S8 in Ronin

[Lawrence C Leung]

I wonder if the contraption was anything like the Trabant (those little
Iron Curtain cars, i.e. Yugo like) Catapult I read about once....

LL - NY

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:56:29 -0400 Brett Dikeman
<quattro at pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net> writes:
>At 12:45 AM +0200 10/28/00, Per Lindgren wrote:
>>Rave Racer 2000 wrote:
>>
>>>  and crumpled body's on all the landings, and
>>>  then drive away like there was no damage?  Suuuuure.
>>
>>Ever seen "The Blues Brothers" from 1980? They used no less than 8 
>1974 Dodge
>>Monacos in the part as The Bluesmobile. Not to mention several 
>hundreds of cop
>>cars.
>
>Actually, The Blues Brothers held the record for the most number of 
>cars crashed in any one scene(specifically, the scene is almost at 
>the end of the movie, in Chicago; everybody crests a hill at a 
>zillion miles an hour, and one cop car crashes into another, then 
>it's just all downhill from there.)
>
>It lost the record a few years back...
>
>...to Blues Brothers 2000.
>
>For BB2k, they built a custom set of catapults to wing mostly empty 
>crown vic's into a big, huge pile.  I believe it consisted of a 
>massive hydraulic arm that whipped the cars into the pile.   A little 
>
>editing and it looks like the stream of cars was constant.
>
>Brett
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