Legend has it that Jaguar turned ITC down when it was asked for a white E-Type to use in a new one-hour series - Browns Lane didn't need the publicity - so Grade turned to Volvo, which was eager to supply a P1800. The raffish Swede blended perfectly with Moore's stylishly cut suits and well-groomed looks and the car became one of the symbols of the series: if you were a kid at the time you probably had the Corgi model. Moore liked the car - which at that stage was being produced in the UK by Jensen - so much that he bought one for his own use. The on-screen numberplate - ST1 - was a fake, incidentally. The P1800 featured in most episodes, although Moore occasionally drove more exotic cars when the script demanded it.