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| Iconic: a tomato red Gran Torino was Starsky's 'hero' car |
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Starsky and Hutch and The Sweeney had a lot in common: bad dress sense, immortal lines (remember 'Get yer trousers on, you're nicked'?), an unfailing ability to nail 1970s perps either side of the Atlantic. Both featured in the charts, too. Hutch (David Soul) had hits such as 'Don't Give Up On Us Baby' and the boys from the flying squad got a celebrated name check in Squeeze's 1979 No.2, Cool for Cats: "The Sweeney's doing 90, 'cos they got the word to go/ They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow."
What Squeeze didn't put in the lyrics was the fact that at the time DI Jack Regan was allegedly doing well in excess of the national speed limit on the way to apprehend said criminals, he was in a Ford Granada Consul. As for David Soul? There was not a mention anywhere in his hits for the iconic Gran Torino which turned the dynamic duo into a trio.
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| In the original TV series, Hutch never drove the car... |
Maybe that's because neither Regan nor Hutch ever drove what are known in the business as the 'hero' cars in their hit shows. Regan was always too busy effing and blinding at his 'oppo' DS George Carter and Hutch too occupied with his hair or calling 'Zebra 3' into the radio.
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