RE: : Rendezvous - Car

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

I remember one scene from The Italian Job where two or three Minis are
zipping down a large tube (Drainage? Sewer?) and they barrel-roll right over
inside the tube! I've always wanted to do that, particularly the part where
they finish right-side-up!

My all-time favorite chase movie is one called Brewster McCloud (I think)
where some nut is trying to pull an Icarus (man powered flight by flapping
wings) inside a football dome (the Astrodome?) and ends up in his
girlfriend's Gremlin AMX (anybody remember them?) being chased by some
hotshot in a Chrysler Hemi something or other. Great footage, I can't find
it on tape anywhere...

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

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>From: 	mickley@infosysman.com[SMTP:mickley@infosysman.com]
>Sent: 	Monday, April 01, 1996 5:31 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: : Rendezvous - Car 
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>> Tr> Scott, do you have any idea what the car is?  I have spent many a
>> Tr> long  night in debate with friends about the make and model.
>
>I have the tape too (worth every penny on those cold nights).  I've seen
>posts of 308GTB and 275GTB.  My guess would be sounds like specially geared
>V-12 vs a V-8.  For those of you that haven't seen it - it is an in-car
>camera of a guy rippin from one side of Paris to the other.  If you haven't
>seen it - you can't imagine how many red lights the guy runs during the
>course of 9 minutes.  Is that a traffic circle or skid pad :-)  Also
>driving
>on the sidewalk to avoid the garbage truck (and the lady on the sidewalk!)
>is interesting...You have to have an original to see any clarity.  I paid
>about $50 for mine at the Watkins Glen Vintage Race from some vendor there.
>I think I have the order information if others are looking for it...
>
>Another classic I would like to see - The Italian Job.  I've heard this
>vintage movie about a robbery of some sort crashes many Mini Coopers, a
>Lamborghini Miura's, E-types and countless other now rare classics.  Why
>can't they crash my Quattro and give me the Miura?  I hate when that
>happens...:-)
>
>-Lou
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