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Bangers & Cash review: From Fred Astaire to bootlegging, the racy life of a 100-year-old Roller, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

When Fred Astaire and his older sister Adele hit the London stage in the 1920s, one critic declared, 'There's been nothing like them since Noah's Flood.'

Invited to St James's Palace to meet the royals, she danced with the Prince of Wales but it was Bertie, the future George VI, who really caught her eye. There, he had new 'Playboy Roadster' coachwork built, to give it the American millionaire look, before it was sold to a rum runner who smuggled booze in the Prohibition years. Two of the 1970s Mexico model, with its rally car styling, came in to Mathewson's just days apart, and were duly sold, one to a buyer in Wales and the other across the Irish Sea.

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