RE: [alfa] Re: General Questions from a new Spider owner...

["Jeffrey M. Vickery" <jmv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Little did I know what can of worms I would open up bringing up that I FELT
like Ferris driving down Lake Shore Drive in my Spider. :-)

To settle this conversation, I refer to the Internet Movie Database 

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/trivia)
"The Car" in the movie was a Ferrari 250GT California Spyder, of which 104
were produced. This version of Ferrari's already famous 250 series was
designed specifically for the American market, featuring only two seats, a
convertible top, and more horsepower than in its standard European trim.

The car parked to the left of the Ferrari in the garage is also an MG, in
this case an MG TC.

The 1961 Ferrari GT250 was a modified MG sports car. The producers received
several angry letters from car enthusiasts who believed the car shown was a
*real* Ferrari and that it was actually wrecked in the film.

...it would be my understanding, given the last note, that the actual
Ferrari wasn't destroyed, but instead a modified MG was destroyed in that
fateful scene.

Hope this helps answer some questions.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
George Graves
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:03 PM
To: alfa@domain.elided
Subject: [alfa] Re: General Questions from a new Spider owner... 

Ferris laments all through the movie that his sister got a car for her 
birthday (if you can call a Fiero a car), and he got a computer and had 
no car. OTOH, the only shot of Cameron's car, IIRC, is a 
through-the-windshield shot of him sitting in it. It always looked to 
me like Mazda R-3, and in fact that's what I always took it as. Are you 
guys SURE that Cameron's car was an Alfetta saloon?


George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
(CA Lic# 'TIPO116')




On Dec 12, 2004, at 11:08 AM, alfa-digest wrote:

> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:43:50 -0500
> From: "Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: [alfa] General Questions from a new Spider owner...
>
>> Jeffrey:
>> You probably already knew; but Ferris B.'s daily driver was
>> an Alfa Romeo Alfetta Sedan.
>
> Not exactly, Ferris didn't have a daily driver, that I could see.  His
> cohort (Cameron?) had an Alfetta Sedan, which Ferris referred to as an
> 'Italian sh*tbox', IIRC.
>
> bs
>
>
George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
(CA Lic# 'TIPO116')
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