Miata Mailing List: March 1999, Message #30

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John,
        The cars weren't vintage when the film was made, from memory it was
late 60's, possibly early 70's (where's Leonard Maldin when you need him).

Jeff Gehrig
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Freas <jfreas@earthlink.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@list.miata.net>
Date: Friday, 5 March 1999 10:13
Subject: Re: Italian Job


Previously on Italian Job, Richard Dekker <dekker@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
said...

> Of course, the only tough part of The Italian Job is all of the exotica
> cars that they wreck...starting with the Lamborghini Miura, a couple of
> Jaguar E-types, and an Aston-Martin convertible...along wtih the three
> Coopers in the end too.  I shed a tear every time I watch it.

Could they be replicas?  The only reason I ask is that these days the movie
studios often substitute a good replica for a real car when it's time to
destroy it (Ferris Bueller's friend Cameron did /not/ kick a 1961 Ferrari
California out the back window of the garage), so for now I'm living with
the
perhaps naive belief that they don't just go around trashing irreplaceable
vintage cars.

-John

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John Freas (jfreas@earthlink.net)
Red '90 Base-ish #7690
Birmingham, AL
Team LS1,2, SP, the Gap...
Team dlralt, MRoadster, PBC, Roebuck, Voodoo...
"I have no idea what those dimple things on the windshield frame are for."
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