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Re: [Healeys] On The Beach

To: Editorgary@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Healeys] On The Beach
From: I Erbs <eyera3@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:50:25 -0800
The links show an oddly painted 100-4 and a 100-6 racing

It's Erbs
DIGS-4 Solutions
Portland, OR

sent from my Droid, please excuse typos and random self corrections because
my phone has It's own ideas about what word I meant to write

On Feb 22, 2011 9:44 PM, <Editorgary@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/22/11 6:31:58 PM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
>> I am thinking about putting something into our local AH magazine on the
>> 1959 film "On The Beach".
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the direction or perhaps has stills from the film
>> showing the race, Austin-
>> Healeys and the like. I seem to recall a website on it, but my search has

>> been less than fruitful.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Patrick Quinn
>> Sydney, Australia
>>
> What I can tell you is that the biggest role in the movie is played by a
> 100-6 driven by Ava Gardner when she squires Gregory Peck around. In one
scene
> they arrive at a country pub late at night with the rain pissing down, top

> and side screens up, and walk in to the bar completely dry. Of course, the

> folks in the pub are sitting around singing, you guessed it, Waltzing
> Matilda.
> In the final scene, she drives to Lands End where she watches the
submarine
> head out to sea. In one of the close-ups, you can clearly see that the car

> has no heater -- there's just an Austin-Healey plate under the dash where
> the heater control normally would be.
> Don't know if there are any Healeys in the race -- which, as everyone
> knows, was an actual club race shot in California, possibly at Ontario.
> G.
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