So...... It'll be a B movie?
couldn't resist.
Peter C
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At 06:31 PM 5/30/2006, Larry Pitts wrote:
>So, I decided to squeeze in an hour or so of the Dixon Car show last
>week before work. I drove my 76 MGB. As Gerard will attest, it's a
>beater, ghetto as I like to call it. I drive the tar out of it, it
>keeps the rift/raft away from it in the parking lots. ( with
>commuting, over a 1000miles on it in the last two weeks). Well, the
>rift/raft found my car. Stuffed under the wiper was a business
>card. So I called the phone number. Seems a movie studio wanted my
>car for a movie they're starting to shoot about a father and son's
>bonding experiences ......, you guessed it, restoring a blue MG
>Roadster. (mines red but I guess that's part of the movie magic). By
>extending the smog laws, Gov. Arnold pretty much sealed the cars
>eventual fate for me last year. A quick negotiation and the studio
>is a proud owner a 76 MGB. It'll be one of three that will be used
>in the movie. Mine will be the "beater" (the studio's word) seen in
>the beginning not the restore beauty at the end.
> Sherman's Way is the title of the flick.
> OK, I just had to share.....
> Looks like financing for round two of the Bugeye!
>
> (lurking) Larry Pitts
> 60 Bug
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