James Ruffner wrote:
> Interesting....The director of the film, Barry Levinson, I believe, was a
> Grad student here when he developed the story. I've had my TR-3A here for
> a long time, and have known most of the afficianados here thru the local
> British car club, but don't remember hearing that fact...
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Fred Thomas wrote:
>
> > James, the T/R 3 in the movie "Diner" (HBO yesterday) belonged to a
> > fellow employee at U.VA, Mr. R. John Lye, he rented it to them for
> > the entire casting.
Hi,
Many of the old timers on the list know this already, but it
is true that I owned the TR-3A that MGM rented as the lead in the
Barry Levinson movie Diner, which I understand was recently shown
on HBO. In fact, I still own that car. As the owner of the car, I
was welcomed onto the set whenever I wanted to come down and got
to meet Kevin Bacon. MGM treated me exceptionally well, and the
whole process was great fun.
Cheers,
John Lye
rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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