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- From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
- Subject: Re: Lotus Elan in 'Basic Instinct'
- References: <570@bit.UUCP> <1jjl26INN5jh@phantom.gatech.edu> <1993Jan21.005107.6498@cypress.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:05:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.005107.6498@cypress.com> ssr@cypress.com (Bapcha/FPGA) writes:
- >In article <1jjl26INN5jh@phantom.gatech.edu> grahamt@phantom.gatech.edu (Graham E. Thomas) writes:
- >>grego@bit.UUCP (Greg Sanguinetti) writes:
- >>
- >>>Not to mention the old James Bond movie (thunderball?) that featured
- >>>the amphibious Esprit. I think it was even sumbersible!
- >>
- >>The amphibious Esprit appeared in two Roger Moore Bond films of the late
- >>70s I think. I don't remember the titles. The Lotus was blown
- >>up in the first 10 minutes of the second one. Another Moore film has him
- >>driving a red Lotus at a ski resort. Does anyone know these titles?
- >>
- >
- >The one at the ski resort was also white - the movie was FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.
- >This was the one that was blown up.
- >
- >Thunderball had the amphibious esprit in it... it was a car/sub/hovercraft in one...
- >cool eh ?
- >
- >--
- >Bapcha ssr@cypress.com | NeXT mail is NOT welcome.
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- Why not? :-)
- I think that the first time the amphibious Esprit was used was in
- The Spy who Loved Me. I think the red "Lotus" was actually 007's famous
- Aston Martin DB5. They were both on display at the DC Auto Show, I got to see
- them.
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