"here she comes, just a walkin down the street singing......."
One of my all time favorite movies with a great role played by John Candy.
Wish he were still around.... Any of you have the version where they
actually show the guys driving off in a pink car for a night of fun. I saw
it once, but every tape I've ever seen only shows Sarge yelling at them the
day after....
And I believe it was a TR6 and yellow in Atomic Train. But that was from a
memory. I haven't seen it for a while.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Tburke4@aol.com [mailto:Tburke4@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:32 AM
To: ken@dukecomm.duke.edu; spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Triumphs on TV?
Hi Ken,
That movie is high on our family's list of All-time Worst Movies. If your
son
watched the whole thing, it is possible that you could sue NBC for damages
and lost time. We didn't catch it this time, but, I seem to recall that it
was a TR-6 or earlier model, not the wedge-shaped TR-7. Forgive me if I'm
wrong.
Elsewhere on TV and movies, the 1981 Bill Murray Army send-up, "Stripes" has
a scene where John Larroquette drives a very sharp Carmine Red Spitfire into
the warehouse where their tank/RV was stored. It's a very brief appearance,
as most of these car cameos are.
Tom Burke
80 Spit
In a message dated 12/13/2000 7:32:04 AM Pacific Standard Time,
ken@dukecomm.duke.edu writes:
> Speaking of Triumphs on TV - my son was watching a
> fairly foolish movie on one of the broadcast
> networks this past weekend called "Atomic Train",
> in which a train carrying an atomic bomb derails
> outside of Denver and detonates.
>
> 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! But, alas, the
> fabric of the top had not shielded the driver
> from radiation, so he conveniently died just
> in time for the two characters to take the
> Triumph and drive to safety.
>
> Did anyone else see this?
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