Pat Catchpole wrote:
>
>
> Diamonds are Forever contains one of those brilliant lack-of-continuity scenes
> where to escape the baddies Bond has to drive the car on 2 wheels to fit down
>a
> narrow passage. He enters the passage on the left hand wheels, the camera
>angle
> changes, and he exits on the right hand ones. Now that is clever. Check it
>out
> next time it's on TV
>
> Pat
>
> Subject: RE: Aussie Master Cyl. Kit
> Author: RICHARD.JACKSON@NENE.AC.UK at Internet-po
> Date: 14/05/98 09:31
>
>
> While we're on the subject of Oz, does anyone kow who started the Holden motor
> company, I have been told it was a butcher from Walsall in England, just
> curious, that's all!!!
>
> Rich
>
> ps, on the subject of Bond films, in Diamonds are forever(I think) they was a
> Topaz orange Stag, for some bizarre reason that gorgeous V8 burble had been
> dubbed over with what sounded exactly like a Herald!!!!
>
> >>I just received a brake master cylinder rebuild kit that was made by PBR
> >>Automotive in Australia. ISTR the prevailing wisdom some time back was
> >>that the rubber bits from Down Under were less than what one would
> >>expect. ...
>
> >Maybe they saw Mad Max and figured that's what it was really like, down
> >here. (Actually, it's only like that in Queensland.)
>
> >Allen Nugent
> >Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> >University of New South Wales
> >Sydney 2052 Australia
>
Wasn't the car a Cortina?
Dennis
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