[Healeys] healey sighting

[i erbs]

Thanks for the story.
Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 1:13 PM Steve Thomton via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Bob,
> I wrote story about this for one of the Healey club magazines years ago.
> I owned that Healey for years.  I bought it from a gentleman in San Jose
> who had bought it from the owner during the filming.  He gave me the plates
> with the car that can be seen in one of the shots when Steve McQueen parks
> his Mustang in front of it.  The story he (guy I bought it from) told me
> was that the Healey owner lived in one of the apartments, and while they
> moved other cars out for shooting, they let him leave his Healey there for
> the filming (pic attached).  The car can also be seen in another shot in
> the movie parked in the same place.  I restored the car into a Works Rally
> Tribute car (pic attached)... I didn't/don't think the film clips added any
> real value to the car so I didn't worry about it's 5 seconds of fame.  As a
> WRT car it was on 3 magazine covers.  The car now lives in Australia.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Thomton
>
> On ‎Monday‎, ‎May‎ ‎13‎, ‎2019‎ ‎09‎:‎48‎:‎21‎ ‎AM‎ ‎MDT, Bob Spidell <
> bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> There were several shots of a parked, white Healey in the movie
> 'Bullitt.'  Allegedly, the car belonged to one of the movie crew and the
> director liked it.
>
> On 5/13/2019 8:30 AM, healeymanjim wrote:
> > most of those shots are made in the studio and they just drag up what is
> available to shoot the scene.  ever notice how a
> > guy with a hat on in a convertible never loses his hat.
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