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joegolden · #61 03-19-2002, 11:29 PM

The beverly hillbillies truck sold on Ebay a couple of months ago. I found it just surfing around. I do remember it being an Oldsmobile. I thought that was strange. I never new they made a truck, er, whatever that thing was!

later

hill · #62 03-20-2002, 12:02 AM

When you work on a DB5 you have to be careful to not put to much pressure on the fender from your legs when you reach in the engine compartment. The aluminum is real soft. But in the Bond movies it was indestructible.

Rackne · #63 03-20-2002, 12:05 AM

Mad Max's car was a Holden (aussie chevy type thing) the motor was built in the US by Phase 4 for a speedboat. The Wieand supercharger was powered by a modified airconditioner clutch and could be turned on or off.

The batmobile was a Lincoln Futura concept car purchased by George Barris after its use as a showcar was over. Several years later it was painted black and accented with red tape. I believe the police light was the only modification. The interior was modified continously adding features be used in the show. The buttons' locations would be changed by the props crew just before the shoot as a joke. This is why Batman always has a dramatic pause before pressing the button to activate the Bat-Whatever because he has no idea where it is!

Frank X. Morris · #64 03-20-2002, 12:12 AM

Howdy All
OK everybody when do we start talking about Night Rider?¿

Rackne · #65 03-20-2002, 12:29 AM

Used to have rousing arguments with a guy from Jamaica about that show. He wanted a car with a Turbo so he could jump over other cars. He was absolutely possitive you just had to press a button and whoosh into the wild blue yonder...ha ha!!

Frank X. Morris · #66 03-20-2002, 12:41 AM

Howdy Rackne,
Need something like JATO bottles to get some real lift

hill · #67 03-20-2002, 12:43 AM

Specs on Chitty

The final product weighed approximately 2 tons, was 17 feet long, and built on a custom made ladder frame chassis. NO detail was spared in her creation. Many traditional forms of car-building were re-employed, and modern technology stepped in to create a vehicle which was both accurate enough to fool veteran car experts when under the microscope of 70mm cinema cameras and hard-wearing enough to withstand everything from driving in sand to driving on cobbled streets and down stair-cases.

The wheels were moulded in alloy to replicate the timber wheels which would have been true to the period. The boat deck was of red and white cedar and built by boat-builders in Windsor, and the array of brass fittings were obtained from Edwardian wrecks. What couldn't be obtained was faithfully and accurately re-created. The alloy dashboard plate was from a British World War
I fighter plane.

All of this was built around a modern Ford V6 engine with Automatic transmission.

Chitty rolled out of the workshop in June 1967 and was registered with the number plate GEN 11 given to her by Ian Fleming in his novel. (In the novel, the number plate GEN11 had significance in that if you read the number ones as " i's", it spelled out the latin word "genii" meaning magical person or being.)

Because of the high level of detail on the vehicle and the rough treatment it was about to encounter during film-making, a second "near-identical" vehicle was constructed as a stand-in for the more dangerous scenes and was also used for the "in studio" shots.

Another "no-brass / no-engine" dummy version was built to be dunked in sea-water, and another slightly different car was also built for trailer work and to be used as a stand in. Both of these are now on display in England. Another light weight fibreglass shell was mounted on two "disguised" speedboats for sequences "at sea"
and was actually seaworthy. The other vehicles all bore GEN11 but this was purely cosmetic. Only "the original" was registered with this plate and used in the road-driving sequences.

Frank X. Morris · #68 03-20-2002, 12:57 AM

Howdy Hill,
It still amazes me all the work that goes into film production that is behind the camera. Hill, nice piece of research!¡ Or one hell of a memory

#69 03-20-2002, 04:12 AM

That Guy.

Sad i know about the Valiant, but when you have been deprived of such cars here in the UK then anything big and american from the 50's, 60's or 70's would be a fun drive.

We have to put up with fairly small cars to poodle about it because of the price of petrol. I mean for example, for a run of the mill family car, the biggest engine used to be in a Ford Granada, this was a 2.9 injected V6...they have been phased out now because of the running costs. In comparison, a 2.9 V6 must seem small to you!

Anyway on to Knight Rider, what a quality show that was, used to have me gripped on a Thursday night at 8.30 on ITV when i was a kid!!!

The question must be asked...what car did Mr Knight drive?

el presidente · #70 03-20-2002, 10:27 AM

As Norm McDonald used to say on SNL....."Germans Love David Hasselhoff":p

1982 Pontiac Trans Am, I think....named KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand)

Frank X. Morris · #71 03-20-2002, 01:28 PM

Howdy Matt
They used to shoot road scenes out in the desert near my house and one day a 2nd production crew was out here with one of the cars and they let me sit in it

The driver would wear a wig to look a little like David and was told not to look into the camera. duh and of course he would. This driver wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer

joegolden · #72 03-20-2002, 11:26 PM

KNIGHT RIDER! That show was great! WoooWooo, WooWoo goes the T/A. I never could figure out how to drive a car at speed up the ramp of that truck going 50mph??!!

What about Love Boat? Oh yeah no cars.

"Let it flow, it flows back to you"

Later

Frank X. Morris · #73 03-20-2002, 11:42 PM

Howdy Joe,
Many years ago I saw a show and they were explaining how tricky it was going up and down the ramp and wouldn't you know I can't remember what they said

Must be a senior moment)

hill · #74 03-21-2002, 12:36 AM

The car in question was a 1921 Oldsmobile touring car. That usually means covertible top with two full sets of seats behind the driver and navigator. George Barris of Batmobile fame etc... added the park bench seat and other accoutrements.

#75 03-21-2002, 08:37 AM

The ramp business, its a lot easier in a rear wheel drive car as you can imagine.

So how the hell they did it with the 3 Mini's in the Italian Job is a mystery!!! as they are Front wheel drive!

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