If you like cheesy old car movies, you need to buy a dish so you can get
Speedvision. Every Saturday night (and most Sunday nights during the
northern hemisphere's off-season) they show a different car flick. The
scripts and acting are usually terrible, but you get to see footage of some
neat old cars on tracks that were turned into shopping malls before I was
born.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TR [SMTP:rodgers356@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 1998 9:10 AM
> To: vintage
> Subject: Race car movie
>
> Sorry if this isn't applicable to more than a few, but I don't know if
> certain cable TV channels show the same thing nationwide...
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> Anyway, late tonight on AMC (in Seattle, at least) is an old racing movie
> "Johnny Dark", circa 1954. The story is about a border to border sports
> car
> race, from Canada to Mexico, and runs through the Western US, Highway 97,
> I
> think. As I remember the acting/plot is hokey and the racing scenes not
> realistic, but it's worth it to see the cars. Tape it.
>
> Ted Rodgers
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