a government owned nuclear bunker for growing weed.

 

[shoemaker]

A damn shame that all that weed has gone.....however thats a very quirky selection of cars to buy with your cash, perhaps they were simply laundering the cash through rare and special cars that would fetch a big price one day.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Still baffles me that these guys were able to get hold of a government owned nuclear bunker for growing weed.

Ex-government, to be clear. In fairness the article doesn't say it's government owned. There are lots of them dotted around the UK and Europe as a hangover from the Cold War.

 

[TheCracker]

perhaps they were simply laundering the cash through rare and special cars that would fetch a big price one day.

Back to the Future II BMW aside, the rest are either really bad kitcar/replicas or replicas of vehicles that appeared in film or on TV and probably aren't worth half of what they cost to buy.

Aside from some rare video game cabinets, the only other stuff of value in the collection are watches and some terrible gaudy jewellery that will be worth more melted down.

They may as well of marketed the auction as the 'worlds largest collection of replica tat'.

 

[Smokey Nismo]

They're not even proper criminals if they can only get replicas.

 

[eiriksmil]

This collection proves why you shouldn't be smoking your own ****.

 

[TheCracker]

This collection proves why you shouldn't be smoking your own ****.

That's the impression i got from it. It's a collection born of impeded cognitive ability.