CorvairJim
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Aussie Movie and its not a Dart
How about "The Kings of Mykonos"?
While I'm at it, let me bump a couple of cars I've posted over the last few days. There have been a couple of incorrect guesses onthe Caddy, but everybody is quiet on the big Buick. (Once again, I apologize for the lousy job I did editing out an identifyable person from the Buick's photo... I'm no Harry!) My hint was that both of these cars are seen regularly in current TV shows, although maybe not every episode.:
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Making Mr. Right
And you indeed are "Mr. Right" on this one! For my next Corvair selection, may I present this one?:
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I know that this one has alreeady been named, but I have to add that the car is still in good hands. I saw it on display just last year at the Valley Forge, PA. overnight stopover of "The Hemmings Motor News Great Race". The current owner of "The Leslie Special" is none other thanthe great-grandson of George Schuster, the man who drove the Thomas Flyer in the REAL 1907 New-York-to-Paris "Great Race".
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Anyone know this one?
"The Way Way Back"
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These two are from the same movie....
Doggone it, Mike, I'M the one who's supposed to be posting the Corvairs! I had that one saved up for later. Oh well. (Just kidding - It's good to have someone else on here who respects the little guys! Diggin' the Kombi, too.) So, how about another film featuring what I think might possibly have been the same car? I'm not sure, and I don't really think they ARE the same one, but they're the same model (Monza, NOT Monza Spyder), and year (1964), they're both the same shade of red with black interiors and tops, and both cars lack top boots. But, the 1969 car has stock wheel covers and is missing the factory Monza emblem - unusual for a car that was only supposed to be 5 years old!:
Ben, You're absolutely correct about "With Honors".
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I haven't been able to post photos directly to this site recently either. I just load them from Photobucket. That works fine for me.
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Nobody yet on that Tuesday night Cadillac convertible? Well, does anybody watch TV on MONDAY night? Here's another one from a current series that I really like. I had to take some editing liberties with it to get rid of a person. I apologize that I'm nowhere as adept at it as our Harry is!:
And, since I've been posting a series of TV and movie Corvairs, and that last Corvair FC was guessed so quickly, I thought I'd post another movie FC... Guess it if you can!:
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Correct Jim and Jesse. A couple more. From the 60s
The 80s
That Thunderbird Sport Roadster took some research, but it was in the film "Palm Springs Weekend" from back in 1963, when the car was brand spankin' new. As for the lovely Jaguar MK. IX saloon beneath it, I have no idea but I wish I had!
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Spot on!
Anyone know the car, just out of interest?
steve
It's a '59 Lister Jaguar.
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I forget who it was that recorded "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love", Harry, but that IS the song!
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You came to the right place, Brent! Lots of talented folks on here who will be glad to share any tips and advice you may want.
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Not the star car but may be a recognizable scene.
That's from the opening title sequence of the classic "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", one of the all-time great kids car films! Too bad it had almost nothing in common with the Ian Fleming kid's novel that I greatly enjoyed back in 4th grade!
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Blue Rampside: My Girl 2?
Well, that was quick! I thought it was more obscure. How about this Corvair featured in a somewhat more recent film:
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Mr. Holland's Opus
Too easy? One of the greatest films of the era. How about this one? This pickup still exists in this form - Last I knew, it's owned by a member of my local Corvair club, although he hasn't had it out in a few years. This was one of the main vehicles of what was a fairly popular, but now largely forgotten film:
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Guess nobody got the caddy limo from -'Not of this Earth'
Here is a salute to the Corvan build and another car from the same TV show another car in the mandatory chase scene
Don't everyone jump on this one!
greg
Help me out, Greg! I need to know - where is that Greenbrier from? I'm not familiar with the movie, and it's driving me nuts!
(P.S. - WHAT Corvan build? I'm not on here too often - is there something I've missed???)
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The Van is correct. How about a comedy from the same year.
"Slap Shot" I have a 1:64 diecast of this car from Greenlight.
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I posted this one a few days ago and have had a couple of wrong guesses. Doesn't anyone watch TV on Tuesday night?
I said I'd be posting some more of my collection of TV and movie Corvairs, so here's #2. This was used in a very popular movie when it was released. Some consider it to have been the lead actor's best performance.
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I can't figure out why they let each team provide their own balls. So a couple of quarterbacks cried to the league? Is that all it takes for a rule change? Name me one other team sport - just ONE - where the team provides their own balls or any other essential part of the game. Baseball, basketball, heck, tennis, for goodness sake! Sure, in baseball, the home team's clubhouse manager preps 12 dozen balls per game, but they're for the whole game and used at random. In tennis, they just rip open a fresh can and a new ball goes into play. Why can't the NFL do like every other sport?
(BTW - I don't have a dog in this fight either, but I personally hope those cheating Patriots have their butts handed to them on a platter! Belichek (spelling?) is a known cheater and it would serve him right. Frankly, I agree with those who stated that the Pats should be barred from the game entirely. I'd add a thumpin' HUGE fine and a loss of ALL draft picks next year. But that's just me... )
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I'm what's called a "Mailhandler" for the U.S. Postal Service. In my case, that means that I move carts of "Flats" (large envelopes, magazines, catalogs, and other mailpieces roughly that size) into and out of a honkin' H-U-G-E, $10 million+ sorting machine that can take 25,000 pieces for a certain town and sort them into carrier route walk-sequence in roughly an hour. Mostly I'm responsible for taking the carts of mail that has been sorted out of the machine and loading them into the waiting trucks to be taken to the delivery office. My shift generally runs 5-6 of these runs daily.
Mailhandlers don't sort letter mail or manually sort ANY type of mail. Depending on the local union agreement, we can be responsible for parcel machines and stamp cancellation or not. Where I am now, we operate all of the parcel machines, which is a good thing since our plant is almost exclusively parcels. The flats operation is almost an afterthought, although we're consistently in the top 5% of production in the entire postal service. I ran a cancellation machine at my old plant for about 10 years, but that's the purview of the Clerk's union at the Philadelphia main sorting facility. Mailhandlers load and unload the trucks, and mobe the mail around the facility with forklifts and other powered industrial trucks.
I've been at this facility (the Philadelphia Network Distribution Center, the 3rd-largest facility of it's type in the U.S.P.S.) for a bit over a year now, having lost the position I had where I'd been working for the previous 28+ years due to rampant plant closures. This genius of a Postmaster General we now have, Patrick Donohoe, seems to believe that a business can be made more profitable by cutting service. My original facility was only about 7.5 miles from home; now I have a 28-mile commute each way, including $6 worth of turnpike tolls every day. I also have the privelege of paying Philadelphia's wage tax, MUCH higher than what I used to pay even though I don't live in the city. All this and a pay cut too! Just think - If I'd had the foresight to have given a cool million bucks to a certain presidential campaign like he did, I could'a been the Postmaster General instead of the bozo we now have! Heck, I'm a career Postal Worker, he had family money and was a middle-manager for a comsumer products company with ZERO experience in any sort of shipping business. I'm pretty sure I could have done a better job.
OK, rant over.
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Please see post # 264
Sorry, Tim. I didn't realize your answer was in reference to my blue Cadillac... Mostly because it wasn't from that film either. It's a more recent TV series.
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I watched this movie almost every other day when I was little until I lost the tape.
"The Love Bug". That's baddie Peter Thorndyke's Apollo 3500GT, a very rare car that was really put through it's paces in that movie. Most people, even some serious car guys, think it's actually a Ferrari.
(Oops... I missed that this one had already been solved. That's what happens when I'm offline for a few days... )
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Jim my ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL time favorite series Ultraman and or Ultra Seven
My first Corvair posted and you score a direct hit. I always thought it funny how the Japanese "Science Team" (?) used an American car! I'll add some more later on when I'm not on a public computer that won't let me post pictures from Photobucket. Of course I don't have access ot my home photo files at the moment either...
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"Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?" episode of The Wonderful World of Disney.
That's it! If you haven't seen this one, it's on YouTube and well worth the look for the sheer laughs!
I first saw it as a short at a drive-in theater, probably a year or two after it aired on TV. I only found out after I posted this that it was on W.W.O.D.
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Not being too familiar with the Grand National Roadster Show or the "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" award, I may be speaking out of school here. The way I see it, though, if the name of the award is the criterion they're using, then it should go to the most beautiful roadster in the opinion of the judges, regardless of the era or style of the build. If they consider a more modern take on a traditional car the best looking one, then that car should be the winner. I'm sure, like any of us, the judges have their own take on what makes a car "Beautiful"; Some prefer the "Old School" style while others look for more cutting-edge features. I like cars that make me go back for another look for any reason, be it a traditionalm style executed particularly well or a new innovation I'd never seen before or even thought of. Most (but not all) of the finalists fit MY criteria. There are only a few of the finalists that would ahve disappointed me if they had won. By and large, I'd be proud to have any of these cars in my garage - if I had a garage!
There were a couple of faux pas that caught my eye - The Packard grille shell on one car didn't seem to fit in with the design of the rest of the car, and the car with the full-custom body and the engine that over-filled the engine bay had flanges around the engine bay for a hood that would have no possible way to fit on the car without looking completely out of place come to mind right off.
name that movie car
in The Off-Topic Lounge
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... And the funny thing is that therer was not a single AMC Gremlin in the movie or any of the sequels (that I know of... ). OK, you guys are doing pretty well on my Corvair posts so far. This one ought to be a snap!: