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Bruce Bowker

Bruce Bowker

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Sort of an opposite of the top 10 cars, what is your saddest car scene on TV or movies? Mine would be in the original Italian Job, if I remember it correctly, when an Aston Martin DB5 or maybe DB6 and an E-Type where shoved ovber the mountainside.
 
Same movie, when the Lamborghini Miura hits the earthmover.
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Same movie, but the end, when the minis get pushed out of the bus.
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-Vanishing Point, when the Kowalski drives the Challenger into the bulldozers
-The Road Warrior, when the Ford V8 Interceptor rigged gas tank blows up
-Most of the original Gone in 60 Seconds: a red 'Cuda, the '73 Mach One and about 50 other (now old) cars get wrecked.
-Grand Prix, when the Ferrari F1 driver dies at the end.
-Le Mans, anytime any of the race cars crash


By the way, in the Italian Job, the Muira was a total wreck that the company had rebuilt for the movie, and in Vanishing Point, the car launched into the bulldozers is actually a Camaro. If you look at the wheels on the burning shell, you can see they are GM rallies.
 
How about in "The War of the Roses" when The Morgan +4 gets mushed by the monster truck?
 
Sad, but funny -

Ferris Bueller and the Ferrari!
 
Vanishing Point & Ferris Bueller (even though it was a kit car, it was a nicve kit car!)
 
I forgot War of the Roses with the Morgan. Yes that might just be more sad than the Italian Job. Close anyhow.

Bruce
 
There's always been some skepticism about the true identity of the greyish car shoved over the cliff in the Italian Job. If you watch the scene in slo mo, the Aston grille doesn't look quite right. And doesn't the hood (bonnet, sorry) open from the other side on an Aston DB4 ragtop? The bulldozer doesn't seem to do a whole lot of body damage to either the Aston or Jag ragtops, either. And the final nail....there are apparently examples of each car running around England with the same registration numbers....

-F.M. Luder (I believe!!!)
 
As for my personal sad scene, the one that affected me the most when I was a lad was-the scene in one of the Herbie movies when Herbie's recovered after running amok in Chinatown, dirty, derilict, and down at heel. Go figure.
-Wm.
 
Mine would have to be 52 Pickup with Roy Scheider and Ann Margret. In that movie, Scheider's character is a rich busines man who drives a 67 EType exactly like mine - it gets blown to pieces at the end of the movie.

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Seeing the by-then-modified E-type fly off the cliff in Harold and Maude.

I also cringe as Flounder's brother's Lincoln is trashed in animal house.
 
How about a TV episode? Tim the Tool man Taylor when he dropped a 30 foot steel beam from a building crane right on top of a Cherried out 55 Chevy Nomad Station Wagon.
 
Bullit when the charger gets blown up.

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Walter
 
Jim Carey Pet Detective (dumb movie) Where he destroys 5 or 6 Land Rovers. The movie set bought a bunch of rolling wrecks from East Coast Rovers in Maine & they pushed & or pulled them off ramps, etc for the scenes in the movies. Still in all it was sad to see these venerable vehicles that could be rebuilt with a spanner & a screwdriver in the outback.

I had a 1973 Series truck at the time & it did aggrevate a bunch of us in the Rover community.

If anyone is intererested here's a link to a photo of my old Landie.

https://home.comcast.net/~ghamilton99/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-1463097.html

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Some Rootes ones:

Maxwell Smart destroying his Tiger on a few different occasions - including the episode where he takes it through the car wash with the top down.

The original Get Carter where the Alpine is bumped off the pier with the girl still locked in the boot.

Michael Crawford as Frank Spencer in the episode where he launches a driving school Imp off the end of a jetty.
 
There's an old Laurel and Hardy movie caled "Busy Bodies". The fellows drive a Ford Model T thru a sawmill and cut it in half (the blade cuts right between them and the car collapses in half). Probably my favorite car-oriented site-gag, but a shame to waste a nice Model T.
 
Anybody remember America's Funniest People (a lame spinoff of Americas Funniest Home Videos, with one of the other Full House people hosting)? In one sketch they did, a pristine RB MGB gets-filled with water, sprayed with dirt, filled with water again, and run over by a bulldozer. I wrote a letter to the producers about that, and to this day will not watch anything with Dave Coulier on it.
-Wm.
 
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