Rob Hall

Collosius: The Forbin Project...it's in color, saw it a couple years ago. Fun movie. The US and the USSR's super computers decide to wage war on each other.

I think it's from the same director that did Independence Day and The Day after Tommorow. Big CGI boom fest...

Ya, the '70s had a lot of good future shock sci-fi flicks... THX 1138, Logan's Run, Omega Man, A Boy and His Dog, up through the Mad Max movies (leading over to the car chase movie thread). One in particular I remember as a kid was called 'The Stranger'...an astronaut lands on a parallel world earth...just like Earth, even has '73 Plymouth Furys...but not Earth

Speaking of 2012, anyone see the trailer for the movie '2012'? Looks like a CGI extravagana involving a giant earthquake in LA and a flying Lincoln Town Car limo.. As far as 'end of the world' disaster movies, I watched 'Knowing' the other night, a fairly incoherent flick w/ Nic Cage and a plot involving solar flares, strange kids, numbers, and aliens that drive old LTDs.

A '70 would have the 455, though. Interesting thing, the '69 kit is full detail w/ a 430 (or 455? not sure when they upsized). Both the '69 and '70 are nice kits. Sharp build here..

Sharp build. Love the color.

I love that movie..first saw it on my folks' 25 inch Zenith in '78 as an 8 yr old and it made a big impression on me. Most recently saw it on DVD on my 60 inch TV w/ surround sound..incredible. It's no coincidence that this and my favorite modern chase movie ('Ronin') are both directed by the late John Frankenheimer. The driving scenes in Ronin are great because there is no CGI cheese..it's very visceral.

Trying to pass on a two lane road is a challenge...I rode in a RHD R32 for a while on an all day car club outing, the driver would ask me if it was clear for him to pull out.. spent the rest of the day alternating driving and navigating in my buddy Steve's NSX. That car was as much or more fun on the Colorado mountain backroads than my M3 was..

Cool...the R32 and R34 I've seen in Denver are both RHD...seems like it would be awkward to drive a RHD car in the US, but fun..

Interesting..wonder how they did those. All the R32/33/34s I've seen in person have been RHD (weren't they officially only sold in RHD countries?).

I watched all those shows as a kid in the '70s-80s. About the only ones of those I can still watch and enjoy are The Rockford Files and Starsky and Hutch.

For racing movies, I like Grand Prix, Le Mans, and Winning. Talledega Nights is the best NASCAR racing movie, IMHO..

There were a couple good chases IIRC in Lethal Weapon 4, one involving a little Grand Am vs. a Merc S class. I liked the chase in Die Hard 3 w/ the Merc S class (a car similar to my old beast). The chases in Die Hard 4 were ruined by too much obvious CGI, IMHO.

It does. The movie is a bit formulaic, but it's fun seeing Neeson being a badazz.

Ya, down the through the LA river..great chase. Another great chase in T2 is near the end, with the tanker truck, delivery van and S10 pickup. I still love the tension of that sequence, when the tanker truck turns around.. I haven't watched T3 in a while, my least favorite of the trilogy..I recall a good chase w/ a Caddy hearse, IIRC. The Bourne films had some good chases, esp. the 2nd one w/ the Lada and Merc G class in Russia.

Ah yeah..forgot the Intrigue..I have one of those in my promo stash also. Rob

Ah, yeah..I remember all of those... Jade in some places reminded me an homage to 'Bullitt' w/ the San Fran settings. The Mustang in that reminded me of my 1:1. R

Another recent movie chase I thought of that I liked was 'Joy Ride'... the Mopar vs. evil truck scenario was reminicent of Duel.

That's very cool. Anyone know what the oldest auto subject that has been available as a regular kit?

All I know is by 2012 I'll be 42 and plan to have a larger house in a climate that doesn't have 5 months of triple digit temps.

Interesting...I actually saw a 1:1 Checker yesterday...was an off-white or gray one, tail poking out of a carport in a neighborhood a few blocks from mine...hadn't seen one of those in many years.

Nope. IIRC, the only '90s FWD GM promos besides the Beretta and Storm were the '96 or so Monte Carlo and Aurora from Brookfield Collectors Guild. Revell had an '89-91 or so Grand Prix kit, and there was an unbranded '88 or '89 Regal promo. Nothing like the Bonneville.

Very nice..I didn't know Bburago did a 900. The color scheme reminds me of the '91 my sister had...similar styling, though the '91's front end was sloped back.

About the only resembalance from the J30 to any Bonneville I see are 4drs and 4 wheels. Their were 3 generations of FWD Bonnevilles--- '87-91, '92-99, '00-05. The only thing remotely similar in scale is the Brookfield Olds Aurora promo--would have a similar chassis to the later generations. But totally different body and interior. Alas, the Bonneville is just one of the many cars from the last couple decades never kitted and would require a lot of scratchbuilding to make a decent replica of, I'm afraid.

My favorites for older movies--Bullitt, French Connection, Seven Ups, Duel, White Lightning (love that 71 Galaxie), The Driver, Blues Brothers, To Live and Die in LA. Many of the older Bond movies had great chases..loved the car scenes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, though George Lazenby was the worst Bond, IMHO. For more recent movies-- Ronin (my favorite overall, probably), Transporter (the first one, though the 2nd and 3rd had some decent chases), the freeway chase in the 2nd/3rd Matrix movies, and the recent Bond movies had some good ones also.