"Viva Las Vegas"
I saw one of the cars from the movie in a LV junkyard about 10 years ago while
visiting a buddy who lived there at the time. -He had a Jaguar XJ, and a TR4A,
-and was thrilled by the junk yard scrounging that could be done in the rust
free NV environment.
I found about 5-6 Healeys in various states of cannibalization, --and the
fairly complete FL Green Healey, with the Racing numbers on the side. The
"junk yard guy" would not allow removal of any of that car's parts, since it
was a "Viva Las Vegas Car" and I think he thought some day a big offer would
come along.
Anyway, several desert spiders and a lazy rattlesnake later, I did get some
good chrome bits and a hand brake off the other cars, and hauled them back to
RI.
Dave J.
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: Brashear, Jack, N ; healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Healey 100S in "On the Beach" Movies
I remember that vapid movie. Out in the desert with a huge mix of
cars.
Don't remember the name of the picture but there were the mandatory
crashes
and the boufant blonde. Deternined men. Terrible driving.
The dialog was even worse.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: Brashear, Jack, N
To: John Rued ; Freese, Ken ; Tom Householder ; Dave Murphy
Cc: wilko2@cox.net ; healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:33 AM
Subject: RE: Healey 100S in "On the Beach" Movies
Seems like there was an AH in an open (read public highway) road race
scene in an old Elvis flick that took place in Nevada (I think). It
was
a pretty preposterous scene with big beastly cars and little open
wheelers like Formula Vees all packed together...anyone else remember
this??
Jack
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