I looked forward this past week to watching "The Gumball Rally" on TCM today. Nothing much to the plot, but it has lots of cool cars. I wrote down the wrong time and only saw the last 45 minutes.
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It's a classic. The Ferrari Daytona vs Cobra scenes are top notch. My favorite is, when the two cars exit the old Pan Am building early in the morning and head flat out up Park Avenue .
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Saw those when I was kid. It would be good to see them again.
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SigForum has seldom steered me wrong. This was once. I'm sitting here shaking my head that I watched the whole thing.
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Not a car person? At my age, I think about cars more than about sex...well.... I just didn’t think it was funny. Not even about the “terminal” XK-E.
Oh, and thanks NHTM! That was funny. Even though I’m now reTIREd.
_________________________ “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)"
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Originally posted by sjtill: Not a car person? At my age, I think about cars more than about sex...well.... I just didn’t think it was funny. Not even about the “terminal” XK-E.
Oh, and thanks NHTM! That was funny. Even though I’m now reTIREd.
You mean it was supposed to be funny? What made it great were the sights and sounds of two of my favorite cars, the Ferrari Daytona and the Shelby 427 Cobra.
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