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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    12/06/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    What, no credits for makeup and hair...? ;-)
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    Image of skitter skitter
    12/06/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: If you're serious about your hair, it takes hours to make it look like you've just rolled out of a motel bed.
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    skitter was starred skitter was unstarred
    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    12/06/09

    @skitter:
    Yeah, but how do you get the mullet to look so correct...?
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    Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing was starred Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing was unstarred
    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    Wow. I'm guessing the moral of the story is pay your long distance bill on time, eh?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    OK, we have to add this to the Murilee Martin Library Archives and get it indexed.
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    Novaload was starred Novaload was unstarred
    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    This film gets 100% at Jalopnik Tomatoes. Right up there with Grand Prix and LeMans.
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    Pretty good film, Mr. Martin. I watched it twice because I like '56 Chevys. Please don't resume your filmmaking career. For one reason, you do such an awesome job as our Weakened Editor. ;)
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    Image of chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    Ma'am, there is no reason you could not start again, on a better medium... with your copious amounts of free time... i'd watch.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/05/09

    In reply to My Short-Lived Filmmaking Career Made Z-List Stars Of '56 Chevy, '79 Granada
    You don't want the Green Death (as opposed to all the other colors, which you do want), and you don't want to mess with the Phone Police.

    Nice overpass.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    12/05/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: That's the Nimitz Freeway going over 5th Avenue in Oakland. Looks about the same today.
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    Edited by Murilee Martin at 12/05/09 1:18 PM Murilee Martin was starred Murilee Martin was unstarred
    Image of EdinaSpano EdinaSpano
    11/29/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    The stunt driver in the Fiat is Remy Julienne. He actually was featured in Fiat 124 ads in print and on TV in about 1971, extolling the virtues of the 124 and how it was his favorite "work"vehicle.
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    Novaload promoted this comment Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet approved this comment EdinaSpano was starred EdinaSpano was unstarred
    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/29/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    Run little Fiat, run! So. Much. Win. OMG.
    Thanks Stefan!
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    Image of superveloce superveloce
    11/28/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    That tattered Rekord made around 60 hp when new, and the newer Fiat, depending on the engine, had 100-125 hp(which isn't bad for a 1600 cc 2 valve engine in 1971). The Fiat would have smoked the Opel, so I'm guessing JP Belmondo was not that great of a driver.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment superveloce was starred superveloce was unstarred
    Image of EuropaBambaataa EuropaBambaataa
    11/29/09

    @superveloce: 125hp in Group 2 preparation. The standard model had 95 hp, but if that car is an older model it still features the 1.4 with 80hp.

    The Rekord had a 60hp engine in the base model, but it was also available with a 75hp 1.7 and a 90hp 1.9, with the additional bonus of extra torque.

    And you try smoking another driver in the crowded streets of Athens. I'm surprised both of them didn't get caught in traffic.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment EuropaBambaataa was starred EuropaBambaataa was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/28/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    So this is period Dodge Dart vs. Ford Fairmont.

    I'm good with that.

    I like how, to this day, movies for US consumption show idiots slamming into each other, side-to-side, repeatedly, yet these guys have mastered the PIT maneuver quite well.

    I've gotta find some electric Eyetalian horns like that. Used to have a small air horn set, but I've never liked how the compressor is sensitive to moisture/grime/heat.

    Mercedes, and likely other Euro makes, has, over there, a dash switch for a "city" horn and a "country" horn. Hell, I just want two so I can freak people out who aren't paying attention.

    I'm gonna wire mine up with Italian-style horns on "country", and the four-tone Cadillac horns I've collected on "city".

    I really like finding gray-market cars in the junkyard. They have all kinda neat stuff...like vacuum-powered headlight aim adjustment.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/28/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    Awesome--they didn't miss a trick.
    The Wreckord looks amazingly like an old Falcon but you can tell Omar wasn't really trying that hard to stop the Fiat. Which did have magic axles--you can tell after that one bad curb hit by the stadium, they did a cut away, there was a lot of odd smoke.
    And I think we now have definitive proof where Caddy got their Euro-ad with the candles blowing out.
    Great piece of video! Thanks!
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    Image of alexander_the_car_salamander alexander_the_car_salamander
    11/28/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    Just for the Rekord that was awesome! It was the best combined 124 horsepower I've ever seen.
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    Novaload promoted this comment alexander_the_car_salamander was starred alexander_the_car_salamander was unstarred
    Image of reed001 reed001
    11/28/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    The greatest chase scene of all time is the original Pink Panther with David Niven. The end is one of the funniest bits of slapstick on the screen.
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    Novaload promoted this comment reed001 was starred reed001 was unstarred
    Image of flyingstitch flyingstitch
    11/28/09

    @reed001: +1. The old guy watching it all steals the whole scene.
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    Novaload promoted this comment flyingstitch was starred flyingstitch was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/29/09

    @flyingstitch: Well, that plus the increasing absurdity of the chase, the costumes, the cars and of course the pay off at the fountain.
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    Image of duurtlang duurtlang
    11/28/09

    In reply to What Could Be Better Than A Mustang vs Charger Chase? Opel Rekord vs Fiat 124!
    Great scene. And that dubbed German dialog in the end is pure genius.

    "Didn't you know there was a speed limit here?" "I'm sorry. I'm a foreigner"
    (there might be some slight nuance differences. My German is rusty. And not just the car.)
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by duurtlang at 11/28/09 5:46 PM duurtlang was starred duurtlang was unstarred
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