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. ;)
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.
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.
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!
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.)
Wow! A chase scene with a ready-made oil slick and an innocent bystander car to cushion the blow and send you on your way. Genius indeed. Shot in Athens, Greece, but from the dialogue at the end this sounds like the West German release. Also starred the lovely Dyan Cannon as Lena.
Can't help thinking about 'Death Proof' and the long string of Chargers and Novas that were snuffed, to make sure the dents acquired along the chase matched perfectly as the scenes went on. But did they use more than one Fiat here?
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Yeah, but how do you get the mullet to look so correct...?
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Nice overpass.
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Thanks Stefan!
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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.
11/28/09
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!
11/28/09
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"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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