Bill:
I got mine from Movies Unlimited moviesunlimited.com
And I am all over that Girstown lobby card! The hand-tinted one showing the
Chicken Drag.
What are those concrete water ditches with the slanted sides for anyway? I
assume they are around Hollywood somewhere? They were in some other
car-crazed teen movies.
John Herrera
>From: "Bill Sohl" <billsohl@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: "Bill Sohl" <billsohl@mindspring.com>
>To: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>
>CC: "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: TRs in the Cinema
>Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:08:15 -0500
>
>John,
>
>Do you know if
>the "Girlstown" movie available on tape or DVD?
>
>Cheers,
>Bill Sohl
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>
>To: <fot@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:33 PM
>Subject: TRs in the Cinema
>.....
> > 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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