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Old 10-06-2015, 10:40 AM
Mark DiSilvestro Mark DiSilvestro is offline
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Originally Posted by benhogan View Post
working from a fuzzy memory, the parts they yanked was the ignition oil and something else. those nuns really know their stuff

Distributor cap & wires.
As I recall the two staff-cars were a Mercedes and a Horch.
Captain VonTrapp also had a big Mercedes cabriolet - probably something like a 500K.
But the caretaker's car he borrowed to escape to the mountains was a Citroen Traction-Avant. Amazing how his whole family could fit in that.
AH, the magic of Hollywood....
I looked it up awhile back. Though I don't remember the details, the bit with the staff-cars and Nazis searching the convent was also pure Hollywood.

Happy Motoring, Mark
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