The car itself, a 1968 Ford Galaxy, had originally been shipped to England by Pinewood Studios and it had been used as a prop in a number of films, including the first Superman movie. It was then bought from Pinewood by a young artist named Gary Mitchell, who painted it to resemble a police car, attached a pirate flag to its aerial and largely trashed it off-roading and driving doughnuts in the fields around Godstone in Surrey. Mitchell then sold the
