A good laugh bit in the Italian job is the guy checking the diff at the rear
of
the car!
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, 8 May 1999 19:25
Subject: Re: Jensen GT
>Rendezvous is always good to play to the unitiated and watch the reaction.
>BTW The Italian Job was filmed in Turin and featured their new Opera House,
>not Sydney's. A fair bit of filmic license was taken because if a Cooper S
>carried that many gold bars it wouln't be able to get out of it's own way,
>and the Polizi Giuliettas were very special in their day. BTW the police
>in Sydney at the time used Cooper S (copper S?) pursuit cars so goodnight
>felon. This was also one of the first films to feature an overtly gay
>character, even if slightly caricatured. Just imagine how brave Peter
>Lorre had to be to play a gay Joel Cairo in the Maltese Falcon (not a car
>reference).
>
>And there were many, many times I felt like pushing my Mk1 Cooper S over
>cliff...
>
>Peter
>
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>From: Ronsoave@aol.com
>To: spritenut@exit109.com; bobkathylangham@worldnet.att.net
>Cc: racer45@bellsouth.net; toobmany@bigpond.com; spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Jensen GT
>Date: Saturday, 8 May 1999 12:56
>
>In a message dated 99-05-07 21:58:01 EDT, spritenut@Exit109.com writes:
>
>> The Italian job!
>> I have it on video if any one wants to borrow it.
>
>One of the greatest car flicks ever. The best? A nine-minute movie called
>"Rendezvous", filmed by a french producer who strapped a camera to the
>front
>of his 12 cylinder Ferrari and tore thru Paris at dawn. You have to see it
>
>to believe it. I had a room of 15 Dodge Dart type engineers watch it one
>day, and they even admitted it was tremendously cool.
>
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