As well as his decade-long role as Arfur in East Enders, Bill Treacher, who sadly died today, found fame as an improbable Austin Allegro stunt driver in this 1973 TV advert. (This seems to be an upload from a pre-VHS recording!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuKv1UQNr7s Note the utterly unflappable female passenger in the back, who is taken on a ferocious test drive around a quarry with no seat belt - Pauline Fowler would have had forty fits, never mind the HSE inspector!
Edited by Bilboman on 08/11/2022 at 23:24
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