[Fot] On the Beach...

[RACER BUD]

thanks Bill..I forgot that there was any car stuff in there!
Racer Bud..Spitfire # 21...Woohooo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Householder" <trhouse at greenapple.com>
To: <BillDentin at aol.com>; <fot at autox.team.net>
Cc: <donlbrick at mchsi.com>; <rdwismer at mchsi.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] On the Beach...


> on 3/30/08 11:37 AM, BillDentin at aol.com at BillDentin at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Amici...
>>
>> One of our local PBS TV Channels has been showing On The Beach these past 
>> few
>> days.  Classic 1959 Hollywood take on Nevil Shute's post apocalyptic
>> end-of-the-world all out nuclear war movie.  I was in the Navy then, and
>> remember it
>> well.  Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Tony Perkins, and a personal 
>> favorite...Ava
>> Gardner.  I knew Fred Astaire was a 'hot shoe', but I thought it was for
>> dancing.  No dancing here...he's into road racing stuff.  The open road 
>> race
>> scenes
>> are great to watch (although, as usual, Hollywood has taken some artistic
>> license).  There are some disturbing crashes, but lots of great cars from 
>> the
>> period.
>>
>> Bill Dentinger
>
> Here are some sites that cover the race filming..
>
> tom
>
> http://home.san.rr.com/fsheff/pits5.htm
>
> http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_125839-Swallow-Doretti-1954.html
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