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- From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
- Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
- Subject: Re: One more faked car wreck in movies
- Message-ID: <10640@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:37:30 GMT
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- Henri R Helanto (hhelanto@vipunen.hut.fi) wrote:
- : In <10631@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
- : >because anything smaller looked like a model on film. That scale model
- : >train was specially built for the movie and I suspect cost a good deal more
- : >than some of the cars this group talks about.
- :
- : I think the point of all isn't how much $$$ do the cars cost
- : but how many unique, rare and non-expendable cars are or have
- : been wrecked in making of movies. (I think many subscribers
- : of this newsgroup agree with that...)
-
- Like a functional 1/4 scale train model isn't unique and rare? I'm not in
- favor of movie crews wrecking collectible cars, just pointing out that they
- *do* wreck rare and expensive stuff. Unfortunately, they have enough money
- to buy collectibles and then trash them. Sigh.
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- * Bill Ranck ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
- * Computing Center at Virginia Tech, not Vermont ----------------------^^ *
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