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- From: brooks@mcnc.org (Ted Brooks)
- Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
- Subject: Re: One more faked car wreck in movies
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.165151.2099@mcnc.org>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:51:51 GMT
- References: <hhelanto.725084319@vipunen.hut.fi> <10640@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
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- In article <10640@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
- >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
- True. There's undoubtedly just another line item in their budget for
- purchase of vehicles to be destroyed. Just another nonrecoverable expense,
- just like motel and food bills.
-
- I remember watching a trashy movie called "Big Bad Mama" with Angie Dickinson
- and William Shatner. Gangsters in the '30s stuff. Anyway, they rolled a
- couple cars in one scene, including putting a Ford Model A on its side. I
- know it was a real "A" because you could see the traverse suspension rear
- axle that is unique to early Fords. Really pissed me off to see a nice
- antique trashed for the likes of that movie. But hey, they didn't ask my
- opinion.
-
- Ted Brooks
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