It was set in Austria and Captain Von Maus Trap was a captain in the Navy.

How can a country that is land-locked have a navy?

BTW, I thought Liesl was pretty darn hot.

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Before he retired, he was a famous World War I submarine captain in the navy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The empire controlled the port city Trieste (now part of Italy) and the Slovenian and Croatian coasts. Today the Austrian military has two boats in the Danube.













(Geez....the internet sure can make me look smart.)

Does Austria Have a Navy?

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X2 to above. Allied powers of ww1 made the country landlocked as part of war reparations. Coast was given to Italy and Yugoslavia at the time

Von Trap served in the Adriatic

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One of my favorite scenes comes near the end of the movie, where the nuns disable the two Nazi staff cars.

Happy Motoring, Mark

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DrDKW

working from a fuzzy memory, the parts they yanked was the ignition oil and something else. those nuns really know their stuff

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1987 190d 2.5Turbo

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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what do you think happened in the convent AFTER that??? the soldiers probably just walked home scratching their heads wondering what happened. yeah that's it.

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1987 190d 2.5Turbo

I believe the cars were Benzes.

Great movie! Wonder how close to accurate it was?

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I read an interesting article in Road & Track back in the 70s(?) about the author Erich Maria Remarque and his escape to Switzerland during WWII. The article was mostly about a large French (?) auto that was supposedly his escape vehicle and its rediscovery at some remote location. It was a great article, maybe written by Peter Egan, but I think it was before his time, so perhaps Rob Walker.

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Cool! Wonder if I could google and find that article?

Rob walker was an excellent writer too!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I wonder is Liesl was as hot in person as she was in the movie

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