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morisani
Italy
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 Posted - 10/06/2008 : 16:44:44
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| In the "Eye of the Needle, a 1981 film based on a Ken Follet novel, directed by Richard Marquand, with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan, you can admire a very beautifull PA or OB at the begining of the film. It has not a luky destiny because driving it too fast in a narrow country road it ends out of the road falling down a bridge. It's a real pity! Besides the headlamps are covered, as required by blackout rules during the Second World War. There is a narrow slit in the cover that allows a small amount of light through. |
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Mike Allison
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/06/2008 : 09:06:46
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Hi, Cars in films?
The M-type in "Reach for the Sky" is that which was owned by Flip Scholten, long before he bought it from Richardsons in the early sixties. 2M3463, a late metal panelled car, now owned by Jacques Dubeil in RSA, so I hop to see it later this year at the Indaba in Port Elizabeth.
There is a PA four seater in "Man in a white suit", which Googie Withers drives in a lot of scenes, with Alec Guinness alongside.
There are many American films which feature T-series cars, of course, but sadly most of these films are in black and white. It repays to see some of the older films, as many have a story line which can be followed: but now I am sounding like a G-O-M, which my wife says I am!
All the best,
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Bob Stringfield
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/06/2008 : 13:43:00
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As a rejected 'Douglas Bader' leaves the RAF in the M-type in 'Reach for the Sky', the Austin 7 in the background is Crumbly the Chummy. A film star in my garage!
The offer of good-quality liquid refreshment for anyone finding a picture of / reference to PA 0603 - APP 186. still stands. |
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leckstein
USA
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Posted - 18/06/2008 : 21:08:47
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I always was under the impression that the "Eye of the Needle" car was a T type. In fact a supplier then located in New Jersey USA claimed to have bought the wreck for parts shortly after the movie was filmed. Am I correct?
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