Re: Greatest Car Movie Was...

["R. Cummings" <cumm@flash.net>]

Oh Boy! no question  G R A N D   P R I X 
When that movie came out I had a 61 Healey 3000 (no, that was the year
before it came our with those sissy roll up windows and fold down top). The
U.S. Grand Prix for Formula 1 was in Watkins Glen and a few of us got to
work in John Cooper's pit (Work is perhaps a slight exageration, dusting
bodywork and sweeping the pit). But the cars, the smells, the color, the
women .... fantastic.

The atmosphere and flow of the movie had the same feeling, excluding the
hookey parts. Ives Montand and the Jimmy Clark Lookalike (what was his
name?) looked more like Formula 1 pilots than the real guys who were well
presented in the picture. I remember Graham Hill, Stewart, Clark, Moss and
the German Count von somebody, the one who couldn't get a ride but had so
much money he bought himself a car and raced. Later, killed himself at it,
like so many of them.

Great movie - Bob Cummings 87 Coupe GT