I'm sorry, I beg to differ. Here are links to photos of the car in the
movie:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YhXyERcLvWU/SvPy72COIcI/AAAAAAAAAOM/-mlfsJ80csU/s4
00/monaco-to-catch-a-thief.jpg
http://www.classicfilmstars.com/img/grant-kelly-catchthief.jpg
http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/Grace%20Kelly.jpg
http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/hit/catch.jpg
Here are two views of a 1953 Sunbeam Alpine:
http://www.allwestins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/CarShow-Convertibl
e-Blue.jpg
http://www.anatreptic.com/1953%20Sunbeam%20Alpine.jpg
Here is a photo of a Jowett Jupiter:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/JowettJupiter2.JPG/250px
-JowettJupiter2.JPG
The easiest way to tell the difference is that the Jowett has a divided
windscreen (with a center post) -- the car in the movie has a single-piece
windscreen.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 11/4/10 8:31 PM, Aeseeyou@aol.com at Aeseeyou@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/4/2010 9:41:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> max_heim@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> Also known as an Alpine, it is what Grace Kelly drove in the aforementioned
> movie.
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>
> Grace Kelly was driving a 1954 Jowett Jupiter in the movie "To Catch A
> Thief" with Cary Grant.
> -==Safety-Fast==-
> Alberto Escalante
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