Amici:
Pardon me, but I have to weigh in on this one. Being in Maryland, I well
remember Start Your Engines. I bought parts from them. It was nice having a
parts place near enough to visit. I think it was in Beltsville.
I, too, am a fan of Diner, but no discussion of TRs in movies would be
complete without a mention of B movie Girlstown starring Mel Torme playing a
teen but looking about 35, Mamie Van Doren, I forget her name but she was
the ol;der daughter in Father Knows Best, and a rather tatty Long Door TR2!
Singing gigs were hard to come by for Mel, so he took the part reluctantly.
The long door is Mel's ride. He is in a sports car version of a motorcycle
gang. They call themselves the Jags. It has a great Chicken Drag (hands off
the steering wheel) scene between Mel in the 2 and a guy in a Hot Rod in one
of those concrete drainage ditch things like in American Graffiti or some
such movie. And did I mention Mamie Van Doren is in it?
Also Daddy-O which includes a race between a small mouth 3 and I think a
T-bird. The small mouth magically becomes a wide mouth halfway through the
race, like those movie airplanes that suddenly become the Capellis Transport
just before they crash.
I've said my piece and I'll shut up for a while.
John Herrera
I've been accused of having too much time on my hands.
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