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PostSubject: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptyThu Jun 18, 2015 8:47 pm

Reports are coming in that the whomobile has been found.

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PostSubject: Re: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptySun Jul 05, 2015 4:05 pm

It was lost?
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PostSubject: Re: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptyMon Jul 06, 2015 12:18 pm

Calixar wrote:
It was lost?

For about 20'odd years... yes.
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PostSubject: Re: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptyMon Jul 06, 2015 5:29 pm

I thought both the Whomobile and Bessie are with private collectors after the end of Pertwee's reign. Needed someone who could look after the vehicles properly. I could swear I've even seen recent photos of a fresh paint-job in the past 5 years. Wasn't aware that the BBC lost track of who had it.
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PostSubject: Re: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptyMon Jul 06, 2015 10:51 pm

Bessie is the property of the BBC, and as such is in the exhibition run. The Whomobile was commissioned by Pertwee and when he left the show it left with him. He did sell it a few years later to a private individual and it pretty much dropped off the radar at that time.
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PostSubject: Re: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptyMon Jul 06, 2015 11:27 pm

Here is the story

Pertwee sold to a guy in 1994 when Pertwee died in 96 the guy locked it away not to look at it for over 20 years.

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PostSubject: Re: Whomobile found   Whomobile found EmptyTue Jul 14, 2015 8:51 pm

Odd that this was reported as lost as the owner has been fairly open about having it over the years.

It's quite surprising just how many props from the original run still exists, tucked away in various private collections. It's like the TARDIS props, pretty much all of them are still around, just not necessarily all in the hands of the BBC.
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