Bertie Wooster's Sports Car

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Fri 23 Oct 2009 08:43
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - bintang
Can anyone identify for me Bertie's gorgeous car, featured in the morning ITV3
broadcasts of the "Jeeves and Wooster" series?
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 08:51
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Harmattan
Apparently an Aston Martin 1.5 litre although I had thought it was a Lagonda as per Capt. Hastings in Poirot.

Edited by Harmattan on 23/10/2009 at 08:53

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Fri 23 Oct 2009 10:18
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - bintang
Seems a small engine for such a large car.
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 10:21
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - FotheringtonThomas
Of the age. Conditions, speeds, and development were rather different.
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 20:11
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Manatee
Of the age. Conditions speeds and development were rather different.


Agreed. A couple of weeks ago I had a weekend away travelling there and back in a Lagonda 2 litre High Chassis. Nominally 60bhp but scarily fast - narrow tyres, 80 year old wire wheels, no seat belts, plate glass windscreen 9" from my nose - marvellous. Touched 60 at times.

From what I can find googling, the 30s 1.5 litre Astons typically had more power than the 2 litre Lagondas and were certainly lighter. The Lagonda 2 litre is a heavy machine and the engine block looks like something out of a ship.
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 18:07
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - JH
With a silver cow jug as a bonnet mascot? (maybe not this episode). :-)

JH
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 21:09
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Alby Back
I wonder what a 21st century "Bertie" would drive ? After all, his "Jeeves" wouldn't let him have anything too "footballerish" would he ?
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 23:08
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - bathtub tom
>>I wonder what a 21st century "Bertie" would drive ?

Bristol?
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 23:14
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Alby Back
Funnily enough I was thinking of Bristols.
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Fri 23 Oct 2009 23:43
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Number_Cruncher
>>Funnily enough I was thinking of Bristols.

I think I average about 7 times per minute

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Sat 24 Oct 2009 00:33
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - 1400ted
Only 7 ? I think you boobed there !

Ted
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Sat 24 Oct 2009 03:20
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Lud
Bristols (with an uppercase B, chaps) are a bit mature for Bertie Wooster. One has to remember he is a young man, middle twenties really.

One wouldn't want him driving anything common like a Golf or MX5 either. Nearest thing to a gent's two-seater these days is probably a Morgan. Plus 8 I suppose. Or perhaps a TVR.

Those early thirties Aston Martins are very fine looking cars. There was a garage that specialised in them near my last school in the mid-fifties, and I used to go and drool over them in much the same way that some of my distinguished colleagues here drool over lowercase bristols (not that I mind those myself you understand). There was a red Ulster there for a while. Can't remember whether it was £450 or £650. Some of the tattier four-seat 1.5s were as little as £250.

Remembering things like that brings me down a bit. Makes me eat my heart out and wish I had been a different sort of person.
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Sat 24 Oct 2009 07:17
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - mike hannon
>With a silver cow jug as a bonnet mascot?<

That jug featured in one of the original PG Wodehouse stories. May have been 'The Pride of the Woosters', but - as ever - I stand to be corrected.

I think a Bristol or a Plus 8 Morgan (not an Aero, heaven forfend) is a bit OTT for today's Bertie. I fear it would have to be a Volkswagen Bentley.
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Sat 24 Oct 2009 11:20
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - theterranaut
I reckon it was "Code of the Woosters", Mike, but will check/confirm when I find my omnibus.

Classic.
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Sat 24 Oct 2009 11:23
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - Alby Back
I think Jeeves might sanction a Scagliatti.
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Sat 24 Oct 2009 17:31
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - JH
It was "The Code of the Woosters", from 1938.

JH
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Wed 18 May 2011 04:43
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - milt farrow
It was "The Code of the Woosters", from 1938. JH

What a strange coincidence. I was watching the excellent Jeeves and Wooster TV series tonight, the episode in which Jeeves 'hides' the cherised cow creamer as a hood ornament on Wooster's car. I've watched enough of the series to wonder what the car is exactly. Now I have my answer. Until the recent royal wedding, I had probably never said the words 'Aston-Martin' out loud, but after William's brief drive in Charles' wine-powered Aston-Martin, I'm hearing the name more often. As we would say here (Western New York State, US, "nice ride."

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Sat 24 Oct 2009 18:10
Bertie Wooster's Sports Car - John F
I wonder what a 21st century "Bertie" would drive ? After all his "Jeeves" wouldn't
let him have anything too "footballerish" would he ?

Something ending in 'Volante' ?
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