[Mgs] Info on two items in the latest issues.

Don don at napanet.net
Fri Nov 5 18:34:49 MST 2010


Who cares about the cars????
Grace Kelly was so gorgeous I can't bother with the cars!  It's no 
wonder a prince captured her.
This is my favourite film clip of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CuP2YQTUlE



At 06:07 PM 11/5/2010, Max Heim wrote:
>I'm sorry, I beg to differ. Here are links to photos of the car in the
>movie:
>
>http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YhXyERcLvWU/SvPy72COIcI/AAAAAAAAAOM/-mlfsJ80csU/s4
>00/monaco-to-catch-a-thief.jpg
>
>http://www.classicfilmstars.com/img/grant-kelly-catchthief.jpg
>
>http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/Grace%20Kelly.jpg
>
>http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/hit/catch.jpg
>
>
>Here are two views of a 1953 Sunbeam Alpine:
>
>http://www.allwestins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/CarShow-Convertibl
>e-Blue.jpg
>
>http://www.anatreptic.com/1953%20Sunbeam%20Alpine.jpg
>
>
>Here is a photo of a Jowett Jupiter:
>
>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/JowettJupiter2.JPG/250px
>-JowettJupiter2.JPG
>
>
>The easiest way to tell the difference is that the Jowett has a divided
>windscreen (with a center post) -- the car in the movie has a single-piece
>windscreen.
>
>
>
>--
>
>Max Heim
>'66 MGB GHN3L76149
>If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>
>
>
>on 11/4/10 8:31 PM, Aeseeyou at aol.com at Aeseeyou at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 11/4/2010 9:41:52 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> > max_heim at sbcglobal.net writes:
> >
> > Also known as an Alpine, it is what Grace Kelly drove in the aforementioned
> >  movie.
> > Max Heim
> > '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> >
> > Grace Kelly was driving a 1954 Jowett Jupiter in the movie "To Catch A
> > Thief" with Cary Grant.
> > -==Safety-Fast==-
> > Alberto Escalante
>________
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