>From: Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com
>Reply-To: Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com
>To: british-cars@autox.team.net
>CC: jblair@exis.net
>Subject: Jaunty Jalopies
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:34:39 -0700
>
>John wrote:
> >>>>Speaking of all these cars, I watched "Those Magnificent Men in their
>Jaunty Jalopies" last night. I thought it had a little more action and
>humor in it. But what do you expect from a 30 year old memory. Still it
>was very cute. (Now I'm waiting for my copy of "Those Daring Young Men
>in their Flying Machines" to arrive. Anyway, I really couldn't say what
>any of the cars in the movie were. One of the villians drove a car with a
>Mercedees emblem on it.
That was ole' Goldfinger hisself, Gurt Frobe (pronounced Froo-beh)
BTW, the modified Lea Francis driven by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore was
recently auctioned on ebay... with all the erzatz "gear"....
>Bring me The Great Race
Now there's a film... LOT'S of fun. Great cast... Silly plot line...
I love it!
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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