- 1. Re: movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: tdm@akguc.att.com
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 93 09:12 EDT
- In the Pat Boone's movie, "State Fair", Pat Boone raced an MGA driven by my father-in-law !! ( I'm REALLY reaching.....) Don Mathis
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00002.html (6,897 bytes)
- 2. movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Roger.Casanova" <RCASANOV%SUADMIN.BITNET@suvm.acs.syr.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1993 09:49 ET
- I am a new subscriber to the net and have been reading the digest for the past few weeks with a great deal of interest and some nostalgia. My only claim to fame is as the PO of a 1969 GT6+ (also a 19
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00005.html (7,640 bytes)
- 3. Re: Movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 14:04:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Rik Shlierer wrote about John Cleese beating a red mini in an episode of Fawlty Towers. Cleese and this car had a great adversarial relationship, but a minor (pun unintended, but noted) correction: I
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00020.html (7,387 bytes)
- 4. Movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: Philip Searle <searle@indigo.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 13:13:02 -0700 (PDT)
- In reply to Rik Schlierer's Post about the John Cleese "Mini" in Fawlty Towers (Thur, Sep 93). Wasn't this a Red Austin 1100 and not a mini? There used to be a lot of these in the UK. They had the 10
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00024.html (7,479 bytes)
- 5. Re: movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: Kendall Robinson <kendallr@smtplink.chey.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Oct 93 18:39:33 EST
- I'll continue to rummage through movies I have. Didn't somebody drive an MGA one of those "Elvis, we gotta win this race" movies? It seems to be stuck in my head as such. Dan Gilbert dgilbert@reed.ed
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00031.html (7,303 bytes)
- 6. Re: movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: Kendall Robinson <kendallr@smtplink.chey.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 93 16:08:35 EST
- Sorry, the MGA movie is Blue Hawaii, not Clambake. Kendall
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00053.html (7,231 bytes)
- 7. Re: movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: DANIELS@LMSBV2.TAMU.EDU (Lee Daniels, Texas A&M University)
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 16:23:17 -0500 (CDT)
- Is anyone compiling these? Would make a nice list. Here's an obscure one: Jerry Lewis' DISORDERLY ORDERLY -- runaway ambulance scene -- at one point four cars converge at an intersection and stop sud
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00055.html (7,604 bytes)
- 8. Re: Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: phile@stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier)
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 13:17:17 -0500 (CDT)
- The Cobra didn't. The guy with the outstate California accent had a couple of good lines. When he saw the Cobra his old rival had (he had a Ferrari) he said "What's this, a race for antique cars?".
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00200.html (8,189 bytes)
- 9. movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: <amace%sedofis%sed.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 14:42:01 EST
- Regarding various recent postings: I seem to recall reading years ago that no fewer than six Beetles were used in the filming of the original Love Bug movie, to accomodate various stunts such as the
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00433.html (8,560 bytes)
- 10. Re: movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: mburdick@unmc.edu (Mike Burdick)
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 11:26:48 CDT
- Or: TR-6 in the final episode of Cheers TR-6 in Three Men and a Baby TR-3 in Diner Mike mburdick@unmc.edu
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00443.html (7,442 bytes)
- 11. Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: lesnyd@bb1t.monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder lesnyd@monsanto.com 314-694-3626)
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 11:45:50 -0500
- The TR3 in the movie Diner is owned by our own John Lye. Someday I'm going to actually *see* this car, right, John? Larry
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00444.html (7,516 bytes)
- 12. Re: Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: lye@elegans.wustl.edu (John Lye)
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 12:04:35 CDT
- mburdick@unmc.edu sez: I know a bit about that car - since I own it. I was living in Baltimore when they were shooting Diner and they needed a red 1959 TR-3A for Kevin Bacon to drive. I got to go dow
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00445.html (7,831 bytes)
- 13. Re: Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 10:15:00 pdt
- Maybe you can get him to roll it over on its side too.
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00446.html (7,909 bytes)
- 14. Re: movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: Cory Carpenter <coryc@sequent.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 13:36:14 -0700
- (My first attempt didn't include British-cars in the header for some reason, so only Roger Garnett received it.) TeriAnn asks: In "Harold and Maude?" I thought it was BRG -- or maybe that was before
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00451.html (8,069 bytes)
- 15. Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: daved@syncrude.com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 14:01:13 -0400
- I can think of a couple of other LBC's in Movies I think it's an TR of some sort in "School Ties", a recent flick And who can forget about the MGA in "Animal House" ( and the hanky panky) ! ! Dave Dm
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00463.html (7,970 bytes)
- 16. Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: cabler@calcutta.amd.com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 14:19:08 CDT
- Green (I think) TR6 driven by Gary in an episode of thirtysomething. Dru Cabler cabler@dvorak.amd.com 512-462-5399
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00467.html (7,647 bytes)
- 17. Re: Movie Cars (score: 1)
- Author: phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier)
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 16:15:58 -0500 (CDT)
- Several episodes. My wife used to watch this, and as I was cruising through the living room I would often get a glimpse of this car with the roll bar bearing the word "Triumph" in gold. The other guy
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00469.html (7,951 bytes)
- 18. re:movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: gt0035b@prism.gatech.edu (Henry David Sommer)
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 19:45:14 -0400 (EDT)
- I remeber a Lotus add where thyey said a movie director drove one of their cars (an Esprit?) off a cliff 4 times hoping it would breack apart and it never did he finaly beat it apart and threw the wh
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00475.html (7,986 bytes)
- 19. Movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: "Jester" <jester@dev2.invlogic.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 19:51:06 EDT
- Well not that these are movies but they did have TRIUMPHs in the episodes: TR3 - The wonder Years TR7 - Driven by Perry/Purdy in ???? be damed If i can remember the name of the show right now - but I
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00480.html (8,895 bytes)
- 20. movie cars (score: 1)
- Author: Rik Schlierer <RGS03%ALBNYDH2.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 11:46:58 EDT
- I don't recall in all of the postings if anyone mentioned the blower Bentley driven by John Steed in the Avengers, (I think it started with a mention of Emma Peel's Lotus). Also, did anyone mention:
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00485.html (8,405 bytes)
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