The Rat Catchers

[administrator]

Forgive me if this well known, but a fleeting memory crossed the aged brain cell this morning about a sixties TV series called The Rat Catchers which I enjoyed when I was about 10.  An internet search revealed very little has survived, although the opening moments of one episode do, and I was surprised to see COB6018:
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpLOX5LRBfU

[rstainer]

This is Robin Pearce's car originally owned by Robert (Bob) Burnard, thus RB 38.
   
   At 35secs you'll see an interesting driver challenge: three up in a Cobra. With sensible discretion the Pinewood director uses back-projection and a wind machine generating very un-Cobra-like mini-buffeting.
   
   RS

[marsh]

This car was also seen to good effect in the 1970 produced, but 1971 released ITC 'B' movie, The Firechasers, starring Chad Everett, an American actor who also owned a Cobra in real life, CSX2515; originally finished in Rouge Iris, but later repainted by Everett in a dark silver, carrying the California registration number PGE667.

Ordered new by Everett from Hi-Performance Motors Inc in January 1965, he kept that car until 1975 and it was later purchased by Lynn Park in 1985.
   
I believe 6018 also made an appearance in the 1973 Twentieth Century Fox production 'Digby, the biggest dog in the world', once a stalwart of childhood Christmas day mornings on ITV in the late 1970's and starring Jim Dale.