RE: Driving Movies, etc.

[Owain Jones <owain.jones@ebm-ziehl.co.uk>]

Tell you what if you want some nice diving - try the Welsh stages of the
RAC rally in the UK 

It ain't bad- trick is to see how many spectators you can knock off in
one corner!

Anyway back to reality

Oaf

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	tgsgronback@mindspring.com [SMTP:tgsgronback@mindspring.com]
> Sent:	25 February 1999 16:31
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	RE: Driving Movies, etc.
> 
> >On chase scenes, don't forget The French Connection, and the race
> with the
> >subway train.
> 
> 
> When I was in college in Nyack, NY, I house sat one summer in an old
> Tudor
> villa overlooking the Tappan Zee bridge.  For those of you who have
> never
> been in this area, it is about 20 miles north of NYC, and the Hudson
> river
> is at its widest...about 1 mile.  Some of the best touring roads in
> America
> start here and go north on either side of the river (if you try it,
> include
> the Taconic Parkway, which I consider one of the greatest).
> 
> I got to know the neighbors in this four home enclave carved into the
> Palisades, and eventually the young lady next door, who was about my
> age,
> told me this story:
> 
> Gene Hackman lived in the cottage just below us for six months the
> previous
> summer.  As the neighbors became friendly with him, he explained that
> he was
> filming a movie in the city.   He drove home every night in a car they
> got
> used to seeing.  One night he returned in a different car.
> 
> They asked, he told: "Oh, we wrecked that car today as part of a chase
> scene".  He apparently went on to describe his day at work.
> 
> Wish I could have been a fly on the wall for that conversation...
> 
> Steve Gronback