H.B. Halicki original gone in 60 seconds

[English Jules]

Well i have seen them both, and totally love the first one, seen it hundreds of times-I had only heard of it in the 90s, and some Dutch guy said i should get to see it, as it was amazing...so he sent me the VHS to the UK, and i sent him 3 kits (i can remember what they were, the 72nd Italeri Tornado ECR). It came with Dutch subtitles but i didnt care, i watced it over and over. Then only rewound it to the start of the action from the car park and he pulls off the alarm leads..........oh by god i love that movie, i had seen the remake before that, but i thought it was BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH....and im a car nut

I also love V Point, seen the first again hundreds of times, the remake is ok, watchable with a different twist to the story line..

This is a interesting story. I met a German girl in my city in 05, in a nightclub here. We dated for months, i met her parents when they came over and visited her, i went over a couple of times.....Anyway she back back over some months later, and some gifts (never say you have a gift for them to a german lol). Anyway it was a DVD of V Point-. he didnt know that it was my fave ever movie (i only had a vhs copy from tv i did).....

The reason he sent it me, in GErman it was called Fluckpunkt San Francisco. He was E German, well behind the Iron curtain as a teenager-anything from the west was forbidden or heavily censored. It turned out it was one of the very very few US movies allowed in E Germany....

Later that year, or early next on my next visit i took over a AMT Challenger R/T, with correct license plate from a Revell???? boxing and some tweaks. On a base with the English and German movie name. He told me he displayed it at his work place.

Out of interest (if anyone is still reading this far lol) on my first visit over, summer o5-he took me to a E German military airbase museum....full of MiGs and SUs etc... oh my god i was in heaven!! I too him over a small 72nd model of a Mig 21 F13 i saw that day, then for his birthday the following year a HUGE 32nd scale one, exact copy of the onei stood next too again. THe smaller one is in the museum as he asked me if he could take it.I said yeah and yeah or so later sent me a pic, of him handing over the model, to the museum guy who i met, and actually stood infront of the real plane.

[English Jules]

Oh i have a HH 70's Ford i have been working on for years, to be a unmarked car like in the movie chasing the Mustang :-)

[webestang]

LOVE the first movie.......HATED the 2nd one!

I also liked Toby's "Junkman" and the chase scene from "Gone 2", although it shows the tower falling and it's weird watching that cause that's when he was killed..............

I have all his films on DVD......plus the JL 1/18th scale Eleanor as well as several 1/64 versions.

Edited May 24, 2014 by webestang

[kruleworld]

Here is the real Eleanor.eleanor_b.jpg

Thanks for posting my model

Here's my GAL

[ERIK88]

I have seen both movies, idk the original seems cooler with the actual real car chases and not as faked as the newer version. I believe hearing from someone that was a real stuntman in those chases, and it is the longest car chase ever In a movie .

Edited May 27, 2014 by ERIK88

[Tom Geiger]

Yea I hate remakes. It's like they ran out of good ideas for movies years ago and had to dig back into the past to ruin good memories!

Funny thing, most folks don't know that there was an original The Fast & The Furious, circa 1955. I have it on CD, found it in Walmart years ago for a dollar!

http://youtu.be/gpn93DocVhk

[heinz74]

it's gotta be my age,but i don't really like both of them..

the first one is done in a way that's so unbelievably bad in the acting department...and the actor's voices are waaay off

the second one is even worse..the sort of cars they steal twice in one week in the same area..like a '67 GT500,Hemi Cuda..6 or 7 vintage Ferrari's etc..like everybody has one or two standing around just for the fun of it..

the only thing good is the '67 Fastback in that movie