Does anyone remember this movie with Jimmy Mcnichol (Christie's brother), staring a turbocharged first gen RX-7?
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Jan. 10, 2010 2:08 p.m. 4eyes Reader
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Jan. 10, 2010 4:55 p.m. JFX001 Dork
No, but I do remember him starring in a short, short lived series (at least I think that it was a series) circa 1980 called "California Fever"...driving a multi-hued Camaro. He had a friend that drove something called the "gross-mobile".
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Jan. 10, 2010 6:58 p.m. ddavidv UltraDork
Maybe it was a (can't believe I'm saying this...) TR-7? Smokey Bites the Dust 1st car chase I'm not sure I can stomach watching the rest of them to find out for sure. Baaaad movie.
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Jan. 10, 2010 7:09 p.m. Mental UberDork
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Jan. 10, 2010 7:37 p.m. Jensenman MegaDork
Wonder how many head gaskets and water pumps that TR7 went through during that opening sequence?
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Jan. 10, 2010 7:38 p.m. ddavidv UltraDork
RX-7 is in "chase 3". It's a Mk1 version with the roof cut off(?).
Can't believe I'm watching these...
Useless Trivia: the yellow and black Chevy pickup was also in "Grand Theft Auto".
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Jan. 10, 2010 8:12 p.m. Jensenman MegaDork
The car in the parking lot in the first part of Chase 3: a Lotus Elite.
The RX7 'vert has vent windows! That is a cool looking car. Judging by the dash and shifter it's an SA.
I know where 3 or 4 more 1st gens are languishing...
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Jan. 10, 2010 11:20 p.m. BAMF Reader
I'm amazed at how good that RX-7 looked with the roof lopped off.
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Jan. 10, 2010 11:43 p.m. Mental UberDork
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Jan. 10, 2010 11:51 p.m. P71 SuperDork
It's an SA22C (79-80) but remember the interior is identical through 83. That's one of those pseudo-factory 'Vert's I obsess over. That car is truly the Miata's pappy.
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Jan. 10, 2010 11:52 p.m. friedgreencorrado Dork
Mental wrote:
Ward's on the case! Here's a thread from the Vintage Rotaries board from 07, evidently the car was for sale.
http://www.vintagerotaries.org/index.php?showtopic=74&st=20
Evidently, built in the US by some shop called Ultima Pacific Avatar back when the cars were new. Also found a thread on rx7club.com where someone found one (pix about half-way down).
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=709521
Evidently one of 126 modified.
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Jan. 11, 2010 9:50 a.m. ansonivan Reader
ddavidv wrote:
Maybe it was a (can't believe I'm saying this...) TR-7? Smokey Bites the Dust 1st car chase I'm not sure I can stomach watching the rest of them to find out for sure. Baaaad movie.
So bad it's almost good. :47 main chase cop has a visor-mounted whiskey bottle... because drinking from a sun visor is much more discrete than tipping a flask. At 3:08 hysterical woman with huge baby-trays flings a jack-o-lantern onto the cop car causing it to immediately wreck.
I think the show has potential in a mystery science theater kind of way.
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Jan. 11, 2010 2:24 p.m. 4eyes Reader
It was made to cash in on the Smokey and the Bandit fever, that swept the country I'm sure. But as bad car movies go, it's entertaining.
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Jan. 11, 2010 8:25 p.m. CGLockRacer Reader
hmm...i know nothing about the movie, but the rx-7 vert almost looks like a miata with a rx-7 facia.
