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The race car's shortcut down the mountain

posted 13 years ago by rockcairn69
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Did anyone catch the guy saying "It's only got a handbrake, so watch it." or something like that as they drove off together?

He probably saved both their lives by pushing that car over the cliff, they'd never have made it back down that mountain road in one piece with just a handbrake!!

Funny how you still want logic to prevail in certain situations, even in movies where it's taken as just a matter of fact that long dead sea captains can come back to life.

I love the movies.

"Go back to your oar, Forty One."

[–] ljmcfarland 12 years ago

I wonder what that race car was? I can find no references to it's make. In the movie they say he spent two years building it himself, but it must have existed beforehand, if not simply customized to look different. Can you image what that car would be worth today if it had survived?

[–] highwaystar50 12 years ago

In the time period that this movie takes place in, it would not be unreasonable for this car to have been a "one off" meaning that it was built from scratch. The car builder could have bought the engine and transmission, and the whole chassis for that matter, from a certain car company and fashioned the body himself using the usual body forming tools of the day.
KS

[–] TheDurangoKid 10 years ago

The car was evidently John Cobb's Rapier-Railton built in 1933, although they seem to have changed its body shape somewhat for the film. It is at the Brooklands Museum site.

http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/index.php?/explore/the-24-litre-napier -railton-endurance-record-and-track-racing-car/

[–] nitrateprint 9 years ago

Check the IMCDb as a reference for automobiles in film

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_43899-Pandora-and-the-Flying-Dutchman.html