Dan Parslow writes :
> (RGOLEN@umassd.edu writes:
>
> > There is a group in the UK which does an "Italian Job" run down
> > to Italy every year in their Minis and they are planning a
> > 25th anniversary (of the Italian Job) run down to Turin
> > next year.
>
> Do they duplicate the handling with a coupla hundredweight of
> gold bricks in the boot?
It'd make it handle better anyway...
> Funny, that...every time I've seen the film since the first
> viewing when I was about 16, I watch the damage carefully
> and think "...well the Aston's a write off...so's the E-jag
> coupe...hey, the convertible landed on its feet, maybe it
> can be saved!" I never dreamed there were fans out there
> who would know its fate.
In an article in one of the 'Classic' car magazines they detailed
all the famous movie cars, and revealed that the Aston was in fact
an Aston body on a Lancia Flaminia chassis (or something like that).
What I want to know is what about the Muira in the opening sequence?
Was that real or a fake?
> What about the Land Rover 109 with the streamers and "Go England"
> painted on the side? As I recall it was the only car in the film
> that survived...
They used that to tow the truck into the warehouse, didn't they?
I think they left that there, everybody escaping in either the
minis, or the Mini-bus with the sloagans and streamers.
regards,
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