Where is world’s most famous Stag?

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Just when the sad news of the passing of Christopher Lee reached us last month, we were thinking: What Would Dracula Drive? The answer, as so often, was provided by our friends from Google who were able to tell that a pre-production, fashionably mustard yellow Triumph Stag was used as means of transport in ‘Dracula a.d. 1972’: a Hammer horror flick of – you guessed it – 1972, depicting the late great Lee once more as the Master of Macabre. The Triumph in question, registered ‘RVC 435H’, turned out to be known by the DVLA, too. Untaxed since 1999 but at least in their database.

But what’s more: the great Lee wasn’t the only actor having driven it. The yellow Stag, no doubt a works demonstrator, was used in a whole range of early 1970s television series and films. From The Benny Hill Show to The Sweeney (now in brown) and from The Professionals to Bond himself in Diamonds are Forever (above). Some sources say it went to a museum in Miami, but others say it’s not there anymore. Who knows more?

Words Jeroen Booij. Picture courtesy IMDB.

 

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