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This car crashed into me twice ! I followed it on my way home being filmed by a camera crew that were in a van in front I also noticed there were two GoPros on the dash facing the occupants. At this point I thought ( it hurt really badly) It looks like Antiques road trip He then proceeded to roll backwards into me twice :(:(. Luckily my car is a 20 year old total banger and all was fixed with a cable Tye. It turned out it was Antiques road trip !

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...and... How did theirs come off the bumpers won't protect it much and the height will be different to modern cars (even 20 year old ones)
 
Nice little cars - we had a 1960s MkIII pre-children.
 
Why were you driving so close to it? And why didn't you learn from the first incident?
 
You cannot see it too well but in did dent the left hand rear of their/someone they had hired it offs car, It happened on a sharp left hand bend with a junction to the right , the camera van turned and they had to stop, I stopped about 20 foot behind because doing so left me visable to people approaching the bend behind me ( save me getting rear ended) As he pulled away he just shot towards me as he had put it in reverse rather than first I couldn't move back due to a car at the rear of me and there was a loud crunch. He managed to get around the bend and I drove in behind him to access the damage he then did exactly the same again ! I think if my car hadn't been there he would have ended up in the main road with a possible bad accident. I got out and he told me he couldn't get out as the hand brake didn't work and first was so close to 1st that he couldn't tell the difference ! I then pointed out he had water leaking all the way down the road and he said yes it does that when it gets hot ! And I thought my car was a banger ! The I'm guessing production manager swapped details with me as he could see my bumper had dropped but when I got home I realized the bottom plastic mount was broken and was easily fixable. The driver was not the antiques expert but rather the guy who goes around looking for things and then asks the experts opinion , I didn't recognize either of them. I did think of making a claim saying the impact had caused me to lose all my photography skills but then thought they may look at my previous efforts and start laughing :(:(:(
 
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Maybe we'll see you in a future episode :LOL:
 
I always thought my good looks were wasted !
 
It's awful sitting there watching a car come towards you so I'm glad that not too much damage was done.

Two girls in a hatch back once did the same to me years ago, twice, and they laughed about it. They really laughed not a forced or nervous laugh. I thought it was far from funny and them, complete idiots.
 
I'd be reporting them to the police. Driving without due care and driving an unroadworthy vehicle. Wouldn't put up with that. Tv or not. They shouldn't have been allowed out on the roads if they couldn't tell first and reverse apart either.
 
Well the episode of Antiques Roadshow is on now on BBC 2. :)
 
BADGER.BRAD said:
I think if my car hadn't been there he would have ended up in the main road with a possible bad accident. I got out and he told me he couldn't get out as the hand brake didn't work and first was so close to 1st that he couldn't tell the difference !
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I'd have called the police. It sounds as if neither the car nor the driver was fit to be on the road.
 
Skipping through it on iplayer they do use the car quite a bit but don't show it crashing into anyone.
I am teh disappoint.
The people apparently driving it don't look like in your shot they probably cheat quite a lot with exteriors and drone footage showing it with what ought to be a more a capable driver [oops]
 
The two in the car look like the two non-experts on the show to me, definitely.
 
I have found that TV people tend to get a bit above themselves sometimes. I used to live in Maidenhead and they were always doing some sort of filming there and I have seen their security telling people out shopping where they could and couldn't go. Never happened to me but I'd probably have told them to get stuffed as they don't own the place (although they like to think they do).
 
ShinySideUp said:
I have found that TV people tend to get a bit above themselves sometimes. I used to live in Maidenhead and they were always doing some sort of filming there and I have seen their security telling people out shopping where they could and couldn't go. Never happened to me but I'd probably have told them to get stuffed as they don't own the place (although they like to think they do).
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Agreed. We used to have a factory and studio in an old part of Bradford (Little Germany). One Sunday morning someone broke into it, we were notified via the burglar alarm system and I drove there, only to be told by someone in charge of a TV film crew that our alarm had stopped them filming and that we had to turn it off straight away and move my car away.

I pointed out that I didn't care about their filming, did care about my own business and people breaking into it and would move my car when I was done. The strange thing was that the woman simply didn't understand that anyone could possibly care about anything other than their filming . . .
 
They filmed Heartbeat near us at first it was a novelty but it went on for several series which generated some problems.
At first they often paid locals to walk about in background as extras and they would have minor celebrities in it once in a while.
My sister got her kitchen redecorated as they wanted the location but it had to look 60s then they put it back to 'now' well 1990s then.
She liked Jason Durr until he was in her kitchen and seemed sulky and aloof
 
Port Isaac in Cornwall is about 50 minutes drive away from me on the North coast. They film Doc Martin there and I believe the locals are heartily pee'd off with it now as it has gone on for years. I also think the tourists turn up expecting Martin Clunes to be practicing medicine there.
 
Many years ago, we used to get the same down on the Quay in Exeter, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Onedin Line cast. Bit of a pain for us when we popped along the coast to Lyme Regis when they were filming Ammonite a couple of years ago - the production took over a LOT of the parking in the town.
 
I got shouted at by Nick Knowles for parking my van in a post office car park just outside Salisbury years ago.

I didn't even notice him or the film crew, I was just trying to buy my car tax.

Apparently my van ruined the idilic village post office shot they were trying to get.
 
TCR4x4 said:
I got shouted at by Nick Knowles for parking my van in a post office car park just outside Salisbury years ago.

I didn't even notice him or the film crew, I was just trying to buy my car tax.

Apparently my van ruined the idilic village post office shot they were trying to get.
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Did your van have SKY written all over it?! :)
 
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