Juan Manuel Fangio in... 'Coronation Street'!
#1
Posted 27 December 2012 - 16:58
Keen viewers of one of our nation's favourite soaps might have spotted this print on Lloyd's wall:
http://www.directart...00s/far0662.jpg
Let me be clear, I'm not a keen viewer nowadays, but was subject to watching it on catch up TV. Honest. For me it hasn't been the same since the demise of Vera and Jack. Everyone today seems to be a criminal, adulterer, or both.
Maybe there are other strange places where images of our heroes have surprised us. I'd hate this thread not to have at least one response, especially during our fluffy holiday season.
Rob
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#2
Posted 27 December 2012 - 17:41
Sad to say that I noticed that too!. One of the houses in Emmerdale also has historic motor sport prints on the wall. I think the house is currently occupied by two 'Geordie' women. Hope this is of some reassurance to you Rob.I realise this perhaps isn't worthy of a thread of its own, but I couldn't find an appropriate one...
Keen viewers of one of our nation's favourite soaps might have spotted this print on Lloyd's wall:
http://www.directart...00s/far0662.jpg
Let me be clear, I'm not a keen viewer nowadays, but was subject to watching it on catch up TV. Honest. For me it hasn't been the same since the demise of Vera and Jack. Everyone today seems to be a criminal, adulterer, or both.
Maybe there are other strange places where images of our heroes have surprised us. I'd hate this thread not to have at least one response, especially during our fluffy holiday season.
Rob
#3
Posted 27 December 2012 - 18:03
Edited by RCH, 27 December 2012 - 18:04.
#4
Posted 27 December 2012 - 18:06
It's Stuart McIntyre, Rod, see here http://stuartmcintyr...uk/galleryI.htmMust admit when I saw it there I thought it was one of my old mate Chris Dugan's prints.
Rob
Edited by Kingsleyrob, 27 December 2012 - 18:08.
#5
Posted 27 December 2012 - 18:16
PAR
#6
Posted 27 December 2012 - 18:21
I managed to place a Pirelli calendar in Kevin's garage many years ago ( which to be fair was not unusual sight in the 1990s )..........but someone pinched it in the March and probably sold it
PAR
Apparently one of my Nigel Mansell posters was in Kevin's garage for a while around about the same time. I never saw it as I never watch the programme
#7
Posted 27 December 2012 - 18:58
Or am I confusing this with some other incident?
#8
Posted 27 December 2012 - 19:02
David
#9
Posted 27 December 2012 - 19:12
I see you've been on the seasonal pop Simon.I believe Fangio and Luigi Fagioli both once appeared in Corrie. Trouble began in The Rovers, however, when Fagioli was ordered to hand his pint to the maestro, whose own glass had become chipped. Fagioli later stormed off the set and vowed never to appear in the soap again.
Or am I confusing this with some other incident?
The street has seen a succession of famous faces, including Parfitt and Rossi, Sir Ian Mckellen, and Peter Kaye. I can't recall any motorsport connection. I can't really imagine a tartan capped Scotsman turning up in the Rovers flogging fake Rolexes.
The closest I can recall is John Frankenheimer's Jeff Jordan turning up as Elsie Tanner's on-off love interest, sailor Bill Gregory.
But I'm sure someone else will top this.
Rob
#10
Posted 27 December 2012 - 19:25
Didn't Peter Collins once hand over his own pint to Fangio after the Argentinian complained that his tasted a bit off?I believe Fangio and Luigi Fagioli both once appeared in Corrie. Trouble began in The Rovers, however, when Fagioli was ordered to hand his pint to the maestro, whose own glass had become chipped. Fagioli later stormed off the set and vowed never to appear in the soap again.
Or am I confusing this with some other incident?
#11
Posted 27 December 2012 - 19:41
Didn't Peter Collins once hand over his own pint to Fangio after the Argentinian complained that his tasted a bit off?
I remember an episode of Corrie in 1955, Fangio was heading towards the bar to order, when a young Stirling nipped in front at the very last moment to get his order in first. Some misguided souls have since claimed that it was Juan Manuel's innate good manners that allowed the youngster to score.
#12
Posted 27 December 2012 - 20:03
#13
Posted 27 December 2012 - 21:28
I wonder: did the wholesale swapping of cars by the fifties Maserati and Ferrari sports car teams inspire some of the storylines?I realise this perhaps isn't worthy of a thread of its own, but I couldn't find an appropriate one...
Keen viewers of one of our nation's favourite soaps might have spotted this print on Lloyd's wall:
http://www.directart...00s/far0662.jpg
Let me be clear, I'm not a keen viewer nowadays, but was subject to watching it on catch up TV. Honest. For me it hasn't been the same since the demise of Vera and Jack. Everyone today seems to be a criminal, adulterer, or both.
Maybe there are other strange places where images of our heroes have surprised us. I'd hate this thread not to have at least one response, especially during our fluffy holiday season.
Rob
#14
Posted 27 December 2012 - 21:37
#15
Posted 27 December 2012 - 21:56
I remember an episode of Corrie in 1955, Fangio was heading towards the bar to order, when a young Stirling nipped in front at the very last moment to get his order in first. Some misguided souls have since claimed that it was Juan Manuel's innate good manners that allowed the youngster to score.
Similarly, a couple of years later Fangio was getting a round in when he was suddenly caught short. After spending far longer than intended in the gents (some say it was the chemical reaction of suspect pork scratchings and Newton & Ridley's finest), he was only just able to rush out and elbow his way past Collins & Hawthorn to the bar to complete his order before Annie Walker rang for last orders.
#16
Posted 27 December 2012 - 22:33
Let me be clear, I'm not a keen viewer nowadays, but was subject to watching it on catch up TV. Honest...
Rob
OR:
"Of course, I don't ever buy this sort of magazine myself, you realise - I just found this one left on the seat of the railway carriage on the way home..."
#17
Posted 27 December 2012 - 23:18
I see you've been on the seasonal pop Simon.
The street has seen a succession of famous faces, including Parfitt and Rossi, Sir Ian Mckellen, and Peter Kaye. I can't recall any motorsport connection. I can't really imagine a tartan capped Scotsman turning up in the Rovers flogging fake Rolexes.
The closest I can recall is John Frankenheimer's Jeff Jordan turning up as Elsie Tanner's on-off love interest, sailor Bill Gregory.
But I'm sure someone else will top this.
Rob
Mike Hailwood appeared once as a young, leather jacket-clad motorcyclist.
#18
Posted 28 December 2012 - 07:21
#19
Posted 28 December 2012 - 12:12
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#20
Posted 28 December 2012 - 12:41
PAR
#21
Posted 28 December 2012 - 12:50
What tyres did he use Phil??Julie Goodyear's son raced FF1600 at Oulton Park for a couple of years ....although not against Fangio or Peter Collins
PAR
Rob
#22
Posted 28 December 2012 - 13:45
#23
Posted 28 December 2012 - 16:46
Albert Arkwright used to stock Au Au Au Autosp sp sp sp sport circa 1985
Think I saw Motoring New there once as well.
#24
Posted 28 December 2012 - 16:49
#25
Posted 28 December 2012 - 16:55
Think I saw Motoring New there once as well.
M-m-m-m-motoring N-n-n-n-news?
(No offence intended towards any stutterers among us.)
#26
Posted 28 December 2012 - 17:30
#27
Posted 28 December 2012 - 18:05
I've heard it said that he sloped off to The Red Lion, Little Budworth, instead, in the certain knowledge that his evening would not be disrupted by combustible public transport.
#28
Posted 28 December 2012 - 18:18
I've heard it said that he sloped off to The Red Lion, Little Budworth...
More likely to be The Black Horse (in a yellow shield).
#29
Posted 28 December 2012 - 18:33
#30
Posted 28 December 2012 - 18:42
I've heard it said that he sloped off to The Red Lion, Little Budworth, instead, in the certain knowledge that his evening would not be disrupted by combustible public transport.
...only for the future Stig's RF84 to appear through the roof.
Who said it was far fetched
#32
Posted 28 December 2012 - 21:14
Originally posted by Vitesse2
Didn't Peter Collins once hand over his own pint to Fangio after the Argentinian complained that his tasted a bit off?
The one episode I remember...
I later heard that he was no longer around when the yards were being handed out to those deemed to have done good deeds.
#33
Posted 29 December 2012 - 11:11
Edited by Sharman, 29 December 2012 - 11:11.
#34
Posted 29 December 2012 - 12:11
#35
Posted 29 December 2012 - 12:41
He was on Corrie about 15 years ago now. He then released a truly awful music record.
And then IIRC went into politics. Only a Corrie fan would know such trivia...
PS I don't think much should be read into the Fangio print on the living-room wall - it was probably a prop left lying around in the studios. But I have enjoyed the analogies of "The Old Man" and life on the cobbled streets. Was he the Argentinian milk-float driver who smashed a front wheel against the kerb on Bessie Street, but bravely continued to the end of his round with only one wheel steering? And finished on time.
#36
Posted 29 December 2012 - 16:01
Think I saw Motoring New there once as well.
Surely that would have been Muttering News?
#37
Posted 29 December 2012 - 17:52
The character Patrick from Coupling had a motorsport themed flat and I was very jealous to see the nosecone from a Melchester Racing Tyrrell 008 on the wall above the fire place. See below.
#38
Posted 29 December 2012 - 17:55
#39
Posted 29 December 2012 - 18:46
Yes, and as a consequence Hawthorn ended up taking CAMRA's coveted Landlord of the Year title, when everybody knew that Moss served a much better pint.I distinctly recall Stirling Moss telling the Licensed Victuallers Association that Mike Hawthorn had not drunk his beer while on the wrong side of the bar...
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#40
Posted 29 December 2012 - 19:31
The Concorde wasn't far from there ........apparently. Not to mention Mo , of course..Or The Trident in Burntwood perhaps ?
Edited by cyrilmac, 29 December 2012 - 19:34.