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[TomoHawk]

Did you know that there actually ws a race from New York to Paris, just like in the movie The Great Race?

In 2908, 6 cars left New York on Feb 12, drove to Chicago then San Francisco ( US 30), sailed to Tokyo and then to Vladivostok, then drove through Moscow, Germany, and Belgium to Paris.

An American car (the only American car) from the Thomas Motor Co. ("Thomas Flyer") won the race and it took 169 days. The race was about 22,000 mileson the map, but the odometer on the Thomas Flyer said about 13,350 miles.

Next year, there will be a movie ( a recreation of sorts) for the race's 100th anniversary.

thx

[Mr Camouflage]

In 2908, 6 cars left New York on Feb 12, drove to Chicago then San Francisco ( US 30), sailed to Tokyo and then to Vladivostok, then drove through Moscow, Germany, and Belgium to Paris.

An American ca from the Thomas Motor Co. ("Thomas Flyer") won the race (the only American car) and it took 169 days.

thx

Jumped in your delorean time car and programmed in 2908 did you?

Hit the gas till you reached 88mph?

[TomoHawk]

More like 1908, mate. It'll be interesting to see if the can build "old" cars using modern technology & materials. Then they want the movie to have an old feel & look to it. I wonder where they'll find unpaved roads to drive on; the Aussie outback maybe? remember they dove across the U.S.A in late winter with lots of snow.

BTW, the DeLorean is in hibernation right now.

[hls30.com]

... I wonder where they'll find unpaved roads to drive on; the Aussie outback maybe? remember they dove across the U.S.A in late winter with lots of snow.

BTW, the DeLorean is in hibernation right now.

A couple of inches of dirt and any road looks unpaved-several movies have been filmed here, and that is all it took.

Will

[TomoHawk]

It'l be neat to se how they reproduce the rutted roads and the 2 to 3 feet of snow they had in the Midwest that winter. Canada maybe?

[veritech-z]

You guys will probably jump on me for this one, but the LIVE ACTION Chinese production of Initial D (absolutely NOT the cartoon, that is the worst thing I've ever seen) was actually pretty good. I prefer it to Tokyo Drift (though that doesn't really say much), which I in turn prefer to the previous two F & F movies. "Wraith" with Charlie Sheen wasn't too great, but it did hinge on the cars pretty heavily. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was pretty cool ("smells like chil-dren..."), I loved that movie as a kid. Some trivia: written by Ian Flemming (of James Bond fame), and produced by Roald Dahl, the man credited with inventing the concept of the "gremlin" in a WWII era children's book about RAF fighter pilots which is what inspired the Bugs Bunny episodes with the little guy trying to hit all the bombs with a mallet...

I don't think I'd include Better Off Dead in a list of car movies, but it did have some memorable car moments: When John Cusack pulls up to the light, and the Japanese guy is talking through the loudspeaker to get him to race in a Howard Cosel voice, because it's the only English he knows...and when he rips out his radio because it's only playing love songs...Wasn't there another John Cusack movie where they steal the other guy's ferrari and use it to power their boat in the yacht race? One Crazy Summer or something like that?

Oh, how about She's Out of Control, with Tony Danza, where his daughter gets one of those 80's extreme makeovers, and her boyfriend has to drive Tony Danza's pristine E-type jaguar in a drag race against this jerky guy's Stingray, and it gets hit by a train...Ah, the classics...