> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Boicey [mailto:tboicey@brit.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:21 AM
> To: Ken Strayhorn
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Triumphs on TV?
>
>
>
> Ken Strayhorn wrote:
> > During the blast, the electromagnet pulse
> > destroys all the computers in the modern cars,
> > and one of the characters cries "we need to find
> > an older car without computers" in order to flee
> > the scene.
> >
> > Well, in the finest tradition of Hollywood,
> > what should happen that very moment but a car
> > drives up. The car? A white TR-7 that had
> > survived the blast intact - the convertable
> > top was even in one piece!
>
> ...I'm guessing the driver had just pulled
> over and swapped for a points-type distributor
> he had in the boot?
>
> He probably was oblivious to the electromagnet
> and just though "damn, I heard those LUCAS ignitions
> never lasted more than two years".
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> "I'm eating more French Fries than ever! Love me Dod! Love me!" - Ajax
>
Although it has been a while since I saw the movie, ISTR
that it was a TR6 rather than a TR7. Or am I thinking of
another disaster flick?
Doug
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Doug Mitchell
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'73 Spitfire 1500
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